Mock job interviews prep Monroe teens for real-world career starts

A recent class day at Monroe High School saw the teaching of one of life’s most important, real-world scenarios for teens as they went through mock job interviews.

The students dressed up in business attire for a series of interviews conducted by Monroe High School and Butler Tech instructors, building administrators and more than 50 volunteers from local businesses and organizations.

It’s all designed to duplicate, as best possible, the essential adult situation of effectively presenting themselves and their skills to a potential employer.

Joellen Turvey, a family and consumer sciences teacher for the school’s Butler Tech program, described the school exercise as a learning opportunity for students to experience for the first time the “productive pressure of presenting themselves.”

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