JOB INTERVIEW
Employability: Session 9
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OVERALL OUTCOME
LESSON OBJECTIVES
Build participant confidence in knowing what to expect and how to be successful at an interview.
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INFORMATION FOR FACILITATOR
Make sure to prepare all coaches and guest speakers so they know what is expected of them during this session.
It would also be good to have a guest speaker from a growing sector in the labour market.
Make sure to invite female guest speakers and/or coaches.
GENDER LENS
Girls have different challenges from boys when entering the job market. The most common challenges for young women are: lower levels of education and skills, Childbearing and domestic/care responsibilities, lower self confidence, limited access to key assets (money, land…), gendered labour market segregation, limited mobility
Common barriers for young men are: Higher pressure to be breadwinner, perceptions of young men as idle or criminal, negative peer influences, armed recruitment and demobilization, insecurity and violence
During the sessions, it is important to adopt a gender lens. This means that you try to include gender topics where you see fit.
In discussions: you can add a question on the difference between men and women, boys and girls.
Participation: Make sure women also participate in activities and feel safe to voice their opinions during sessions.
Motivational speakers: make sure to invite female mentors and/or speakers so that girls in the course can relate to them
In sum, wherever you can, address issues that women face in particularly, such as harrasment, discrimination on the job market or in specific male-dominated sectors based on gender, ..
DIGITAL LENS
During the sessions, some activities aim at strengthening the participants’ digital skills, more specifically:
Adapted online activities for remote teaching: Some activities have been adapted so they can be facilitated online, using Skype, Zoom, Teams and Google Slides or Google Docs, or include embedded videos and online tools.
Digital peer support: Some activities can be done digitally whereby digitally more skilled or advanced students can be paired with Ya student who needs support when doing a digital activity.
TODAY’S ACTIVITIES
Welcome and Review
Dressing for an interview
Interview preparation
Preparing for
Interview
Questions
Interview Practice
Energizer: your choice
Welcome and review
Choose an energizer (from previous sessions or just one you know) and describe the instructions briefly here
Workshop: CV swap
Welcome and review
Give your cv to your peer on your right. On a piece of paper, write some feedback of the CV you are reviewing. Coach will also add their comments.
Take a look at the comments your peer has given you.
Important: You have 5 minutes!
Review: Discussion
Welcome and review
Many employers make a decision based on a CV very quickly. That’s why the 5 minute time frame was important for reviewing each other’s work.
Although it is always great to be open to feedback, this doesn’t mean that you have to make every change that another person suggests. It’s good to learn how to be confident in your own decisions as well.
Revise your CV again at home, incorporating the feedback you
think is most valuable.
Dressing for an interview
Dressing for an interview
SCENARIO 1 (adjust to context if needed)
Sophie has been invited for a job interview to be a part-time receptionist of a law firm. The law firm is located next to her old school and since the interview would end at 15:00, Sophie decided she would go say hello to her former teachers after the interview. Sophie put on her new jeans, a nice t-shirt, and nice sneakers.
SCENARIO 2 (adjust to context if needed)
Portia has been invited for an interview to be a customer assistant in a clothing store. She took her a nice blouse and dress pants or a skirt. She is wearing her big earrings and bracelet with colourful charms.
SCENARIO 3(adjust to context if needed)
Phillip was invited to attend an interview with a family for a babysitting job. He put on his latest fashionable tracksuit and flip-flops.
SCENARIO 4 (adjust to context if needed)
Rose was invited for an interview to be a receptionist in a pediatric hospital. She wore her leggings and a nice top. She decided to wear her make-up, bright shades of eye shadow and lipstick. She had her long
nails properly manicured in bright red decorated with golden glitter.
SCENARIO 5 (insert your personal job interview story)
Dressing for an interview: discussion
Dressing for an interview
Why is it important to dress appropriately for an interview?
What kind of assumptions can employers make
based on how you are dressed?
Is there a difference for men and women when dressing for an interview?
Interview preparation: scenario (1/2)
Interview preparation
Peter has an interview scheduled on Monday at 9am. To get to the interview will take him an hour. The weather forecast for Monday morning is rainy but it will get hot later in the day. Whenever it rains, there is heavy traffic and buses run late.
For the interview, the company asked Peter to complete a short form and bring it with him.
On Sunday early evening, when he was about to start preparing for the interview and fill out the form, he received an invitation from a friend for a surprise birthday party for another friend. The party was to start at 9pm. Peter spent one hour reviewing information about the company and thinking through how he would answer a few questions. He decided to do the form in the morning. Then he left for the party...
Interview preparation: scenario (2/2)
Interview preparation
… The party was great and he drank a lot of alcohol and only managed to
get back home at about 3am in the morning. Peter set his alarm clock
for 7am, but slept instead until 7:30am. He dressed very professionally
and hurried out the door at ten minutes before 8am. He managed to
get to the interview at 9:05am but realized he had forgotten the form at
home.
Interview preparation: discussion
Interview preparation
What did Peter do right in preparation for the interview?
What are the things that Peter should not have done?
What should have Peter done differently?
Interview preparation: guest speaker
Interview preparation
Preparing for interview questions
Preparing for interview questions
Who has interview experience?
What kind of questions were you asked?
Preparing for interview questions
Preparing for interview questions
Here are some common interview questions
Insert questions that are not in the workbook but that are relevant in the local context!
Workshop: prepare for interview questions
Preparing for interview questions
Workshop: interview practice
Interview practice
And the winning interviewee is...
Interview practice
Recap of Today
Activity!
Stand in a circle
Throw the ball to someone.
That person shares one thing that makes them most nervous for an interview
Key message of today
Open your workbook, read the Do’s and Don’ts tips
Read them out loud: these are today’s key messages
Preparations for next week
Workbook assignment
Fully complete CV and/or improve it before the next session (including references)
• Based on the job/internship they found which they would like to apply for, they should add two or three sentences to the Optional Extras section of their CV by adding a bit of information and motivation about themselves which would be appropriate for this job/internship
Questions?
Tip!
Let’s use whatsapp group(s) to ask or answer questions and share knowledge and resources!
For Trainers: