OPTIMAL INTERVIEW
instructions
VEITCH STUDENT CENTER
UCR CAREER CENTER
CAREERS.UCR.EDU
WHAT IS OPTIMAL INTERVIEW?
Optimal Interview is a component of Optimal Resume, an online tool you can use to enhance your job interviewing skills and develop an
edge over the competition. The program creates a realistic interview experience with a virtual interviewer, where you are asked challenging questions and provided a means to record your responses. The questions are the same questions you would get in a real job or
graduate school interview. You can use Optimal Interview whenever you want, as often as you want to prepare for any employment or
graduate school opportunity.
FEATURES:
-Online web-based practice interviews using video, audio, both or just written response.
-Practice for any job or graduate school interview – 100’s of questions to choose from.
-You can review or re-record before saving for review by a career counselor, or activated (posted on the web)
to share with faculty, peers or friends.
HOW WILL IT HELP ME?
You may be very experienced in your field, but, like any job-seeker or potential graduate school candidate, you probably don’t have a lot of
experience with the interview process itself. When you use Optimal Interview, you’ll learn how to present your skills and qualifications to
an interviewer in any industry or graduate/professional school setting.
Practice from home (with or without) a webcam or from a
kiosk in the Career Center.
THREE WAYS TO REGISTER:
•Click “Need a Resume” on the Career Center website
at careers.ucr.edu
•Visit careers.ucr.edu, click “SCOTLink student login”
•Visit ucr.optimalresume.com.
OCI (On Campus Interviewing) candidates are strongly
encouraged to practice in Optimal Interview.
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ACCESS OPTIMAL INTERVIEW IN SCOTLink
or at ucr.optimalresume.com
VEITCH STUDENT CENTER
UCR CAREER CENTER
CAREERS.UCR.EDU
Select New User to register. Type
your UCR student email address
and click Continue. Go immediately to your webmail to verify an
email sent by the OptimalResume
program. Complete your profile,
repeat sign in, then you are ready
to start a new interview.
In the Skills
Center tab,
click New
Interview.
Configure your interview. If
you choose Build Your Own
interview, click on the topic
and questions you wish.
Click Continue. Choose your
interviewer, adjust your
webcam and microphone, if
applicable. You are ready to
begin your interview.
•Click Start Interview to begin. Interviewer will ask first question, then
you respond in the two minutes allowed. Your video response is viewable
in the top right corner.
•Use Virtual Coaching to learn more about an appropriate response to
the question.
•Click Accept to save your response and move to next question. Click
Redo to create new response for same question.
•Click Save to save responses to the Skills Center and Close to exit.
•Make an appointment with the Career Center at 827-3631 to have a
counselor critique your interview. Activate your interview to share with
faculty, peers or friends using the web url provided.