Mock interview days are straightforward in concept and genuinely useful in practice. A student sits across from someone they have not met before, answers questions about themselves and their ambitions, and gets honest feedback on how they came across. It is often the first time they have done anything like it.
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CGA's Rochelle and Alex visited Beauchamps High School in Essex for the school's annual mock interview day, spending the morning with Year 10 and Year 11 students. The students arrive prepared, or at least trying to be. The value is in the conversation that follows: what worked, what did not, and what to do differently.
The skills involved, making eye contact, structuring an answer, listening before jumping to respond, are not complicated. But they are not instinctive either. They are learned. A morning like this gives students a low-stakes environment to start practising them.
The construction industry needs people, and those people come from schools like Beauchamps. Spending a morning there is a small thing. For some students, a useful one.
Thanks to Beauchamps High School for the invitation, and to the students who gave it their full effort.
