STUDIES HAVE SHOWN the importance of employment interview preparation in boosting the confidence and performance of students and jobseekers when they interview. This article reviews several techniques for preparing students for mock job interviews and, hence, actual job interviews.
Building on previous research by the first author, this paper presents data from students who experienced an innovative method of team development based on a concept coined "Speed Teaming." PURPOSE he purpose of this study was to review existing methods for placing students into work teams and experiment with an innovative method that uses student input to build the teams while giving the professor ultimate control in the final groupings, forming a hybrid new category of team selection.
For a number of years, businesspeople have been telling marketing educators and business school deans that companies need college graduates with good communication skills who can analyze complex problems. At the same time, as knowledge in marketing and business grows at a rapid rate, business school faculty face the challenge of incorporating more content-related material into already jammed course calendars. This article's premise is that the meaningful application of writing in marketing classes-utilizing the philosophy of Writing across the Curriculum-can achieve all of these objectives and challenges without overly increasing the burden on faculty.
Yunxia Zhu is a senior lecturer at the UQ Business School. She has gained an international reputation in Chinese business communication, cross-cultural management, and organizational and business discourse analysis. She has published extensively in communication and management journals and serves on the editorial boards of Discourse and Communication, the Journal of Business Communication, and Business Communication Quarterly.
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