Monday was a day of learning many new skills!! Students had presentation, interview skills and a careers workshop today.
In the presentation skills work shop.... In the presentation skills workshop students were challenged to
design a radio station, including the concept, business model, average
day's programming and even a jingle! The prize of fudge from The Fudge Kitchen was well
earnt by the winning teams!
The
interview skills workshop was run by an experienced human resourcer who
has interviewed hundreds of candidates. Questions such as "who are
you?" and "what is your greatest fault?" are very difficult to answer on
the spot, yet often come up in interviews for a wide range of jobs.
Students were encouraged to explore who they are as potential employees
and students, as well as what makes them special.
Questions requiring candidates to give evidence of possessing a
particular skill or experience, such as "give me an example of when you
worked in a team were also explored. The workshop will prove very useful
for upcoming university interviews, as well as job and internship
interviews in the future.
That evening students enjoyed Thai food in the garden followed by a
careers seminar run by an advisor for the Oxford University careers
service. Students were encouraged to explore the wide range of careers
in existence by listing the different jobs related to household objects
such as a music album or bottle of weed killer. Students were then
given questions asked by top consulting firms and challenged to tackle
them in groups. They did very well to come up with answers to tough
questions quickly - for example coming up with the next date composed
entirely of numbers which did not repeat themselves!
The
main task of the session was designed to mimic "assessment centre" type
of tasks, where job candidates are given tasks to complete in groups
and assessed on how they work as a team. Students were challenged to
build a tower as cheaply as possible, with a minimum height of 60cm,
able to hold withstand a weight being placed on top of it. We had some ingenious designs from students, as they all were experienced tower-builders after their spaghetti and marshmallow towers made on the first night of the summer school!
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