Panel Interview Writing Sample

• Legal Form Number: BP-A0473
• Date: 2010-06
• Year: 2010
• Section: Federal Bureau of Prisons

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS

BP-A0473

JUN 10 PANEL INTERVIEW WRITING SAMPLE

Applicant's Name: Date:

Position Applying

For:

INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLICANT: Bureau of Prisons employees are frequently required to write reports, make entries in

logs, and respond to correspondence. To help us evaluate your writing skills, please complete the following writing

exercise.

You will be presented with two videotaped correctional work scenarios. View the first scenario as practice only; do not

write about the first scenario. For the second scenario, imagine that you witnessed this situation at the institution. As a

witness, you would be required to write a report describing the situation for

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nstitution staff who were not present. For this

exercise, write a report for your supervisor discussing the videotaped scenario.

In preparing your report, remember that the report will be conveying critical information to your supervisor who was no

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present during the incident. In order to be as thorough as possible when addressing the above questions, you may take

notes while viewing the video.

After viewing the video, you will be given 15 minutes to complete this exercise. Please limit your report to the space

provided below and on the continuation sheet.

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