Career Center

Students can practice mock interviews over and over again. They experience different types of questions by interviewers, view sample responses, and find out why various types of questions are asked. And the best tool is the ability for students to record their own responses to the questions then view and critique their responses. Students can not only listen to their responses but also see their posture, body language and eye content – all important components and confidence builders of interviewing.

Easy Set Up:

• Go to http://www.perfectinterview.com/regionx
• Click “Create Account”
• Fill in requested information.
• Check “I have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions”
• Click “Create My Account”
• Check your email to obtain your username, password and website location to login.
• Get started!

System Requirements: For best results use a computer with a web camera and microphone. Perfect Interview is best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer.

This service is provided through a regional Perkins mini-grant from a collaboration of seven California Community College Career Centers in Region X.

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• New Magazine - Careers & the Disabled - now available in the LRC - Career Collection on the first floor.
• The G quotient : why gay executives are excelling as leaders, and what every manager needs to know

The G Quotient identifies a management phenomenon that will forever change the way people view their professional roles in the workplace. Based on a landmark (and bound to be controversial) five-year study by Kirk Snyder, one of the nation's leading career and workplace experts at USC, The G Quotient redefines the very meaning of successful leadership for all managers. In the last ten years, across-the-board levels of employee satisfaction, workplace morale, and job engagement have plummeted in the U.S. But while many businesses are baffled by this steady decline, Snyder's research has uncovered a unique exception. Organizations and working units under the leadership of white-collar gay males are collectively experiencing 25-30 per cent higher levels of employee satisfaction, workplace morale, and job engagement-in addition to reporting greater employer loyalty and individual productivity. Empowered workers are responding to a new type of organizational leader. The term 'G Quotient' is an original descriptor identified by the author, which represents seven unique leadership principles that explain why organizations and working units under the management of white-collar gay males are more harmonious, more interconnected, and more successful. The G Quotient identifies and explores these seven unique principles that all managers, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, can use to become the leader everyone wants to work for and, even more importantly, hire.