MOCK INTERVIEW RUBRIC
Excellent interview: You Average interview: You Interviewing skills need
should get a job offer! could get called back significant improvement:
but it is not certain. You would not get this job.
First Your appearance is You look nice but you do Your attire is not
Impressions professional—you are not wear a suit. Your professional—you wear jeans
wearing a business suit. greeting is appropriate or shorts to this interview.
You greet and shake hands but you forget to shake You do not greet or shake
with your interviewer hands with your hands when you meet your
correctly. Your interviewer. Your interviewer. Your
conversation is conversation is conversation is not energetic.
enthusiastic and engaging. enthusiastic and
engaging.
Interview Content You are knowledgeable You are knowledgeable You are not knowledgeable
about the organization and about the position but about the position or
position you are not the organization you organization you are
interviewing for. You are interviewing with. interviewing with. You are
display poise and You display adequate not confident in answering
confidence. You relate your confidence in your questions about yourself. You
skills to the job very well. answers. You state your do not state the skills you
skills but do not have to do this job.
adequately relate them to
the job.
Interview Skills/ You have excellent eye You have adequate eye You look at the floor or
Techniques contact with your contact with your ceiling when speaking. Your
interviewer without interviewer. Your grammar and language are
staring. Your language and language and grammar not appropriate. You say “um”
grammar is appropriate. are adequate. You say or “and” too many times. You
You do not use “um” or “um” or “and” a few times, talk too fast or too slow.
“and.” You speak at the but not enough to disrupt
right speed. the interview. You talk a
little too fast or too slow.
Closing You successfully convey You convey some interest You do not show any interest
your interest in this in the position. You are in this position. You do not
position. You ask not prepared to ask any ask any questions. You do not
appropriate questions to questions. You thank the thank the interviewer.
the interviewer. You thank interviewer.
the interviewer.
Winter, Mick. How to Talk New Age. 28 July 2003.
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