Webquest On Job Interviewing Skills

Ms. Lobron

Grace Dodge High School

INTRODUCTION: You have been chosen to write and produce a pamphlet (4 to 6 pages) that will give strategies to help unemployed young people come in and be taught how to interview better. The Bureau of Employment in the Bronx wants you to help fellow teens improve your job interview skills. This is to be the first in a series of pamphlets about developing job interview skills. Number 1 is about first considerations in preparing for a job interview.

TASK: You will write a 4- to 6-page pamphlet advising students how to improve their job interviewing skills. It is to be based on the articles on websites and in printed booklets that teach the prospective interviewee the correct “headset” for preparing for an interview. Title the pamphlet “First Things First.” You will also study the problem of teen unemployment and public policy aimed at helping them find jobs.

PROCESS

1. Work with each other in a group of two to four students
2. Go to at least two of the websites listed below. – (see resources)
3. Use TIPS worksheets to find out what the government is trying to do to solve the problem of teen unemployment. There are six worksheet steps:

· Define the problem.

· Gather evidence.

· Identify causes.

· Evaluate a policy.

· Develop solutions.

· Select the best solutions.

(You will turn in each worksheet—it will be marked.) Fill out worksheet by hand.

4. Write a booklet of four to six typed pages. Use pictures. You will receive extra credit from your English teacher, and your finished pamphlet will be turned into the Bureau of Employment and may well be on the Web, too.

RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS

http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_265:shtml

http://www.eyekai.tv/Articles/jobinterviewing%20skills.htm

http://by15fd.bay15.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg

http://www.uwire.com/content/topnews071803001.html

http://www.kptv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1337953

http://www.entrepreneur.com/tsu/article/0,5788,309844,00.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160090/posts

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040806/dcfv002_1.html

PRINT MATERIALS: 1. What you should know about JOB INTERVIEW SKILLS? “How to

conduct yourself in an interview, pgs. 8&9.

2. WCC welcomes you to the Self-Directed Job Search Worksheet 5-6 “What are you

looking for worksheet of goals,” pg. 7.

3. English on the Job posters in my office—those on speaking, Nos. 6-11.

RUBRIC FOR MARKING:

ASSIGNMENTS TO BE JUDGED…	IN PROGRESS…KEEP WORKING.	SATISFACTORY	IDEAL	POSSIBLE SCORE	YOUR SCORE
Team Work, Both on the computer and during presentation	Worked collectively with your partner	Worked collectively with your partner, showed maturity and courtesy	Above and beyond satisfactory, showed leadership qualities	30%
Worksheets #1-6	Answered most questions adequately	Answered all questions adequately	Answered all questions adequately, showed advanced understanding	50%
8-Slide Power Point Presentation on your Topic	Did not address all of the issues or make a very convincing argument	Has all of the required issues in the Presentation, but the PPT is not very convincing	Shows how each required issue is relates to your side, and the PPT is clear and convincing	100%
Presented your PPT	Showed up unprepared and presented the PPT poorly because of this	Showed up well prepared and presented your side clearly and were articulate	Above and beyond well prepared, added a lot to the actual Presentation aside from the computer, great presenter	20%

CONCLUSION: You have researched the problem of teen unemployment
and developed a pamphlet to help teens get started on job interviewing. Good work!
I’m sure the Bureau of Employment really appreciates your efforts. The next
pamphlet will include more about job interviewing.