Preparing for the Phase 2 interview — a practical guide

Phase 2 is a programme assessment rather than an employment recruitment interview. Identità describes a 20-minute live online interview; the Skills Pass FAQ describes a physical interview at a VFS centre lasting 30 minutes. The sources disagree on duration and format; this guide does not resolve that discrepancy.

• English-language proficiency — the Skills Pass FAQ says this is assessed both online and during the interview, and lists an English Proficiency Exam in the online phase. The official sources reviewed for this page do not specify a CEFR level or numeric pass threshold.
• Understanding of the course content — Identità names Living and Working in Malta, and Rights and Obligations in the Workplace. The Skills Pass FAQ also describes questions about the candidate’s role or occupation, including a workplace scenario.

Good preparation is therefore specific: review the module material, and practise speaking about it in conversational English.

Official descriptions include course-understanding checks, follow-up questions and occupation scenarios. Review all the material assigned to you in the portal. The published course topics include:

• From the living and integration course: accommodation and cost of living, social norms and daily life, health and education, transport and waste management, and legal and administrative essentials. These are topics listed on the Skills Pass process page.
• From the workplace course: workplace culture and expectations, avoiding exploitation and knowing your rights, basic hygiene, basic work ethics, and labour law and workers’ rights. These are the topics listed on the Skills Pass process page; use the actual lessons for the details.

As this guide’s practice exercise, choose a situation from your lessons and explain how you would respond using what the course teaches. This is not an official sample question. The official sources reviewed for this page do not provide a complete question bank or a scoring rubric that compares understanding with recall of figures or legal provisions.

Official sources say English is assessed online and during the interview, but do not specify the proficiency threshold. The following exercises are this guide’s suggestions for spoken practice:

1. Speak out loud about the module topics. Choose a topic — say, what to do if you are treated unfairly at work — and explain it in two to three sentences in English. Do this daily in the week before your interview. Speaking about course topics can help you practise the vocabulary you have studied.
2. Practise answering “what would you do if…” questions. These scenario questions require you to apply a principle, not recite a fact. Practise giving a direct answer first — “I would contact my employer in writing and keep a record” — before adding context. This is a practice technique from this guide, not an official answer format or scoring rule.
3. Practise asking for clarification. Saying “I’m sorry, could you repeat the question?” or “do you mean…?” in English is a useful practice exercise. The official sources reviewed for this page do not explain how clarification requests affect scoring.
4. Read the official module topics aloud. If the portal shows you section headings or a syllabus for the modules, reading those aloud — even just the headings — can help you engage the same vocabulary in spoken form that you absorbed in written form.

Check your official booking confirmation for the location, time and documents to bring. Identità describes a live online interview at ITS Malta or an authorised Global Assessment Centre, and separately describes online processing followed by in-person verification. It does not clearly establish two interview appointments. The Skills Pass FAQ describes a physical interview at a VFS centre; its process page specifies the closest centre. If your booking instructions leave this unclear, ask Skills Pass to confirm before travelling.

• Bring any identification or confirmation documents the booking email specifies.
• Plan for travel time with buffer if your booking confirmation gives you a physical centre.
• Official timing descriptions differ between roughly 20 and 30 minutes. Arrive a few minutes early if you are attending at a centre.