The last workshop we did was a “face to face” interview. Everyone took a random paper from an envelope. The papers had either the position we would apply for or the position of a boss who would hold the interview.
We kept our role for ourselves, so that we didn’t know who we were going to be facing when demonstrating the interview. During preparation time we worked individually and everyone prepared in a different way. The bosses had to prepare questions while the candidates mainly spent their time researching their “dream job”, since most of the jobs were quite unusual. It was also helpful to make up a backstory for our characters, but when it was finally time to hold the interviews and we found out who our pairs were, most of us had to resort to improvisation anyway. One pair after another we performed our interviews. It was surprising to see that there was very little silence between the questions and almost no I don’t know’s. the participants, even though often caught unprepared, managed to get answers off the tops of their heads, just like they might have to do in real job interviews. Next up was feedback again, not only from our team leaders, but this time from us as well.
One think in particular that most participants liked was the diversity of the jobs and their uniqueness, from strippers to soldiers, secretary to journalist, shaorma maker to beer taster, bodyguard to DJ, waiter to cosmetician, the selection was wide.