Interview Challenge Interview Challenge is an educational board game designed to teach important job interviewing skills. In the game, players compete to give Paula, a fictitious job applicant, the best advice on how to succeed in her interview. In the process of playing the game, players learn eight vital skills for successful interviewing, as well as seven major types of questions and how to answer them. The game contains many excellent answers to typical interview questions that students can use as models for their own answers. Preparation for the interview, interacting with the receptionist, and other topics are also covered. The eight interviewing skills are: Be Prepared Be Positive about Self and Others. Match Your Strengths to the Job. Stress Personal Qualities (such as responsibility). Show You Care. Say What You CAN Do. Support Your Position with Facts. Use Body Language Effectively The seven major types of questions are: Direct request for Information. Questions on Weaknesses Follow-up questions Broad, open ended questions Questions on strengths. Hypothetical questions. Stress Questions The Interview Challenge and Youre Hired! games are in no way repetitive of the each other. Interview Challenge is excellent preparation for mock interviews. Grades 9-adult Learning Objectives: 1. Learn eight important interviewing skills. 2. Learn to identify basic types of questions asked in an interview and how to answer them. 3. Learn about related issues, such as guidelines for dressing, dealing with the receptionist, and follow-up letters. 4. Learn how to stress their own strengths while answering questions. 5. Learn how to be persuasive in oral communication. 6. Learn how the job interview moves through stages from rapport building to the close.
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