People & Leadership · Future of Work

My First Interview

Career readiness capstone: guide Taylor Kim, a 17-year-old Austin junior, through four rounds — résumé craft, digital audit, behavioral interview with EEOC red-flag questions, and offer evaluation (Brew & Co. vs. GridPoint) with I-9 and W-4 onboarding paperwork.

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Who it is for

An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 4 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results. The first round opens with: Résumé Craft.
  3. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Remove the photo
  • Remove date of birth and marital status
  • Replace the xXbabygirl17Xx email with a professional one
  • Fix the two typos
  • Add quantified accomplishments
  • Replace objective with a professional summary
  • Add relevant coursework
  • Compress the résumé to one page
  • Captained JV soccer (12 players, 14-game season)
  • Edited 120+ yearbook photos

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • Résumé Craft
  • Step 1 — Fix the 8 errors on the draft
  • Step 2 — Write a 2-line professional summary
  • Step 3 — Pick 3 quantified accomplishments
  • Digital Audit
  • LinkedIn headline
  • Request a recommendation from
  • Social media audit — choose an action per item

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Future of Work.

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