[Cafe] Fwd: BW )(: RE: Volunteering

Tue Jul 1 13:11:03 BST 2008

FYI

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    From: Helen Young <Helen.Young at seetec.co.uk>
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 Subject: BW )(: RE: Volunteering
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Hello Woodsy,

No money involved for either party - we don't do bribes. We encourage
all work experience providers to use their standard interview process to
decide whether any potential volunteer would be capable of making a
worthwhile contribution to their company. We want to avoid 'babysitting'
and promote working independently. A placement should be as like an
actual job role as possible. If someone is going to take up too much
time from your existing staff, they clearly wouldn't be suitable, and
you would have the right to refuse them a placement. 

Also, there's no commitment to four days a week - they can do up to four
days, as previously stated. One day a week is fine with us.

Problems solved?

Helen

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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:30:10 +0100
From: "Helen Young" <Helen.Young at seetec.co.uk>
Subject: BW )(: Volunteering
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Hello everyone,

Nice to 'meet' you all. I hope it is okay for me to ask about this on
here, and apologies to anyone for whom this isn't relevant.

My name is Helen, and I work for Seetec, a training provider in Bristol
city centre, which aims to get people on the New Deal programme back
into work through, amongst other things, funding internal and external
study for work-related qualifications and finding voluntary work
experience placements for our learners. In these, they can gain valuable
skills in their chosen industry and give something back to the community
at the same time.

Quite often, we get jobseekers referred to us looking for opportunities
in IT. We've had self-taught computer hardware buffs, who don't have
their skills quantified the way businesses want with a qualification and
industry experience, programmers with degrees who have had to take some
time out to care for loved ones and find everything has moved on when
they can return to work and IT support whizzes made redundant by
companies who failed to keep their training up-to-date, now struggling
to get their foot back in the door.

I'm writing to ask whether Bristol Wireless or any other company
subscribed to this list could benefit from an extra pair of skilled
hands, for free, up to four days a week for anything up to 12 weeks.
(Knowle West Web Computers have had a few of our learners come to help
out with them, and that's been and continues to be a really positive
partnership.) All you would need to do is provide a safe environment for
the volunteer to work in and become a referee if they do a good job, and
you get the final say as to whom is right for the roles you can offer.
We can also help to set up work trials, if any of you have a vacancy one
of our learners would be suitable to fill.

If you think you could help and could use help or would just like some
more information, get in touch with me - Helen.Young at seetec.co.uk - and
I'll give you some more details.

Kind regards,

Helen

Helen Young

Marketing Co-ordinator

Seetec

4th Floor

Eagle House

Colston Avenue

Bristol.

BS1 1EN

Tel: 0117 9292183

Fax: 0117 9292183

Email: Helen.Young at seetec.co.uk

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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:58:09 +0100
From: Steve Woods <woodsy at bristolwireless.net>
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Quoting Helen Young <Helen.Young at seetec.co.uk>:

> Hello everyone,
>
>
>
> Nice to 'meet' you all. I hope it is okay for me to ask about this on
> here, and apologies to anyone for whom this isn't relevant.
>
>
>
> My name is Helen, and I work for Seetec, a training provider in
Bristol
> city centre, which aims to get people on the New Deal programme back
> into work through, amongst other things, funding internal and external
> study for work-related qualifications and finding voluntary work
> experience placements for our learners. In these, they can gain
valuable
> skills in their chosen industry and give something back to the
community
> at the same time.
>
>
>
> Quite often, we get jobseekers referred to us looking for
opportunities
> in IT. We've had self-taught computer hardware buffs, who don't have
> their skills quantified the way businesses want with a qualification
and
> industry experience, programmers with degrees who have had to take
some
> time out to care for loved ones and find everything has moved on when
> they can return to work and IT support whizzes made redundant by
> companies who failed to keep their training up-to-date, now struggling
> to get their foot back in the door.
>
>
>
> I'm writing to ask whether Bristol Wireless or any other company
> subscribed to this list could benefit from an extra pair of skilled
> hands, for free, up to four days a week for anything up to 12 weeks.
> (Knowle West Web Computers have had a few of our learners come to help
> out with them, and that's been and continues to be a really positive
> partnership.) All you would need to do is provide a safe environment
for
> the volunteer to work in and become a referee if they do a good job,
and
> you get the final say as to whom is right for the roles you can offer.
> We can also help to set up work trials, if any of you have a vacancy
one
> of our learners would be suitable to fill.
>
>
>
> If you think you could help and could use help or would just like some
> more information, get in touch with me - Helen.Young at seetec.co.uk -
and
> I'll give you some more details.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Helen
>
>
>
> Helen Young
>
> Marketing Co-ordinator
>
>
>
> Seetec
>
> 4th Floor
>
> Eagle House
>
> Colston Avenue
>
> Bristol.
>
> BS1 1EN
>
>
>
> Tel: 0117 9292183
>
> Fax: 0117 9292183
>
> Email: Helen.Young at seetec.co.uk
>
>
>
>
>
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Do these volunteers come with money attached, I wonder? Babysitting  
them for 4 days/week is going to mean a lot of work our regulars in  
the lab.

Woodsy

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