Are you looking for a new job? Do you want to improve your interview skills? or Do you have excellent interview skills and want to share them with others?
Join us on May 5th for the presentation on “How to prepare and get through tough interviews” by Said Nurhan – a member of MIM Mentorship Committee and highly experienced in both professional and academic environment as an engineer and scientist.
Date: May 5, 2018
Time: 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm
Location: 27 East 28th Street 8th Floor, New York NY 10016
Fee: $5 per person
RVSP Required. Limited to 25 People.
Food and beverages will be provided.
Presentation
The presentation will walk the audience through the initiation of the interview process to its completion;
– From receiving the very first phone call or email and how to handle it and what questions to ask during the first contact.
– What’s involved in getting ready for an interview, from preparing for technical/skill set questions, preparing questions to ask during the interview, to the dress code.
– How to handle one’s self during the interview, body language, navigating through the pave-up questions.
– Final part of the presentation will be an interactive experience.
– The audience will participate in handling the tough questions and what cookie cutter answers to stay away from.
– Understanding what the interviewer is really after and how to properly navigate through related questions.
– Wrapping up the interview.
– Following up.
Speaker
After a long career focusing on Information Technology applied in the finance sector, Said joined the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University. As a senior member of the technical staff, he was responsible for the research and delivery of software engineering process management discipline. Leaving the SEI in 2008 to establish his own consultancy practice, he remained a Visiting Scientist until 2014.
Said’s earlier IT career includes Fortune 100 companies in the New York’s financial district where he served in various capacities from Senior Project Manager to Director of MIS at Wall Street’s leading firms such as Bear Stearns, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Thomson Reuters, CIBC World Markets/Oppenheimer, Kirlin Securities and Prudential Securities.
He also worked as an Adjunct Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, at the Adult Continuing Education Program, between 1986 and 1993, teaching computer languages.
Said spent his early career practicing as a civil engineer.