Mock Interview

Objective: 

Participants will go through a mock Interview drive experience

Total Time: 90 Minutes

Material required:

NA

Instructor Note: 

This session is the last session of the communication skills module and will be followed by a feedback session to end the module. This session has to be organized professionally so students can get to experience a simulated interview. 

Important note:

• participants have to be informed about this session in advance 

• they should be informed to come dressed formally

• arrangements to record all the interviews should be made

• if possible, someone else should conduct the interviews and trainer should just organise everything

Opening Protocol:

• Greet the participants

• Take attendance

• In pairs, ask participants to share with each other how they are feeling

• Recap the previous session by asking 1-2 participants to share with the class, what they learnt and did in the previous session

5 Minutes

Activity: Mock Interviews

Depending on the availability of trainers, this session can be done in 2 ways:-

Way 1:

• A schedule is created to have one on one interviews with each student by a trainer or by trainers from other cohorts. 

• Number of trainers needed can be decided based on time and number of students, ensuring that each participant gets at least 10 minutes for interview

• Interview question sets and scoring sheets should be given to each trainer at least a day in advance

Way 2:

• Divide the students in the groups of 4 participants each

• Ask students to name themselves as A, B, C and D

• Give each student 3 copies of the scoring sheet

• Ask them to read the scoring sheet, make sure they understand each and every part of it

• Give them interview question sets to be used for mock interview

• Every student will appear for a mock drive and the other 3 will become the interview panelists. For eg- when A will appear for interview B,C and D will become panelist and they will record the scores and subjective feedback for interviewee

• Every student will give a 15 minutes interview. Monitor the time

• Trainer will move around the class to ensure that students are doing the activity seriously

80 Minutes

Closing Protocol: 

• Thank the participants for their time

• Announce the next time you will be visiting them

• Share the topic of the next session

• Collect 1-2 most interesting activity sheets/artefacts from students and show to Nodal officer and institution head after session

• Click pictures of the artefacts for documentation

5 Minutes