{"id":7127,"date":"2018-09-11T13:15:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=7127"},"modified":"2018-09-11T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:15:54","slug":"how-to-make-small-talk-before-your-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/how-to-make-small-talk-before-your-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Small Talk Before Your Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<a id=\"ContentPlaceHolderDefault_SectionContent_AuthorLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\/contributors-network\/natalie-fisher\/\">Natalie Fisher<\/a>\u00a0| September 10, 2018<br \/>\nRe-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\">Vault<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve practiced your answers, prepared questions you want to ask, and feel confident about going into your interview with a sense of direction. The only thing that\u2019s got your nerves a little off balance is anticipating the small talk pre-interview\u2014which interviewers often use to gauge your personality and get a sense of who you are, unrehearsed. In just a few short sentences of small talk, your politeness, positivity, and overall mindset can all be revealed.<\/p>\n<p>If the prospect of small talk before your interview makes you anxious, that\u2019s normal. It can be hard to know what to say and how to make this process smooth and less awkward. The good thing is there are ways to prepare for this initial opening of the interview so that you can walk in feeling ready to meet and greet from a confident, comfortable place.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\/blog\/interviewing\/how-to-make-small-talk-before-your-interview?&amp;utm_source=WCU_Letter&amp;utm_medium=Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=09_11_2018&amp;referer_ID=7778&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=101910\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/a> for] some tips to help you leverage this opportunity and leave an even stronger impression for your interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Natalie Fisher\u00a0| September 10, 2018 Re-posted from Vault You\u2019ve practiced your answers, prepared questions you want to ask, and feel confident about going into your interview with a sense of direction. The only thing that\u2019s got your nerves a little off balance is anticipating the small talk pre-interview\u2014which interviewers often use to gauge your personality&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":847,"featured_media":7128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"How to Make Small Talk Before Your Interview","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[84,37,1994],"class_list":["post-7127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-info-advice","tag-interview","tag-job-search-2","tag-small-talk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2018\/09\/Womanlaughing.jpg?fit=219%2C145&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-1QX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7129,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127\/revisions\/7129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}