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Job Interviews Speaking

The document outlines the steps to teach a lesson on job interviews, including introducing interview skills and personality traits, common interview questions, and an activity where students conduct mock interviews for random job roles without knowing the role in advance. Students are put in pairs and assigned a fictional job role. They generate interview questions and conduct short interviews with other students to determine who would be best suited for the made-up role. The roles include teddy bear surgeon, professional sleeper, chocolate taster, and others.

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Job Interviews Speaking

The document outlines the steps to teach a lesson on job interviews, including introducing interview skills and personality traits, common interview questions, and an activity where students conduct mock interviews for random job roles without knowing the role in advance. Students are put in pairs and assigned a fictional job role. They generate interview questions and conduct short interviews with other students to determine who would be best suited for the made-up role. The roles include teddy bear surgeon, professional sleeper, chocolate taster, and others.

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Job interviews - speaking

Step one: Introduce lesson topic. Talking about interviews, skills you might need etc.

Step two: Start with vocabulary. Students think of vocabulary related to desirable skills.
Write these on the board. Students then think of desirable personality traits. Write these on
the board.

Vocabulary
Your skills/strengths:
● Organization
● The ability to multitask
● Perform to a deadline
● Solve problems
● Communicate well
● Work in an international environment and with people from all over the world
● Speak foreign languages
● Enthusiasm

Your personality:
● Easy-going: a relaxed person who is easy to get along with
● Hard-working: someone who works well and isn’t lazy
● Committed: a person who is loyal to a project or person
● Trustworthy: someone who you can rely on
● Honest: someone who tells the truth
● Focused: someone who is not easily distracted
● Methodical: a person who pays attention to details and works in a logical way
● Proactive: someone who takes steps to complete tasks without supervision

Step three: Discuss interview questions. Students say questions they think could be asked
at a job interview. Discuss how you might answer these questions? Talk about how there are
general interview questions and role-specific questions.

Common interview questions:


● Tell me about yourself
● What do you consider to be your strengths? (Focus on 3 main and explain why these
are your biggest strengths.)
● What do you consider to be your weaknesses? (Choose one weakness, explain it
and say how you actively try to improve upon it.)
● Why do you want to leave your current company?
● Where do you see yourself in five years? Ten years?
● What can you offer us that someone else can not?
● What do you expect from your next employer?
● What are three things your former manager would like you to improve on?
● Tell me about an accomplishment you are most proud of.
● Tell me about a time you made a mistake, why, and what you did you fix it. ● Tell me
about a time when you faced a difficult situation, how you overcame this and what was
the result.
● Give a time when you went above and beyond the requirements for a project.
● How do you handle pressure?

Step four: Introduction of interview activity. Students are put in pairs and given a random job
role with its description.

Students must come up with interview questions related to this job role- without giving away
what the job role is. 3 or 4 questions.

Students will then interview the other members of the class using the questions they have
made. The interviewees will not know what the role they are ‘applying for’ is. Possibly in the
format of a carousel?

Each pair will decide who the best suited candidate is for their job role, based on the
answers given.

Random job roles:


Teddy Bear Surgeon: If you always wanted to be a surgeon but didn’t make it into medical
school, consider becoming a teddy-bear surgeon. In addition to keen eyesight and attention
to detail, teddy-bear technicians must have the best bedside manner. When surgeons
operate on people, the patient is unconscious and the family members wait in another room.
When teddy-bear technicians operate, often the bear’s closest family member observes the
repairs with baited breath. The slightest show of frustration or difficulty on the surgeon’s part
will result in tears and loud lamentations.

Professional Sleeper: A hotel in Finland hired a member of staff as a ‘professional


sleeper’ to test the comfort of their beds. The individual sleeps in a different one of the hotel
beds each night and writes a review about her satisfaction with each one.

Chocolate Taster: They say most people love it, and this job really takes this appreciation
for it to another level. As part of a team of chocolate tasters, you are responsible for
checking each batch of chocolate is the correct texture, consistency, and flavor.

Professional Mourner: It is a tradition in SouthEast Asia that a loud funeral will assist the
dead as they travel to the afterlife, so professional mourners are hired to cry and weep loudly
throughout the service.
Train Pusher: If you think the London Underground is bad, you should see the trains in
Japan. ‘Oshiyas’ are hired to help cram as many people onto a train as possible by pushing
them from the outside until the doors will close.

Full-time Netflix viewer: Imagine being paid to watch TV all day! Well for one lucky
employee this dream has become a reality. Netflix has hired someone to watch all of their
content before it is available to the public and their role is to review and assign each program
its correct tag, which helps us viewers find exactly what we’re after, whether it’s a romantic
crime movie based on classic literature or witty talking-animal TV show.

Drying paint watcher: No, this isn’t a joke. Someone actually earns a living watching
paint dry. A man in the UK currently has the job and he spends his days painting sheets of
cardboard to test how long new paint mixes take to dry and watching for changes in color
and texture.

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