LEAP (Career Preparation) Workshops

The next LEAP (Career Preparation) workshop is scheduled for May 30th at "My Sister's House", in Atlanta. Located near Georgia Tech. If you have HR or business experience, you can help with these workshops. Or you can help with childcare, food service or typing.

 

1. Morning session. Help create or update resumes for women at the Mission (approximately 75-85). Session starts at 8:30 and lasts until Noon. 30 to 35 volunteers needed.
2. Afternoon session. Work on interview skills. What to do before, during and after the interview. The dos and don'ts of a good interview. Hold mock interviews. Time is 1PM till 4PM. 15 to 20 volunteers needed.
3. One hour panel discussion, starts off the afternoon. What are most important to the HR people who do the hiring. Time 1PM till 2PM. 5 or 6 volunteers needed.
4. Type up resumes. As resumes are finished we need people to type the resumes, put them on a hard drive, make a couple of hard copies and return to clients. Time 9:30 till 12:30 and 12:30 till 4Pm. 10 people needed each shift. Really helps if you can bring a laptop.
5. Childcare. 8:15 till Noon and Noon till 4PM. 20 to 25 people needed each shift.
6. Food preparation and service. 9:30 till 1:30. Help serve and prepare food for women and their kids. 15 volunteers needed.
7. Registration, 8PM till Noon, and Noon till 2:30
8. Inspirational speakers. 10 to 15 minutes. Morning session 8:30 till 8:45. Afternoon 1 to 1:15.
   

 

Childcare also needed 8:15 till Noon and 1 till 4:30PM. Great for families!!

Sign up for either the morning resume creating session, 8:30AM till Noon or in the afternoon interview skills session, 1PM till 4:30. Please call Jim at 770 649-7117 if you would like to help at ths workshop or at sometime in the future.

 

      
We have renamed the Career Preparation Workshop, LEAP. The acronym reflects the results of successful workshops: Leadership, Employment, Achievement, and ultimately, Prosperity. These workshops help ladies and older teens, create or update resumes, and ensure that they look professional. As most of us know a professional-looking resume is the first step in getting in the door for an interview. They also give tips on what to do if you have a spotty employment history or have been in trouble with the law. In the afternoon the workshop focuses on interview skills. Most of us can remember the little butterflies flitting around our stomachs, as we prepared to begin an interview. These practice sessions with Human Resource professionals take some of the mystery and trepidation out of preparing for, and during, the interview process.

During the workshops we also set up free e-mail accounts and leave the ladies with both hard copies of their resumes and a disc with the resume so they can update it as needed.

 

For a pdf copy of our LEAP (Career Preparation) Workbook CLICK HERE