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Youth Recruitment Input Workshop
Design job-related recruitment questions and evaluation with young people, practising only on fictional answers under adult supervision.
- People
- 4–12
- Base procedure time
- 90 minutes
- Recording
- Shared record
Purpose: Make a decision; Explore through dialogue.
English guide
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How this method works
A method for designing job-related recruitment questions and evaluation with young people. Choose their involvement from recruitment copy, questions or written tasks, interviews, and post-interview discussion, then test observation points and scoring on fictional answers. Arrange personal consent, handling after withdrawal, payment, confidentiality, and data access, use, storage, and deletion in advance. Never leave only candidates and young people together: provide at least 2 adult facilitators and separate them immediately after inappropriate contact. The recruitment lead receives young people’s assessments and records the final judgement, views not adopted and reasons, and response date. The output is a question/evaluation sheet with clear supervision and response contacts. This description is an original adaptation of UK government guidance, with changes under OGL 3.0. Do not use it for real interviews without the safety lead, at least 2 adult facilitators, and the recruitment lead.
Phase schedule
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- Choose roles, consent, and involvement stages0–15 minutes from the start (15 minutes)
Action: Choose. Participation: Everyone, the safety lead, and the backup.
Shared record
- Design questions and observation points15–35 minutes from the start (20 minutes)
Action: Design. Participation: Groups of 2–4.
Shared record
- Test scoring with fictional answers35–55 minutes from the start (20 minutes)
Action: Test. Participation: Groups of 2–4.
Shared record
- Check adult supervision, confidentiality, and safety55–70 minutes from the start (15 minutes)
Action: Check. Participation: Everyone and at least 2 adult facilitators.
Shared record
- Confirm weighting, responsibility, and responses70–90 minutes from the start (20 minutes)
Action: Confirm. Participation: Everyone and the adult recruitment lead.
Shared record
Facilitation steps
- For 15 minutes, check personal consent, post-withdrawal handling, payment, safety lead and backup, job requirements, and evaluation weighting.
- For 15 minutes, choose stages to join and not join from design, questions or tasks, youth interviewing, and discussion.
- For 20 minutes, develop questions, written tasks, and observation points from job criteria and separate personal information candidates will not be asked to provide.
- For 20 minutes, score 3 fictional answers, removing ambiguous criteria, conflicts of interest, and judgements that claim to represent all young people.
- For 10 minutes, confirm at least 2 adult facilitators, confidentiality, breaks, consultation, and stopping and separation after inappropriate contact.
- For 10 minutes, record who incorporates youth assessments, adult final recruitment responsibility, acceptance or rejection and reasons for non-use, and the response deadline.
If something changes
If
Before starting, the safety lead or backup is missing, fewer than 2 adult facilitators are available, or the recruitment lead, weighting of youth assessments, or response deadline is missing.
Then
Do not bring young people together with candidates. Have only the organisation confirm responsible people, the scope of input, deadlines, and a rescheduling date.
If
Even one person indicates withdrawal of consent, a break, leaving, or a design-only role.
Then
Without requiring reasons, stop interviewing, scoring, and recording. Return, delete, or anonymise existing records as the person chooses and stop their use. Do not reduce payment or participation opportunities.
If
Even once, a candidate directs an inappropriate question, contact, or intimidation towards a young person.
Then
Adult facilitators immediately stop the interview and recording and separate the young person from the candidate. The safeguarding lead and recruitment lead respond.
Preparation
Materials
- One job, evaluation-criteria, and weighting sheet per person
- One questions, tasks, and observation-points sheet per group
- 3 anonymous fictional practice answers per group
- One copy per person explaining consent, handling after withdrawal, payment, confidentiality, safety lead, and backup
- One card per person for 2 adult facilitators and consultation contacts
- One shared sheet for data collection, access, storage, deletion, and response deadlines
- One thick pen per person
Room and setup
- Arrange a safeguarding lead, backup, at least 2 adult facilitators, recruitment lead, emergency procedures, and individual consultation contacts. If any is missing, do not bring young people together with candidates.
- Provide participation routes reaching diverse backgrounds and times suitable for young people. Explain plainly personal consent, required procedures, withdrawal, no disadvantage from non-participation, payment conditions, and handling after withdrawal.
- Show job criteria, stages involving young people, evaluation weighting, adult final recruitment responsibility, who incorporates the input, response deadline, acceptance or rejection and reasons for not using input. Do not ask anyone to represent all young people.
- Minimise personal data about candidates and young people. Decide access, purpose, storage location and period, and deletion date. Practise only with fictional answers and do not reuse them as records of real interviews.
Adjust for people and time
With 4 people, form one group. With 5–8, form 2 groups of 2–4; with 9–12, form 3 groups of 2–4, with sizes differing by no more than 1. Every group tests questions and observation points on the same fictional answers, with at least 2 adult facilitators supervising everyone. With 13 or more people, use separate sessions, each with a safety lead, backup, and recruitment lead.
Safety and non-applicable situations
Do not bring candidates and young people together without all required safety, backup, supervision, recruitment-authority, weighting, and response arrangements. Provide at least 2 adult facilitators; stop interviewing and recording and separate the young person immediately after inappropriate questions, contact, or intimidation. Respect withdrawal, breaks, leaving, and design-only roles without reasons or reduced payment/opportunities. Apply the person’s chosen post-withdrawal record handling and stop use. Adults retain final recruitment responsibility and must explain decisions and non-use of youth input.
Historical translation and source notes
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- The source phase minutes are 15/20/20/15/20, while its six step allocations are 15/15/20/20/10/10. Both total 90 minutes, but the step boundaries do not align with the named phase boundaries. This draft preserves both schedules without regrouping or retiming them.
Manuscript's recorded references
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- GOV.UK Methods for engaging young people: Youth input in recruitment
Adaptation under OGL-3.0; changes made
- Conditions of OGL-3.0
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
OGL-3.0
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