Fitted For Work - Better Interview Skills For Financial Independance
Fitted For Work is a women's charity to support economic independence and empowerment for all women. Serious Woo partnered with the organisation to present an experiential learning component to its ‘Return to Work’ program at Dame Phyllis Frost and Tarrangower women’s prisons.
Focusing on confidence in job interviews, our experiential learning course assisted the women to identify their strengths and weaknesses, elaborating and describe moments of pride in their lives, evaluate their career trajectory, navigate tough questioning and build self-confidence in a trusting and non-threatening environment.
Training Difference
Within the prison system, women are often reluctant to discuss their history or personal information within a group, prohibiting self-learning and effective interview techniques.
With Serious Woo, we adapted the course to use experiential learning. Using an actor who was applying for a fake job, the women were able to remain impersonal by asking questions about the actor E.G. ‘what would SHE say if.....’.
Inverting the learning allowed the women to ask the questions they wanted without exposing them to any vulnerability or personal admission. This trusting, free environment created a space to explore and build confidence without leading women into uncomfortable territory.
Post Program Evaluation
An increased sense of self-confidence in their
skills
Clarity around how to answer difficult questions
in an interview situation
Improved commitment to regaining
employment
Program Objectives
Identify strengths and weaknesses and
understand how to articulate them
Overcome nerves and remain calm during
questioning
Develop confidence when talking about self
I struggle with interviews but I found skills I didn’t think I had. Now I have a better understanding of the things I should be thinking of and doing.
Workshop Participant, anonymous.