The Bsol Training Hub were invited to attend Colmers School annual Interview Day Event in May for their Year 10 students, where the students get the chance to ‘apply’ for a job and be interviewed by a professional within that career.

In preparation for the day, we created job adverts for Healthcare Support Workers and Administrator roles working within primary care that were shared with the students.

On the day, we were given a list of students each that we were scheduled to see, and prior to meeting with them, we went through their CVs and application packs and scored them based on, first impressions, body language and eye contact, appearance, attendance/lateness percentages at school, previous work experience, quality of answers and overall performance. We were able to give honest feedback at the end of the interview and offer them the job if we felt that they excelled, which we did on a few occasions.

We felt that the day was extremely beneficial to the students as we were able to provide them with tips on what an employer would be looking for, grow their confidence and help to prepare them for what to expect when going into a real life interview in the future.

To be able to offer the next generation this unique opportunity left us feeling hopeful for their futures, and is something that we would like to support other schools and their students with in the future.