Job Interviews For Dummies®, 4th Edition

Chapter 20

What Education Do You Have?

In This Chapter

Selling educational skills and value in your job interview

Capitalizing on boomers’ updated workplace education

Maximizing the educational punch of new college graduates

Interviewers glean more from your answers about education and training than just the facts. What you say reveals your decision-making processes, your values, your ability to keep up with the times, and your willingness to adapt to a technology-driven global economy.

In addition to dealing with touchy issues that job seekers of any age or experience level may encounter — like not having a degree or other required educational credential — this chapter focuses on inquiries often directed at two specific groups:

Boomers, a young-at-heart generation toting around a few extra years of experience. (See Chapter 13 for interviewing tips for people over 50.)

Millennials (those born after 1980), fresh faces on the work scene and typically recent college gradates. (See Chapter ...