Time to get serious!

Two weeks until I go to Southampton for that interview! I’ve made a plan for how to prepare for it (I’m a ‘plan-making’ kind of person) and as I was sent the programme for the interview day it wasn’t very hard.  There will be a group task, which I can’t prepare for really as I will not know the task before hand. However, I had to go through a group task for my last interview and I think I did pretty well (I mean I got the job after all) and I am fairly confident that I’m good in groups. The next part will be an individual interview which will consist of two parts; ‘academic’ and ‘the practice of educational psychology’. So I need to show that I am academic (know what’s going on in educational psychology, etc.) and that I know what educational psychology is about. For this I will prepare through;

Academic;

• Reading recent educational psychology journals
• Reading up on children services issues
• Write down how I have applied psychology in my work settings

Educational Psychology Practice;

• Read EdPsych job descriptions
• Sum up what I know about EdPsych’s and their work
• Write down what I have done to get learn more about Educational Psychology and Educational Psychologists
• Write down my skills and how they will help me in my job as a future EdPsych!

Then the interview will finish with a individual task. For this we’ll be given a short paper that we’ll have to read and summarise, highlighting the key points of the paper. This will be timed so will have to be done in a certain time frame. For this I can simply summarise one or two of the academic papers I will read as preparation for the academic-part of the individual interview.

As you probably understand, I am so nervous about this! It’s like an opportunity of a lifetime! Feel like all this preparation is going to lead me nowhere, but as Benjamin Franklin once said “Failing to prepare is preparing for failure”. So if I don’t prepare I will almost definitely fail! Better make the most of this!

 

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