Distance EDU On Demand: Maribeth Gunner on the Art of Informational Interviewing

Maribeth Gunner, director of career services at Excelsior College, joins the podcast to discuss Informational Interviewing, a powerful, but underused job search tactic. Gunner, an expert on career development, career counseling and military career transition, also discusses the most common questions she is confronted with by adult students and teases new Career Center initiatives under development.
1:36 How does an online career center work?
2:52 What is informational interviewing?
3:55 Feedback from students
6:59 The benefits
7:58 Not a job interview
10:01 Research and other prep
10:55 Where to begin
12:16 Common questions
13:48 Transition issues for the military
15:16 New initiatives
 
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by Maribeth Gunner