MPA Students,

As the semester begins, so too does spring recruiting. Let MPA Career Management help you with your recruiting efforts by inviting you to participate in the upcoming MPA Virtual Mock Interview Day on Tuesday, February 2, 2021.   Registration is now open in RecruitMcCombs.

Feedback from past Mock Interview Day student participants:

“Low risk, high reward. Very good learning experience.”

“Dot it! It’s the easiest and best way to gain experience.”

“Schedule as many as you can. With this format it is very easy to do back-to-back interviews. I did two, now I wish I had done more.”

“It’s such an invaluable resource that everyone should take advantage of. It really helps to alleviate the stress associated with an future real interviews.”

“The best way to practice for recruiting!”

 

 

WHY IT WORKS

  • Practice. Real interviewers will use real interview questions to help you simulate their real interview.
  • Instant Advice. Interviewers will give you verbal advice immediately after your interview so that you can continue to work on your skills. In addition, they will complete a comprehensive feedback sruvey, which MPA Career Management will provide to you.
  • Early Advantage. In the past, some students met their real interviewer through their mock interviews. A comfort level exists when you meet someone for the second time, especially in a real interview. In addition, some students have received real offers from their mock interviews.

 

EMPLOYERS
You will be randomly assigned to employers and will be notified who they are prior to your interview.  Employers for this MPA Mock Interview Day include*:

 

BKD CPAs & Advisors

Calvetti Ferguson

Caterpillar Inc.

Cherry Bekaert LLP

Chevron Corporation

Dell Technologies

Deloitte LLP

EY

IDEX Corporation

KPMG

Protiviti

PwC

Stryker

Weaver

 

*Please note that this list is subject to change

 

HOW IT WORKS

The sign-up deadline is 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, January 28, 2021. You can sign up for multiple 30-minute virtual sessions. You select the time, and RecruitMcCombs randomly selects an interviewer for you. MPA Career Management will send you instructions on how to access the name(s) of your mock interviewer(s) before the date of the event.

 

REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS

  • Log in to RecruitMcCombs: https://msb-utexas-csm.symplicity.com/students
  • Click Job Postings on the left and “Search OCIs/RCs” from the drop-down
  • In the search bar enter “MPA mock interview”
  • Click a position and click Apply and Interview
  • Once you “Apply and Interview” for the position (register for an interview) you must go back in to schedule a time. If you submitted your resume without scheduling a time slot, navigate to: Manage My OCIs > and click on the three dots > Schedule Interview.
  • Select a resume.  Make sure it is in the correct MPA format.
  • Select additional job titles for additional practice if desired

 

RESCHEDULING/CANCELLING MOCK INTERVIEWS BEFORE THE SIGN-UP END DATE:

  • Click on the “Scheduled Interviews” tab
  • Select either “Reschedule” or “Cancel” (click on the three dots to the right of the title for these options)

 

NOTE: Cancellations after the interview sign-up date (January 28) will result in losing access to RecruitMcCombs

 

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING WAITLISTS
As there are 14 employer schedules, if you can’t find the time you want in a particular room, check another room, rather than adding yourself to a waitlist.

 

To prepare for your interview(s), please review the interview documents on Canvas, and consider scheduling a mock interview with MPA Career Management before the event.