OCI Q&A, Part 3

1.  What does “no multiple interviews” mean?

If an employer is participating in more than one program — say, OCI and the NY off-campus program, or OCI and BLG — then you can bid for both, but if you get selected for interviews through each program, you can accept only one of them.

2.  Why do I have to get a 70 on VMock; or, Why does VMock keep telling me my resume has mistakes?

 Creating your best resume is both an art and a science.  We’ve trained VMock to help with the science part (format, word choice, etc.) and your CDO advisor will help with the art (What story are you trying to tell?  How can you tell it best?).  The CDO and VMock trained the program using hundreds of BU Law student resumes, along with the BU Law resume handbook, and lots of human input.  VMock uses all of those examples and data to determine your resume’s score.  VMock also puts the score on a curve, comparing your resume to all other BU Law resumes in the system.  (This is law school, after all.)  You don’t have to get 100, 90, or even 80, to have an excellent resume.  Once you get a 70 or above, which should give you a great base to work with, send it to your CDO advisor to help you work on the art of your resume’s narrative.

VMock will continue to improve as we provide feedback, so please send specific feedback to your CDO advisor as it comes up in VMock (spelling, formatting, etc.).  We need to give that back to VMock so they can adjust the program accordingly. 

Please note that one problem that seems to pop up a lot is that VMock has a hard time working with resumes that include tables (which we advise against in the Resume Handbook), and as a result it will say you have formatting errors that look fine to you.