The Innerview

The Innerview covers everything a college student needs to do before their first big interview for an internship or full-time job to help them answer the questions.

• What do I want to be when I grow up?
• What’s the purpose of work to me?
• What am I passionate about and what careers align with my passions?
• How do I use my time in college to prepare for my desired career?

The clearer an individual is on these questions before going into an interview, the more likely it is that they will ace their interview.

Course Objectives

The goal of the course is to help students prepare to land their D.R.E.A.M. job before graduation. To D.R.E.A.M. means to have your Desired Relationships Employment And Money. In order to achieve their D.R.E.A.M., students will create their D.R.E.A.M. Catchers which include their resume 1.0, resume 2.0, cover letter, interview answers, personal board of directors, website or blog, and updated LinkedIn.com and Facebook.com profiles.

More On Innerviewing

Innerviewing is an internal process and defines communication between you and your authentic self. It requires knowing who you are, what you want, and why. Interviewing is an external process and defines the exchange where two parties are interacting to get to know each other better. It requires that both the company and the individual innerview to explore what they truly want so that they can determine if there is interest. Great interviewing is preceded by great innerviewing—your discoveries about yourself, your desired career path, and the company prior to the interview will be captured in your résumé, cover letter, 30 second pitch, and interview answers.

Interviewing is natural after you’ve properly innerviewed, but innerview isn’t taught anywhere—instead of self-discovery being a direct result of higher education, it’s oftentimes a derivative. The world has shifted drastically and in many ways college hasn’t caught up. Therefore, there are some challenges that come along with this huge shift in your life. A good GPA and good personality used to be all you needed to get a good job, but today that isn’t the case because a GPA is only a correlative measurement for how hard of a worker you are. In many instances it measure how much you think within the box rather than how much you think outside of it. In the box thinking has led us into the economy we are in today where unemployment rates hover around 10% and only 25% of college graduates are graduating with a job in hand. Out of the box thinking is the only thing that is going to get us out of this mess and revive our hopes and dreams.