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The Lion’ s Eye
Practice your skills: Free interview help
By CHRISTINE CONRON .
Staff writer
Imagine sitting down to a job interview with-
out any preparation for the questions which you will
be asked. Not only are you unprepared, but you are
also wearing your pajamas and you don't have a
resume. And did I mention that
you are being videotaped?
Then, at the end you will sit down with your
interviewer to watch and critique the interview.
Through the process, you can learn what to expect
from a real interview, as well as how you can improve
the way that you present yourself.
That's exactly what I experienced when I was
given a mock interview, only as a reporter I wasn't
expecting to be getting asked the questions.
However, the experience helped me to realize
how the mock interview program can provide the
practice needed to become more confident, more
organized, and more aware of what types of questions
you will be asked, and how to highlight your strengths
so that you stand out among the competition.
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"The Mock Interview Program is one of the
tools that Career Services uses to help our students to
prepare themselves for the transition into the work-
place, by providing them with the skills they need to
be competitive in the job hiring process," stated
Thomas Seifried of Career Services.
A strength of the service, is that in order to
maintain an experience as close to reality as possible,
many of the program's interviewers are PSU Delco
graduates who are currently working as Human
Resources interviewers.
According to Seifreid, these interviewers,
from organizations such as The Vanguard Group, the
Delaware County Government internship program,
Contemporary Staffing = Solutions, and Riddle
Hospital, have offered jobs to the participants on more
than one occasion.
Another strength is that participants are given
the opportunity to see themselves react and respond to
the interviewer by watching the videotape following
the interview.
Along with the suggestions provided by the
nisrviswes, participants can criticize themselves on
what didn't work for them, or what they need to
improve on because they are seeing what an inter-
viewer would see.
Each fall and spring, the program designates
a week that coincides with a time when students are
trying to find jobs or internships to hold practice intes-
views. Typically, during each of these weeks, 20 to 25
students participate.
Students trying to obtain competitive intern-
ships, who would‘like to go through the process can
also make an appointment for an interview in the
career center which is located in the Commons
Building.
The program will help students to create an
effective resume as well as how to effectively sell
themselves to a prospective interviewer.
Practice interyiews can also supplement vari-
ous "capstone" classes, which are classes generally
taken during senior year as a culmination of all of the
isolated classes for a major. These classes, for Urban
Education, HDFS, Business, and IST majors, often
incorporate the program into instruction to aid stu-
dents’ in finding jobs after graduation.
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By DAN ZACHER
Assistant editor
What can one person
actually accomplish? How
can one person really make
a difference in the lives of
the majority of Penn State
students? Signing a peti-
tion may be the best way
for an individual to have
their voice heard in both a
safe and effective manner.
This past semester, there
have been many computer
viruses that had either
infected or attacked the
Penn State computer sys-
tem due to one weak spot
in the system. These virus-
es quickly spread to almost
every computer on the
Delaware County campus,
including the main com-
puter for the Lion's Eye.
Nearly seven-eighths of
the campus computers
have been attacked by
some sort of virus this
semester. This includes
every computer in the
Library, most in 214 Main,
and*®: some in = 10%
Classroom.
"There are a lot of severe
viruses," said Donnell
Tilery II, former Penn State
student and current
employee of the campus.
"Our campus wasn't
exploited like some others.
[One such virus] affected
the IIS server and there is
only one on our campus.
This server was not infect-
ed, but was under attack."
This particular virus only
slowed down the Delco
computer system because
other campuses in the Penn
State system were unknow-
ingly sending the viruses
back to Delco.
A second virus that was
present in the system, once
activated, sent e-mails with
attachments of itself to
every person on the users
contact list or address
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Protect our computers
SGA fights to get students free anti-virus protection
book. If even one virus was
left in the system it could
potentially, within a matter
of minutes, spread itself
back to every computer on
campus.
‘With the knowledge of
the problem = Student
Government Senate, in its
October meeting, forged an
idea to have a petition cir-
culated and sent to
University Park that states:
"In the best interest of
Pennsylvania State
University, its administra-
tion, its staff, its faculty,
and its students, we, the
following members of the
student body, request free
anti-virus protection for its
student's personal comput-
ers,”
The senate said that some
students have some sort of
virus protection on their
personal computers, but for
the majority of the students
those packages are outdat-
ed or non-existent.
Even though Norton
Antivirus 2002 for
Windows is only $37.39
off of
http://www.moc.cac.psu.ed
u, the senate believes even
with the reduced costs will
still not entice students to
go out and get it; the stu-
dents will have to have it
presented for them to take
advantage of this.
Tilery believes that the
attempt by the student gov-
ernment is not necessarily
a great thing, because stu-
dents many not come to get
the free software and the
~ info-tech fee may go up for
no reason.
The student body already
had free anti-virus protec-
tion software included with
CACPAC 3.0, the third
version of the software that
is given to every student at
orientation and no one took
advantage of it.
Some viruses, including
many of the early ones,
were just a joke. These
viruses would move the
window around the screen,
keeping it away from the
mouse, or changing the
background color every 30
seconds.
Now viruses are usually a
lot more hazardous. They
can steal your passwords,
delete all your Word docu-
ments, or even delete your
Basic In-Out System
(BIOS), which dubs your -
entire machine useless.
It is recommended that if
you have virus protection
that you update your anti-
virus software at least one a
month and check your sys-
tem after you update.
The virus that infected
the Delaware County com-
puter system may have
been sent to you by another
student or a professor by
accident and it may be live
on your system right now.
Most commercial pack-
ages should have their
information updated by
now so you can download
their update and rid your
system of this potential
threat. ia
"Taking care of a com-
puter is like taking care of
your car." Tilery said.
"When you get your oil
changed it is like you
updating your virus protec-
tion. When you go over
3000 miles in your car, it is
like going an extra amount
of time before updating
your virus protection. You
are just asking for trouble."
If you are interested in
signing the petition to
receive either a free or dis-
counted Anti-virus pack-
age, please see the Student
Government Association in
the Lion's Den to sign the
petition and to have your
voice heard.