We had practice interview sessions even in high school business classes when I was in school. On those days, we were expected to dress in business attire and were critiqued on that as well as our responses to questions by the interviewer.
Government public skools have done a great disservice to an entire generation of students. The next generation doesn’t seem to be getting anything better.
Was interviewing potential legal assistants 5 years ago. Every one of the Gen Z’ers used the “I’m a sponge” line - as in “I soak up all the learning you can give”. The problem is, none of them could wring out the learning from the sponge. One of them had a letter of recommendation from a professor saying what a hard worker she was. Notsomuch...