Students get a taste of job interviews
Professionals from the business world will next week be putting teenagers through their interview paces.
Twelve businesses from across the region will be testing the skills of Year 11 students from Lawrence Sheriff School when they go to the school on Wednesday to help improve the pupils’ interview skills in an event organised by the Warwickshire Education Business Partnership.
The organisations represented include Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Hanson, Coventry Building Society, Nationwide Building Society and Warwickshire County Council.
The event is part of a programme to equip school leavers with the skills they can take with them into the workplace. The students will have filled out an Application Form, which will highlight their skills and abilities as well as their academic achievements.
The business representatives read the forms very carefully before putting the students through a ‘mock’ interview designed to strengthen the ‘candidates’ ability to present themselves well in the formal and stressful environment of the job interview.
At the end of the process the students will have had the opportunity to undergo a very real interview experience and will have received valuable feedback and hints and tips from the business representatives.
All the parties involved in previous years are unanimous about the benefits of this programme.
Students say: “This will enable me to make improvements for my next interview. It has given me more confidence.” While businesses say: “Prepares them for later life and was well organised and run.”
Warwickshire Education Business Partnership works as part of Warwickshire County Council with businesses and schools to help address the constant demand from employers for school leavers to be ‘work ready’.