Telling Stories to Improve Interview Success | Dino Martinez | TEDxUAB

Currently serving as an Assistant Director of the UAB Career Center, Dino Martinez has a combined total of 35 years serving, advising, and coaching on college campuses. His experiences including work in the areas of career services, leadership development, marketing, assessment, social media, campus programming, fraternity and sorority life, advising student organizations, and residence life. He has developed, presented, and facilitated many leadership classes, workshops, and retreats. Dino’s teaching experience includes three years as a UNIV 101 (first-year student University experience class) instructor at Northern Illinois University, a graduate course in the higher education program at Wright State University and an undergraduate leadership course at Eastern Illinois University. He currently serve one of the instructors for the UAB Career Center’s UNIV 200: Job Search Essentials and UNIV 300: Career Mapping courses. Dino created and designed the MMI Bootcamp, a mock interview simulation workshop preparing interested students in the multiple-miniature interview (MMI) format. The MMI interview format is used by a growing number of medical and other professional school admissions programs. You are invited to an interview. The potential employer likes you (based on your resume). The potential employer wants to get to know more about you, your skills and experiences. Telling your stories by highlighting your experiences, lessons learned and how you have grown and developed from these experiences can be a compelling and effective strategy to convey your knowledge, competencies and skills to the potential employer. Dino will share how to tell your stories for greater impact in interviews. Currently serving as an Assistant Director of the UAB Career Center, Dino Martinez has a combined total of 35 years serving, advising, and coaching on college campuses. He has developed, presented, and facilitated many leadership classes, workshops, and retreats. Dino’s teaching experience includes three years as a UNIV 101 instructor at Northern Illinois University, a graduate course in the higher education program at Wright State University and a leadership course at Eastern Illinois University. He currently serves as one of the instructors for the UAB Career Center’s UNIV 200: Job Search Essentials and UNIV 300: Career Mapping courses. Dino created and designed the MMI Bootcamp, a mock interview simulation workshop preparing interested students in the multiple-miniature interview (MMI) format. The MMI interview format is used by a growing number of medical and other professional school admissions programs. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at