POST: Week 4, Day 2, Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Today we started out with two behavioral questions:

1. How do you typically deal with conflict? Give an example. (Strategy: Briefly describe a situation, make the conflict clear, explain how you dealt with it -- and show your strategy. This is essentially a strategy question. The best answer is one that makes the process of dealing with conflict clear.)
2. Tell me about a time when you had to make a difficult decision. (Strategy: Talk about something like your decision to come to the US to study. Make the decision clear. Again, focus on your decision-making strategy. HOW did you make the decision? Be sure to indicate that you were satisfied with the decision.)

We also talked about more problems with the drafts. Here are some pointers I reminded everyone of:

1. Use sub-headings (such as "overview").
2. Do not indent paragraphs.
3. Double space BETWEEN paragraphs.
4. Restrict yourself to one topic per paragraph (e.g. don't put information about electricity and communications in the same paragraph). It is better to write several small paragraphs than one large one.
5. Introduce each paragraph with a short topic sentence that makes the point of the paragraph.

I'll continue to work on these and send them to you.