Have an interview but no experience?

I had an interesting conversation with a Knowledge Management Professor the other day. It was about how students who graduate without work experience nor any technical skills will do in an interview and how sharing their knowledge.

First of all, they don't have much technical skills to brag about, and even less knowledge to share. Now what? I believe what one can do is show their behavior and instead of attracting employees by selecting skills, an interviewer may decide to change his decision criteria to go look for bringing a culture change in the organization.

Secondly, what one can do, as she said, was to show your analytical skills. How do you answer questions is often more important than your answer itself... Example taken from another teacher: how would you answer this question?

How many tennis balls can you put in a school bus?

Regular answers: "a lot", " 10 millions ", "I don't know", "who cares"

Best answer: "assuming the bus is 10 meters long by meters wide an by 4 meters high, and that a tennis ball measures 5 cm x 5 cm, and that you remove all the furniture, the approximate answer would be..."

Thus, even though those tips are very limited, it does give you a good start. However, I was not able to extract more out of my Teacher for that day due to the bell ringing, but guess what ? there is the INTERNET!