Mock Interviewing

A practice interview can help you identify where you may already be strong in interviewing, as well as helping detect areas where your presentation could be improved. These fifty-minute sessions, with career counselors in the interviewer role, are recorded and then played back, as a the counselor offers feedback.

Mock interviews are digitally recorded on a computer. If you would like a copy of your interview please bring either a USB drive or blank CD-R. The recordings are approximately 20MB in size and are stored in the Windows video format (*.wmv). Due to their large size they cannot be E-mailed.

To schedule an appointment in either St. Paul or Minneapolis, please call (651) 962-6761.

To make the most of your interview, we suggest:

• Bringing a résumé indicating your internship or job target.
• Coming dressed as if going to an actual job interview.
• Consider interviewer questions that you're concerned about, or have found yourself struggling with in real interviews. Mention these to the career coach, so these questions can be worked into the mock interview and your responses critiqued during the video playback.
• Come prepared with questions you have for an employer.
• Reading through the Interviewing Basics handout and visiting assorted links from the Career Development Model should also help you get the most from your mock interview experience.
• If you'd like to keep your videotape, please bring a blank one to the mock interview.

Interview Stream

It may be suggested that you prepare for the mock interview or practice what you learned in your mock interview by using a product called Interview Stream. Interview Stream is an online practice interviewing program freely available to University of St. Thomas students. Though a great tool for repeating practice interviews at your own pace, Interview Stream should not be used as a replacement to having live feedback obtained from an in-person mock interview with a counselor.