This two-hour training session uses individual and group activities, video, and mock interviews to help trainees learn how to handle tough interview questions such as "Why should I hire someone convicted of a crime?"

Designed for the non-professional trainer (corrections staff, probation and parole officers, case managers, alternative school counselors), this curriculum provides a step-by-step, easy to follow format. Copyright 2004.

The format consists of:

• Lecture
  
• Mock interviews
  
• Video presentation
  
• Overhead transparency presentation
  
• Group activity facilitation

• A comprehensive Facilitator's Guide and a video, Ex-Offenders CAN Ace the Interview
• 10 "Workbook/Toolkit" pamphlets (for use by 10 trainees; more may be purchased separately)
  
• One "Interview Skills Survival Guide for Ex-Offenders" booklet
  
• Reproducible pre- and post-assessments
  
• Trainee handouts
  
• Detailed guidelines
  
• Overhead transparencies

• Provide an understanding of offender-specific interview barriers
  
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the offender's interview skills
  
• Identify and develop strategies for addressing interview barriers
  
• Increase trainer's ability to advice and counsel trainees on their interview skills