Warm-up

Time: 3 minutes

Set up a KWL chart and have a discussion with each participant about what they know, what they want to know, and what they might learn about job interview skills. Create two charts—one for good job interview skills and one for bad job interview skills. Take note of which ones are verbal and which ones are visual. Use a different color marker for each type.

Introduction

Time: 3 minutes

• Tell the class they are going to watch a job interview without the sound. They need to watch for the good and bad behaviors in the interview. They should take notes to remember their observations.
• Play the first 42 seconds of each video WITHOUT sound.
• After it’s been watched, ask the learners if they noticed any of the behaviors that they had previously listed on their KWL charts. Add any new behaviors to the chart that may not have previously been mentioned    

Presentation

Time: 6 minutes

•  Instruct the class that they are to watch the video again, with sound this time. Play each video all the way through. Have them again take notes, reminding them to also listen for what the interviewees are saying and their body language.
• Repeat the same de-briefing procedure with a class discussion on what they thought were good or bad behaviors.

Practice

Time: 3 minutes

Put students into pairs. Have them take turns as interviewer and applicant. Encourage the applicants to use really bad interview behavior first. Keep this exercise to a timed 30 seconds for each applicant. This will get the students more aware of what bad behavior feels like and have some fun in the process. This should help relax any nervous tensions.

Evaluation

Time: 10-15 minutes

 Mix up the pairs again. This time, give each pair two different sets of 3-5 (depending on the size of the class) interview questions that might accurately reflect a real-world interview situation. If time allows you may also have a local business owner conduct the interviews. These interviews will be videoed for the next activity. You can let the interviewees take a moment to look at and think about the questions since this is a learning exercise. 

Application

Time: 10-15 minutes

Have the entire class view each interview tape and fill in their handout sheets (available in the attached resource area) on what they observed on questions asked in the interview and turn them in anonymously. These sheets are only given directly to the person being observed and commented upon. This is a peer review.