Name:______________

Personal Interview Project

This project has been designed to help you begin to understand the relationship
between your personal attributes and types of work that you might be interested in. Part
of that process involves recognizing and describing transferable skills that you have
developed or are developing through school and recreational activities. At the end of
this project, I want you to be able to say, "I can describe skills that I have and am
developing at school and in my life."

Project Steps
1. Write your own answers to the interview questions on the back of this page
(before being interviewed, the interviewee often knows what questions are going
to be asked of him or her beforehand so that he or she can prepare for the
interview).
2. With a partner, take turns (a) asking him or her the questions and listening
carefully to their responses, perhaps asking clarifying or follow-up questions and
(b) answering the questions he or she asks you.
3. After you have finished interviewing your partner and having him or her interview
you, make some notes about your partner's answers.
4. Exchange notes with your partner, so that each of you can make suggestions
about changes, additions, and deletions (i.e., check to see if his or her
description of your answers clearly and accurately reflects you).
5. Take your partner's feedback into account as you make revisions and edits to
your description of your partner and turn your description into a description of
your partner that you can share with the class (think of how to organize your
presentation so that it is interesting to the class). See the criteria for this piece of
writing on the back of this page.
6. Each student is going to make a presentation "introducing" their partner to the
class (i.e., sharing the information obtained during the interview process). The
criteria for this presentation is on the back of this page.

Interview Questions
1. What is your favourite subject in school?
2. Describe some skills (relating to school work) that you are proud of (either
because you are already good at them or because you are making progress with
them)?
3. What is something you do outside of school that classmates might not know
about?
4. Tell me about some skills that you have developed outside of school (either on
your own or during a recreational activity that you participate in).
5. If a picture of you were to appear in the newspaper, what would the caption say?
6. From the list of needs that you have in your H.A.C.E. section, which ones are
most important to you (sometimes, those needs are called "values," so which
ones do you value the most)?
7. How do you solve problems (when faced with a challenge, what things do you do
to meet it)?
8. Tell a story about when you best demonstrated a growth mindset (the ability to
develop a new skill or improve an already-existing skill, or the ability to learn from
mistakes).

Criteria
Written Description

It clearly describes your partner's attributes and skills and gives a sense of
what is important to him or her and how he or she responds to challenges.
It is organized into a meaningful sequence, and topics are broken up into
paragraphs.
It uses words that impactfully give the audience a sense of your partner.
The sentences flow smoothly and have some variety in their lengths and
structures.
Words are spelled correctly, and sentences start with capital letters and
end with punctuation.

Presentation

You speak clearly, project your voice, and face the audience.
You act professionally and use body language and gestures appropriate
for respectfully introducing your partner to the class.
The content of your presentation reflects the things in your written
description.