Management skills

Alternative Assignment: Component B – Task 1 - Interviewing skills

This assignment should only be completed if you have not attended the interviewing skills

practical roleplay sessions.

It should be submitted via Blackboard as part of your Management Skills portfolio together with

Tasks 2-4 on 12 December.

Do not send to your module leader or workshop tutor for marking.

TASK

Please read the advert for the ENTERPRISE placement and watch the video of the manager (Andy)

interviewing the candidate (Emily) for that vacancy. Complete the following task:

Write a 500-word analysis of the experience of the manager in the video interview. You should explain

elements of his interviewing skills by reference to the relevant literature and theories and critically

analyse his performance in the context of the literature. You should also identify how he could

improve in future and support this by reference to the relevant literature and theory.

Please include the following title in the heading of your task to indicate that you have completed the

alternative assignment: ‘ALTERNATIVE ASSIGNMENT: INTERVIEWING SKILLS – ENTERPRISE

PLACEMENT ANALYSIS’

Please refer to the workshop 2 – preparation slides for details of the conceptual frameworks and the

academic literature that may be appropriate for your analysis.

Tips

• Write your analysis on the performance of the manager. • Don’t be too descriptive. It is easy to write what happens, it’s the why, how and what if which

is really important. • Concentrate on 2 issues to allow suitable depth of coverage and integration of literature. • Draw on relevant theory within your answers. • Proof read - read your work aloud to yourself.

Marking criteria

Critical analysis into strengths and limitations of the managers performance

Integration of theory with analysis of performance

Identification and justification of steps for improvement

Quality of writing and good academic practice