Excelsior Life

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   Resources discussed during the show: by Maribeth Gunner