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[politica]

Hello, hello.

I teach an interview class and I have run into a problem I thought you all might be able to help me with . . .

The interview class is for university students, and I have as many as 18 students per class. They all have to give 3 minute interviews, and I have the interview schedule spread out over a couple of weeks, so that in each class, 3-5 students will give their interviews.

Here's the problem: the other 17 students in class. I have to write marks during the student's interview, but the rest of the class seems to be bored out of their minds. I taught this class last semester and tried having students in the "audience" write reviews or comments, but I mostly just got stuff like "better eye contact" or "more confidence" . . . which just seemed really generic, especially when you hear the same thing for every student.

Any ideas of interesting ways to engage and involve the rest of the class while one student is giving an interview?

Thanks in advance!

[Ribena]

Give them a chart on which to rank(1-5) the other student on whatever element to decided. On the sheet say that if they mark someone on the low end of the scale they have to suggest how they could improve. So you can direct them to think about particularly aspects of the interview.

Or put them in groups give them a few minutes at the end of the interview to come up with questions to ask the person being interviewed. Tell them the question has to be appropriate for the situation so you don't get any dumb questions. They could ask them to expand further on an answer they have already given or another totally different question.

Or tell them you'll assess them on their involvement in the whole class rather than just their own individual interview. Or you will be assessing their reviews as well.

[pkang0202]

A lot of Korean interviews are set up in a Panel.

Why not separate the students into 2 or 3 groups. Each group interviews the candidate. Assign roles to the group members (CEO, HR Head, Sales, Marketing, etc...). Rotate the roles.

In this setup, you walk around and facilitate, and give some pointers to the people asking questions, as well as people answering.


Make company profile cards to give to each group. Interviewing for a large company is different than interviewing for a small one. Switch industries also. An IT company (google, Microsoft, Intel, etc...) has different needs than say a service company (advertising, law firm, consulting).



You could play around with it too. have 1 person be the "inappropriate" interviewer. Designate that person to ask very personal, or random questions that the interviewee doesn't expect. The students can learn how to react to unexpected questions, and also how to deal with inappropriate ones.

I've been to plenty of interviews at Korean companies, and I've had things asked like "How many bottles of soju can you drink?", personal iformation about my family, and why I like to date Korean women.


Change things up a bit. Also, an important part of the interview is where the candidate asks the interviewers questions. See how your group panels respond to questions from the interviewee.