CDE Handbook - Florida FFA Association

Job Interview CDE
Purpose
The FFA Job Interview Career Development Event is designed
for FFA members to develop, practice and demonstrate skills
needed in seeking employment in the agricultural industry.
Each part of the event simulates “real world” activities that will
be used by real world employers.
Eligibility
The participant must be an active member of a chartered Florida
FFA chapter in grades 9, 10, 11, or 12. The FFA Job Interview
Career Development Event is limited to one participant per
chapter.
Event Procedures
1. Each participant’s cover letter, resume and application
will be the result of his or her own efforts.
2. Participants will submit a signed statement of originality
on the certification form accompanying these rules.
3. Participants shall be ranked in numerical order on the
basis of the final score to be determined by each judge
without consultation. The judges’ ranking of each
participant then shall be added, and the winner will
be that participant whose total ranking is the lowest.
Other placings will be determined in the same manner.
Event Format
1. Students must provide their own writing utensils.
2. The event is developed to help participants in their current
job search (for SAE projects, part-time and full-time
employment). Therefore, the cover letter and resume
submitted by the participant must reflect their current
skills and abilities and must be targeted to a job for which
they would like to apply. In other words, participants
cannot develop a fictitious resume for a fictitious job.
Instead, they are expected to target the resume towards a
real job that they can qualify.
By May 1st of the year that the participant is competing they will
submit the following to the Florida FFA Association office:
Cover Letter (Points – 100)
1. Ten copies of a single-spaced 8 ½” x 11” white bond paper
letter of intent. The paper is to be single sided only, typed
with no more than ten characters per inch and block
justified.
2. Letter should be addressed to the Superintendent of the
Job Interview CDE
Career Development Event (below) and dated for the first
day of the event.
– Mrs. Shirley Carte
Job Interview CDE Superitendent
Florida FFA Association
5700 SW 34th Street, Suite 106
Gainesville, Florida 32608
Resume (Points – 150)
1. Ten copies of a single-spaced 8 ½” x 11” white bond paper.
The resume is to be single sided only, typed not to exceed
two pages total. Suggested formats can be found in the
Greggs Manual.
2. Resume must be non-fictitious and based upon their work
history.
3. Cover letter and resume must be submitted to the Florida
FFA Association office by May 1st of the year that the
participant is competing.
At the Florida FFA Career Development Event the following will
be completed:
Application (Points – 50)
Students will complete a standard job application on-site, prior to
the personal interview.
Telephone Interview (Points – 150)
1. Students will interview with one of the following three
people:
– Human, Fiscal and Resource personnel director
– Employer’s Assistant
– Employer themselves
2. The telephone interview will last a maximum of three
minutes.
3. Students are to position themselves so that they obtain a
personal interview with the company they are applying.
Student should interview with the thought that the
company has already received their cover letter and
resume.
4. Telephone interview will be conducted in both the
preliminary and final rounds.
Personal Interview (Points – 450)
Each student will interview with three separate judges with
interviews that last no longer than twenty minutes each.
Follow Up Letter (Points – 100)
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