MODULE: Job Search Methods and Employment SUBJECT TITLE: Job interview Solveiga Sama
Subject title
Purpose of the activity
Duration
Location and tools Number of participants
Job interview
The aim of this activity is to show youngsters approximately how a job interview is done, participate in it from both sides, as an interviewer and as an interviewee and also explore a job finding process challenges in a form of a theatre.
2-3 hours.
Tables, chairs, writing tools, paper sheets.
10–20 participants.
The task is job interview simulation.
Acquaintance/ team building methods
Small tables are arranged in one line in one row. Here, participants sit in a row next to a table, where two participants sit opposite of each other. On one side there are interviewers and on other side – interviewees. A job advertisement is given to both parties and the interviewer also gets a set of questions. 5 minutes are given for each pair to simulate a job interview. After the time, one line moves, either it is interviewees or interviewers, to one direction and pairs change. If the group is quite experienced in job interview process, then people can do job interviews simultaneously. However, if the participants in the group have not had many job interviews, the pairs have to talk in turn, i.e., only one interviewer and one interviewee speak at a time. They go through the questions and after the 5 minutes, listeners give comments, suggestions and feedback on the interview process. The participants then change and the audience become the participants. At the end of the task, participants share how they felt in the process while being in different roles.
Forum Theatre
Practical tasks
126
Presenters must prepare in advance. The main aspect of the activity is that while the theatre is played out, the audience members can influence what is said in the stage and even change places with actors, and in such way improve story and use their analytical thinking. For this forum theatre session to be effective, at least 4 people should be present, but the play can also take place in the presence of 2 people. A story must be laid out and played out. One actor should play the villain, namely the bad boss, who acts negatively and impolitely during a job interview process, one is theinterviewee who seeks a job, one may be the mother of the interviewee and the fourth person can be the story narrator. For example, one story could be that interviewee, a student, talks to his/her mother and the mother says that she cannot pay for university, thus the student must start working. Interviewee goes to a job interview, where the boss tends to look for trailers and acts in a very rude way towards the interviewee. Interviewee tries to work this situation out, and then the job interview is over.
