Examples of Questions for Which Portfolio Artifacts Can Enhance the Stories You Tell in Response

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With today's entry we begin a series showing how a portfolio can be used to tell stories in response to specific job-interview questions.

In response to the types of questions below, show examples of school projects with real-world applications, as well as other evidence of student success (transcripts, awards, descriptions of extracurricular activities, etc).


  • How has your college experience prepared you for this career?

  • How will the academic program and coursework you've taken benefit your career?

  • Which college classes or subjects did you like best? Why?

  • Are you the type of student for whom conducting independent research has been a positive experience?

  • Describe the type of professor that has created the most beneficial learning experience for you.

  • Do you think that your grades are an indication of your academic achievement?

  • Give an example of how you applied knowledge from previous coursework to a project in another class.

  • What are your standards of success in school? What have you done to meet these standards?


Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling that Propels Careers, Quintessential Careers Press, ISBN-10: 1-934689-00-9. Find out the ways you can own the entire book.

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This blog serializes the book, Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling that Propels Careers. It is a blog-within-a-blog, and its parent blog is A Storied Career.

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