The improvisational nature of The Interviewing Process video is designed to inspire discussion among your students. Because it adds a level of authenticity to the interviews, students will be prompted to use their own critical thinking capacities to decide what they may do in their own interviews. A handout (What You Need to Know About the Interviewing Process) accompanies this instructor's material. You can distribute this to your students to follow as they watch the video. A number of exercises and discussion points are included in this material (see Exercises and Discussion Points) to help you guide students in classroom discussion, or to use as assignments for students to consider on their own.

Depending on the nature of your course and the time that you have to devote to this topic, there are a number of ways we recommend you show this video:

• Ideally, you will have time enough to show both 20-minute portions of this video. You can show Segment One in its entirety, to give students a chance to see the whole interviewing process from start to finish. We recommend that you take time to discuss reactions to this segment afterwards. You can use the Exercises and Discussion Points to direct the conversation. If you are able to devote multiple class periods to this topic, you may want to assign these as take home, allowing students to consider their answers, or even do some independent research on their own (see Resources). You can then show Segment Two, and follow-up with further discussion on how students felt about these additional interviews. At this point you may ask students to break into groups to conduct their own mock interviews, to practice the strategies they have just seen.
  
  
• If you do not have time enough to show all 40 minutes of this video, we recommend that you begin with Segment One, as it will give the complete picture. You can follow this up with discussion and mock interviewing if time permits. You may also want to show one or two of the additional interviews, if you have the time. We would recommend "The Informational Interview" as it differs most from the other interviewing situations, and illustrates a key strategy in job exploration.
  
  
• Though this video works best when coupled with class-time discussion, to help students process what they have seen and figure out for themselves what works best, your particular schedule may not allow for this. In that case, it is recommended that you use the Exercises and Discussion Points as take-home assignments to encourage students to think critically about the interviewing process. The Interviewing Process is packed with strategies and concepts that allow it to stand on its own, however, encouraging follow-up in your students will help them to understand this process better.