So yesterday, Friday 16th we held a CV writing and Proposal formation session at our Youth Resource Center aka 'The Garage'. We put out radio adverts and posters in the local University to try and entice the youth to come along and learn. As this was quite a specific skill sharing event we didn't expect high numbers. In the end we had 17 youths which was a really good number for the session as it felt that each individual would take away something from the lesson. First we ran through a basic CV (we created a template CV handout with tips) and then asked them to write their own. We went round helping them to do this to ensure they created it in the correct format. Then we taught them about cover letters and what not to do! The proposal writing part is key for university students who take modules in this area so we ran through another handout on this. Then we split them into two groups and we helped them to come up with a fake proposal. Overall all this skills seemed to have benefited them and we hope that they all learn't something. They were very happy at the end and came and thanked us all for the session! Here are the pics:
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| The students registered upon entering and were given the two handouts, pens and paper. |
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| Tom running through an example CV up on the board. |
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| Two students writing out their template CVs. |
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| Flavia running through the ins and outs of a cover letter. |
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| Tom and I facilitating the session on Project Proposals. |
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| One group that had split off to create a fake proposal. |
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| The other group that split up to write a proposal. |
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| Sarah, Flavia and I trying to cox ideas for the proposal out of the youth. |
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| Alex and I looking dapper. |
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| This is all the members of the office and those who helped run the sessions. We had t-shirts printed for our YRC which all the staff are wearing. |
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| This is another group picture by the signpost advertising the YRC outside the NGO Forum Office. |