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YouTube: How to Prepare for an Interview
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Computer and projector, Mobile devices for students, Speakers
Activity Description
This lesson will help your students prepare for a job interview. The video covers
In this activity, students will be viewing a YouTube video on "How to Prepare for an Interview," As they watch they should fill out the study guide and prepare to answer discussion questions. Then students can participate in mock interviews.
Preparation
- Check to see if you can access to video or if the site is blocked at your district. See teacher tips if it is blocked.
- Preview the video, print the study guide, and create a list of questions you would like to discuss with students.
- Decide if there is any new vocabulary presented in this video and prepare a list with definitions.
- If you would like to do mock interviews with the students, write several general interview questions.
How-To
- Show the YouTube, How to Prepare for an Interview (Example Web Site, above)
- Discuss job interviews with the class.
- Have students make a list of what they fell they have done correctly or incorrectly in an interview.
- Show possible questions they might be asked on an interview.
- Select several students to demonstrate a mock interview.
- After interviews, ask students for their thoughts.
Teacher Tips
- A negative often mentioned among adult education teachers is that YouTube is blocked at their sites. One solution is to download the free software available at YTD Video Downloader , which similarly converts online video to portable video files on your computer.
- For a list of video sources and other ideas for use of online video, look on the OTAN site, Using online video in the classroom.
More Ways
- You can also use video to:
- To spark discussion or to use as a lesson warm up
- As a pre-reading exercise to help students to start thinking about what they know about a topic they will read about
- To supplement course content
- As the basis for listening exercises
- As a writing prompt
- As the basis of a class survey project
- To Inspire
- To find a video you would like to present, you can use YouTube, or just do a Web search for any news program--from 60 Minutes to MSNBC News to CNN --and you will find that most sites contain both print material and video segments for most of what is broadcast on TV. Saw something on TV that you wished you could share with your students? Just about anything you see on a major TV channel can be found somewhere on the Web these days. If you cannot find it by searching Google, try Hulu . (Note: This site is likely to be blocked at K-12 school districts.)
- An additional segment for Adults with Disabilities
- Also included is a document for a semester for Job Skills that was used in a class for Adults with Disablities. It has a list of ideas that includes Job Preparedness.
- Another great addition is a PPT that lists long and short term goals for seeking employemnt. The PPT is simple with easy to read words and graphic. This was used with AWD.
- Please not that working with all learners, you can have learners group in small groups, readers helping non-readers, signers working with others, many have have their interpreters with them or use a talk to text app on phone/tablet.
- A great option for using PPT or having a handout for learners is that some may ask for a copy for better comprehension on their own time.
- You can always use AI to encourage more ideas for interviewing, dress code or employment opportunities.
Program Areas
- ABE: Adult Basic Education
- ESL: English as a Second Language
- ASE: High School Diploma
- CTE: Career Technical Education
- AwD: Adults with Disabilities
Levels
- Low
- Intermediate
- High
- All Levels
- Beginning High
- Intermediate Low
- Intermediate High
- Advanced
