SOPHIE TAYLOR AND LUKE OWEN F2F:

Another face-to-face interview I performed was with last year’s graduates, Luke Owen, and Sophie Taylor. Again, I optimised our marketing content and conducted a joint interview alongside individual questions for them to engage with. As former students, both Luke and Sophie understood the importance of this module and provided the team with some excellent responses to my questions.

I believe doing a joint interview allowed the participants to bounce off one another’s answers and gained them the confidence for the individual proceeding interviews. It is massively important to incorporate former students as it demonstrates the progression, they have made post-graduation. Sophie and Luke have both received fabulous roles and I focused an element of my questions around these, as well as cooperating their opinions of the new course and its prevalence for the future of fashion education.

For a role like mine, it is easy to get fixated on performance, and just as easy to neglect how well you are doing! After each interview, I made it a priority to thank those involved, and it was most wholesome to receive such positive feedback from every participant in their responses. Interviewing is a role I have never done before and was, therefore, completely out of my comfort zone- a reason as to why I agreed to doing it in the first instance. Seeing the interviewees enjoying their time and willing to do extra, proved I was performing my job well and proliferated my confidence during the process.