Seminar 1: Asking effective questions

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Seminar 1 Asking effective questions
conductingeffective interviews

• About the seminar
• Joining the workforce soon?
• Get to know more about a career interest.
  Interview a professional of your choice!

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Overview

• About the seminar
• (purpose assessment)
• Information interview
• (purpose importance procedures)
• Selecting a field of work

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About the seminar

• focuses highly on asking effective interview
  questions
• other sections such as the pre-interview
  post-interview procedures are to be conducted
  independently

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Purpose

• By the end of the seminar, you should be able to
• produce ask questions to
• elicit information.
• conduct effective interviews.

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Assessment Oral Interviews

• What?
• conduct a 10-15 minute individual information
  interview with a professional of your choice
  based on your selected field of work and topic
• Why?
• to explore a career field of interest
• How?
• Form a list of questions for the interview
• Audio record the interview for assessment
  purposes (ensure that you do not ask questions
  which require the interviewee to disclose
  confidential information)
• If your interview should last more than 15
  minutes, you will be assessed on
• the opening, representative parts of the body of
  the interview the closing.
• You need not ask all the questions which you
  have prepared but need to

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Assessment Tasks Peer
Feedback

• What you need to bring
• A laptop (If you have no access to one, do your
  questions on paper)
• What you will write
• A list of questions for the interview
• What you will be taught
• how to prepare conduct information interviews
• What you need to carry out
• tasks to be completed every session (tasks will
  be used as feedback)

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Assessment Criteria Value

• conduct an effective interview (content,
  relevance, structure format, language
  pronunciation)
• Oral interviews individually graded _at_ 30
• Tasks peer feedback individually graded_at_
  part of 20 of the participation grade

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Assessment Submission format

• submit the 10-15 minute interview recording on a
  CDR/RW (mp3 format)
• submit in writing (soft hard copies) a list of
  questions which you have prepared for the
  interview the list of questions which you
  actually asked during the interview.