Overview
in cooperation with
with Coca-Cola Hungary. Within this framework, each month
#myfuture
training sessions every month, which are fast-track career development opportunities for people with disabilities.
Brigitta Pokk
from the poster and poster text to the contact with partners and applicants and the administration.
The 4-hour training is designed to help people with special needs (people with disabilities, people with special needs, etc.) to find a job more successfully and to make them more purposeful in their online and offline communication. As part of the training, we offer some self-awareness and job interview warm-ups – practical tips, tools and experiences to take away with you when you attend our training sessions.
For me as coordinator…
…I had the privilege of being both an organiser and a participant. One role is more exciting than the other 🙂
Organising involves a certain amount of pressure, of stomach-churning; will people sign up, will they come to the training, have I communicated enough about the opportunity, has it reached everyone who is targeted… etc.
As a participant, I was mainly moved. It’s a good feeling that those I communicated with by email remained enthusiastic throughout and participated in the training. Not to mention how much the participants open up and become more encouraged as the training progresses. Even a startled silent person becomes an enthusiastic reviewer and commentator.
This training is a journey to get to know ourselves better, and it is easy to develop good friendships with the other participants, or to become helpful supports for each other.
How does a training session work?
The training is divided into modules and is thematic. It is divided into self-awareness, communication, feedback and job interview.
The first part is a self-awareness thread. After a short introduction, the participants start to get to know each other in a more playful way: a first name and an adjective that they like to use to describe themselves. You can then pass on the word and remember your own indicator for later. Afterwards, participants can reflect on specific questions about themselves: they can try to focus on their strengths, special skills and qualities. Then we turn to the topic of work: why is it important for them to work, why do they want to work?
In the second and third parts, the group will analyse how to build relationships with others and how to communicate. For example, handshakes will be scrutinised, and participants will also create an interactive contact cloud to find out who they most often keep in touch with. There is a lot of talk about realistic and unrealistic feedback and the appropriate form of feedback, both from the majority society and individual responsibility in these situations. By the end of this part, the atmosphere is usually completely relaxed and intimate, and participants experience a sense of community.
The last part is about a specific job interview – and how to prepare for it. Here, participants can test themselves in a concrete job interview situation and get positive and constructive feedback.
