Viking Score: Informational Interviews
Informational Interviews | 6 pts
Conduct one or more Informational Interviews with alumni or professionals in your field of interest. Often, the most current and best information about a specific field of interest, organization, or geographic location comes from the people who are working in that field.
Benefits of Informational Interviewing:
- Get firsthand, relevant information about the realities of working within a particular field, industry, or position. This kind of information isn’t always available online.
- Find out about career paths you didn’t know existed.
- Get tips about how to prepare for and enter a given industry.
- Learn what it’s like to work at a specific organization.
- Gain insider knowledge that can help you in writing your application materials, interviewing, and more.
- Initiate a professional relationship and expand your network of contacts in specific career field; meet people who may forward job or internship leads to you in the future.
- To earn your Viking Score Points you must complete the Viking Score: Informational Interview Worksheet (linked below)
- Meet with a Career Coach to discuss what you have learned and plan for next steps or report your Viking Score activity
- Check your Viking Score
- Make contact using the Viking Score: Identify & Contact Professionals for Informational Interviews resource