Corporate Sponsors
Interview Skills
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
Resumes and Cover Letters
Public Speaking
Year Up Trivia
Emotional Intelligence
100

A company which has the most popular web search engine in the world

What is Google?

100

A situation when multiple candidates are interviewed at one time

What is a group interview?

100

When you reflect someone's facial expressions or posture

What is mirroring?

100

The core of your resume

What is a power statement?

100

The fear of public speaking

What is glossophobia?

100

The CEO of Year Up

Who is Gerald Chertavian?

100

The ability to recognize what emotions you are feeling

What is self-awareness?

200

One of the largest of its types in the United States and has helped to fund more than 30,000 start-ups

What is Silicon Valley Bank?

200

The "S" in the STAR method represents

What is situation?

200

This technique can be very effective when listening, but most people tend to be uncomfortable with it.

What is pausing or silence?

200

This doesn't matter as long as you are consistent throughout your resume

What is formatting?

200

Appealing to the audience's emotions

What is ethos?

200

Year Up's headquarters is located in this city.

What is Boston?
200

The ability to control how you react to a set back or challenge

What is self-regulation?

300

Its mission is to connect professionals and make them more successful.

What is LinkedIn?

300

The "A" in the STAR method stands for

What is action?

300

This demonstrates that you are listening well and helps to clarify the speaker's thoughts

What is paraphrasing?

300

The amount of time recruiters spend looking at a resume

What is 6 seconds?

300

Appealing to the audience's logic

What is logos?

300
Year Up's mission is to ___________.

What is to bridge the opportunity divide?

300

"Walking in someone's shoes" or feeling what they feel

What is empathy?

400

Based out of Redwood City, it specializes in cloud based storage and file management.

What is Box?

400

A type of interview when you have multiple interviewers

What is a panel interview?

400

These are sounds or short phrases to show that you are listening.

What are minimal encouragers?

400

This is the first impression you make on a potential employer.  It reveals how effectively you can communicate.

What is a cover letter?

400

This is a 30 second introduction that reveals your professional brand.

What is an elevator pitch?

400
Besides Silicon Valley, the other three sites in northern California

What are San Francisco, Facebook, and DVC?

400

The general desire or willingness of someone to do something

What is motivation?

500

It is a global company that facilitates electronic funds transfers.

What is Visa?

500

One of the six most difficult questions

Judge's discretion
500

Body languages accounts for what percentage of how we communicate?

What is 50%?

500

You should send this out within 24 hours of an interview.

What is a thank you note?

500

This should be minimal on a PowerPoint presentation.

What are words?

500

The goal for Year Up for graduates is to have what percentage of positive outcomes?

What is 85%?

500

The skills we use to communicate and interact with each other

What are social skills?

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