In this episode we talked about Role Play Skills and How to Communicate. It was a great conversation about how we deal with Role Play both in the corporate world, for interviews and creating jobs, as well as sharing from Jeff's personal experience about how delt with using role play and the lost relationship with his Father. What we got by doing a role play exercise and how you can benefit from them too.
In this episodes Next Actions we dove deeper into the converstion earlier, so we wanted to give you the action you can take. Have a look below:
Want to create a Role Play? ~ 20 - 25 Minutes -
This activity models one positive and one negative interview in order to demonstrate what is considered appropriate and inappropriate behavior in a job interview. If there is only one staff member, they can play both roles.
Hand out 5 pre-written note cards to participants (1 card per participant). Tell the group to act as the hiring committee for an open position with their company. It helps to give youth a specific job position that they are hiring for, such as Youth Leader at the Y or Office Assistant at the Mayor’s office. The first time through, allow the participants to interview you while you model someone who is prepared and professional. Give answers that provide youth with real life experiences that relate to the job offering at hand. Now, ask for 5 more volunteer interviewers – and have them take the same cards you previously handed out.
Your second staff member (or the same staff member in different clothing) will interview for the same position. The second interviewee should model unprofessional behavior. Examples of this include dressing inappropriately, using informal language, responding to a text mid interview, chewing gum, not making eye contact, and answering questions with incomplete, one-sentence answers. After the second interview, ask the group to point out specific habits and responses that set the two interviewees apart. Jot their answers down on the board. Who would they hire? Why? Use their responses to generate a list of “Good Interview Habits” on the board (or piece of paper), or circle the answers/characteristics of who they would hire.