Community Research

Conversation Starters

Now that you’ve watched the “Breaking the Habit of Small Talk" TEDx video, reviewed relevant job postings, and subscribed and started to read industry-relevant posts, we invite you to create your own thoughtful and informed open-ended questions. 

Activity: Develop a list of conversation starters. 

Here are a few examples from the book, Five For Your First Five: Own Your Career and Life After College (McWilliams, 2017) that you could also adopt or revise—adapt the questions to be authentic for you and appropriate for the situation: 

  • "What is the biggest lesson you've learned about leadership and how did you learn it?" (p.124) 
  • "What is the greatest challenge or hurdle you have tried to overcome and what did you do?" (p. 124) 
  • "When was the last time you were surprised by something/someone? What happened?" (p. 124) 
  • "How are you taking ownership for your career development?" (p. 13) 
  • "How do you build skills and experiences that will benefit you in the future..?" (p. 3)

Congratulations! You have reached the last page of the Exploring My Community Resource Map. You can return to Unit 4, or use the button below to keep exploring this activity. 

Click here to return to the flowchart ↻


Tip: Click exit book below to go back to the main page, or take this shortcut to move directly to the module summary.