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Developing Expertise in
Work-Based Learning and
Teaching Assessment (DELTA)
www.deltaproject.eu

people the chance to find out for themselves, through activities such as career talks and job shadowing,
what it is like to follow different occupational and learning pathways, including apprenticeships.

Publish your training offer also on your Internet presence, describe there the occupation profile. If you use
social networks, also post your free traineeships there.

2.4.Select and hire trainees
Before a company owner or, to be more precise, the training employer can start looking for suitable
trainees, he should think about the prerequisites potential trainees should fulfil:

• What level of schooling should applicants have completed?
• In which subjects should they have earned good marks?
• What personal traits – technical skills or the ability to communicate, for example – are important
for working at the company?

Companies can search for trainees through the Employment Agency or an advertisement. In any event, the
employer should clearly state the requirements training place applicants must satisfy.

Exactly as with the choice of employees employers select their future trainee in
the applicant’s interview. Beside the personal impression, it is an aim of the
application interview to gain the first impression about social behaviour (social
competence and personality competence). In general is valid: Methods can be
learnt; social abilities should already exist (“the nose must fit”). The preparation
of an overview about the abilities important for the enterprise (e.g. capability
and motivation) can be helpful. Small exercises can proof the professional and
methodical competences of candidates (professional questions, small
experiments, something to assemble and take apart).

During the interview the employer To gain extensive information, the Possible questions include:
should be able to make himself / interview should follow the following • Why do you think that this is the
herself a picture about the following structure: right occupation for you?
qualities of the applicant: ● Welcome; introduction of the • What made you apply to our
● Initiative, interview, company?
● Ability to handle stress, ● The interview, • What do you think your
● Working willingness, however, ● Aim of the conversation, occupational future will look like five
also team ability, ● Professional and personal years from now?
development,

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