Part of Lesson Plan: Job Applications

Activity Overview / Details

Enlist a student and give them the following script, they are the manager, you are the applicant.

      Write: Hiring, inquire within  on the board

Have students come in one at a time

  1. An applicant (you) approaches a busy employee and asks if they are hiring, employee just tells them no because applicant interrupted them with a customer (another student).

2.  An applicant (you) comes in and asks for the manager, you are having a good conversation when your cell phone starts ringing; you ask if they minded if you told the other company you would call them back in a few minutes.

3. An applicant (you) comes in with shirt hanging out, rolled up piece of paper representing a cigarette in pocket or hand, collar askew, etc. asking for a job.

4. An applicant (you) come in with their portfolio, dressed appropriately, asks for the manager, shakes hands, introduces themselves, and asks if they could fill out a job application.

Put the words "Good job search skills"            "Poor job search skills"    on the board.

Ask the students to share as a large group what they saw in the role playing situations.

Write their answers on the board under each heading.