Show Me That I Matter / Children’s Rights and Advocacy Service, leads a team of Young Interviewers.
The aim of having a Young persons interview panel is to make sure the council is employing the right people to work with Children and young people. A professionals interview panel does not always ask the questions that young people would like to know and tends to focus more on the qualification and experience a candidate has.
Young people are good at thinking outside the box, and they know what they want and what they need from the people who work with them. Having a Young persons Interview panel can be a great opportunity for a recruiting team to find out if there candidate is really any good at interacting with young people and paints a more round picture of there skills and attributes.
SMTIM Young interviewers have been trained to a professional standard, and the interview panels are an evermore expanding success.
Although SMTIM has run interview panels in different ways in the past the most common format is:
We have plenty more information about the all-round benefits of having a young person’s interview panel. If you have interviews coming up and would like to have a young person’s panel you can get in touch to find out more.
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If you are a young person in care/care leaver under the age of 21/ or know a young person that may be interested in being involved in any of our groups you can register interest in a couple of ways.