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Employment - Job Interview Frame 2
1) Task:
a) Prepare an outline of topics you may be asked about in a
job interview
b) Give the outline to your partner and invite him/her to ask
you a question about each point in the outline.
2) Assistance:
a) Memory Map Outline for an
Employment Interview
{Introduce concept of memory maps if not familiar}
- You must come to a job interview well-prepared
- The best interview preparation is to make a summary of
things the interviewer may ask about
- A summary is not an essay. The kind of summary you need is
an outline of points.
- Memory maps are very efficient for helping you to outline and
remember the points in any topic.
- Memory maps are always built around some organizing idea.
b) Here is a SAMPLE of some points you might need
to discuss in a job interview:
Organizing idea: JOB INTERVIEW
Main topics - examples :
- education and training
- skills and aptitudes
- interests
- likes
- dislikes
- describe your personality
- future hopes and plans
Sub topic 1 - Skills & aptitudes - examples
- knowledge of foreign languages?
- un/skilled working with hands
- good/poor with numbers etc
- un/ skilled at writing / speaking etc
- comfortable/shy at dealing with customers
- dis/like detailed work
- driving licence?
- entertainment talents? - singing, musical ...
- good at drawing or design?
- etc.
Sub topic 2 - Personality - examples
- relationships & social life
- extrovert / introvert
- teamwork or independent ?
- club / association membership
- self starter?
- pessimistic / optimistic?
- determined / casual
- im/patient ?
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