Rotary Links Youth with Business

FROME ROTARY LINKS YOUTH WITH BUSINESS

240 students from Year 10 at Frome College took part in a mock interview programme organised by Frome Rotary Club on 11th and 12th March.  

This is the fifth year of this successful scheme which forms part of the College Work Related Learning Curriculum .   It is designed to prepare young people for real interviews for further education or employment by providing them with experience in presenting themselves to adult interviewers and is supported by a comprehensive handbook provided by the Club for the guidance of students, staff and interviewers. 

The students were interviewed by forty panels of two interviewers over two days.  Sixty  interviewers took part, representing many local employers together with individuals representing a variety of careers such as banking, air traffic control, medicine, surveying and many others.  Following a 15 minute interview based on an application form they had previously submitted , the students were then invited to discuss with the interview panel what they had gained from the interview and were issued with a certificate as evidence of their experience. 

The employers supporting the scheme included Asda, Frome Medical Practice, Aggregate Industries, Dairy Crest, Butler Tanner & Dennis, Hanson, CPM Group Ltd, Garston Vetenary Group, Ames Kent, Rogers & Co, Harris & Harris,  Silva House Vetenary Group, TBT Ltd, Cooper & Tanner NVB Architects, Taylor Kendall, Steven Lee Consultants, Frome Town Council, Mendip District Council, Bluejay Design, McAllisters, Rossetti House Care Home  Frome Chamber of Commerce, Yumble Crumble, Army Careers

Peter Smith, on behalf of the Rotary team, said