In this lecture, first, we have a mock job interview and go over the most frequently asked job interview questions. The next workshop is titled "Celebrating Your Weirdness". Weirdness is something that you need to cherish, nurture, and celebrate in yourself. We go through a lot of examples and exercises in this pursuit. The last workshop is titled "Celebrating Your Failures". You need to fail often and sooner, rather than later. Each failure is a learning opportunity. You can learn through failures. Failures should not be traumatized, they need to be celebrated and reflected upon. What matters is you turn these failures into learning opportunities and lessons.

1. University of East Anglia
Norwich Business School
Management Skills and
Personal Development
NBS-7031X
Lecture 10
13 May 2021
Dr. Fahri Karakas
F.Karakas@uea.ac.uk

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 Hackathon
 Preparing for Job Interviews – Mock Interview
 Celebrating/Embracing ‘Weird’ Workshop
 Celebrating/Embracing ‘Failures’ Workshop

3. Simulated Job Interviews:
Tell Your Story
Learning Adventure

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Tell me about yourself.
Why do you want to work here?
Why should we hire you? Why do you think you are a good candidate?
What is your greatest strength?
What is your biggest weakness?
Give me an example of a difficult situation at work. How did you deal with
this situation?
Tell me about an achievement you are proud of.
Where do you see yourself in five years?

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 CLUSTERS OF TWO
 One of you will be recruiter; and the
other one will be job applicant.
 Ask your interviewees selected questions
 Each job applicant responds quickly

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Tell me about yourself.
Why do you want to work here?
Why should we hire you? Why do you think you are a good candidate?
What is your greatest strength?
What is your biggest weakness?
Give me an example of a difficult situation at work. How did you deal with
this situation?
Tell me about an achievement you are proud of.
Where do you see yourself in five years?

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 CLUSTERS OF TWO
 Now, you will exchange the roles.
The recruiter will be the job
applicant.
 The job applicant will be the
recruiter now.
 Repeat the questions

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Tell me about yourself.
Why do you want to work here?
Why should we hire you? Why do you think you are a good candidate?
What is your greatest strength?
What is your biggest weakness?
Give me an example of a difficult situation at work. How did you deal with
this situation?
Tell me about an achievement you are proud of.
Where do you see yourself in five years?

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 CLUSTERS OF TWO
 Now, please provide constructive feedback to each
other.
 Everyone gives feedback quickly in less than 1 minute.
 After finishing the exercise and sharing the
feedback/suggestions, write down a POP CORN for the
others in your team.
◦ A pop corn is something you write on a piece of paper for that
person to keep as a memory.
◦ It should be something positive, memorable, constructive.

12. 17/05/2021 Welcome to UEA 12
UEA Students:
Don’t be Lazy – Job Interviews

13. Embracing ‘WEIRD’
Workshop
Celebrating What
Makes You Weird

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 Write down your obsessions
◦ Hobbies
◦ Curiosities
◦ Passion
 What can you do about these to bring
something new and fresh to the world?
◦ Please think about this question at home.

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CELEBRATING YOUR
OWN ‘WEIRDNESS’
Make a list of 6 things that
make you “weird”.
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Do you nourish or restrict
these in your daily life?

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DISCUSS in CLUSTERS OF THREE
Share your weird lists quickly.
Who is the most weird among you?
Celebrate that person!
Try to find a film or fiction character that
would resemble your friend.
Write pop corns for one another.

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33. Failure Workshop
Celebrating
Failures and
Turning them into
Learning

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Jack Ma – founder of Alibaba - is a legend in business.

41.  My current academic CV is about 10 pages.
 It only lists my accomplishments.
 Nobody sees my failures.

42. A small sample of my failures include:
• I was rejected by all PhD programmes after my undergraduate.
• I applied for more than 100 academic jobs when I finished PhD and it was the
time of economic crises – got rejected by all.
• I have got at least 120 rejections from academic journals
(I have around 30 publications i.e. successes)
• I do have many spectacular fails. I have even put a kettle on the oven and it
melted down

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Some
inspiration
from
people
who got
lost and
then
found
their way

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 Remember and write down in bullet points
 What did you learn from them?

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Try to choose failures from the following
domains (if you have any):
1. Entrepreneurship, Business, or Career (try not to limit yourself
to academic or school failures)
2.Creativity and Arts (music, visual arts, film, theatre, crafts,
dance, writing, design...)
Something happened or it did not work.
Did you have to change your approach (adapt) or did you drop it
entirely?
Assignment: Please do this exercise at home. About each field/domain, recount your failures or
experimentation. Then think: How will you go forward? How can you go back and improve?
Identify a few small actions in each domain that you can implement in your daily life.

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Select and share one of your failures with the
group. Share what you have learned as a
result.
After each of your colleagues finishes sharing failure experience
and learning, congratulate that colleague for that failure and
learning.
Write an encouraging and wise message for him or her that will
inspire courage, recovery, learning, and progress.

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Thank you