I've been involved in interviews this week, for the Deputy Manager post at my placement. As part of the interview they had to do a group exercise, and along with another staff members and some service users, I was in the group.
I'm not the most confident person in group settings and was quite nervous about it even though they were looking at the interviewee not me, but it was actually perfectly fine.
Three of the people interviewed were internal applicants and it was quite strange seeing them in the interview, all nervous and dressed up!
During my course we have done workshops in listening skills and it was useful to be able to use them while thinking about how they approached the group session. Obviously we didn't get a say in who got the job, but I liked the fact that they asked us about the session and let us give our opinions on that at least. The reason I was asked to take part if because I'm fairly new so the staff don't know me very well compared to the regular staff, but even so I felt that I got a lot out of it. If nothing else, I got to spend time with a couple of service users who I'd never met before.

On Tuesday I have a 'Student Information Day' which from what I've heard is just a chance for someone at the council to tell us how great they are and how we should work for them. I really hope it's more than that, considering that Tuesday is staff-meeting day and if I'm taking a day away from my placement, it would be nice to know it was for some logical purpose.