Got another job!

Torry_Quine

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

But the best and most unexpected one happened today. I was having a coaching session with my only male coachee. He has been unemployed for five years and is in his fifties, and we were discussing his transferable skills and where he had worked, when a word popped into my head . The word was the name of a small outlet in my city where they recondition white goods and resell them. (We actually bought a washing machine and tumble dryer off them recently). My coachee had worked in a warehouse, had had a job delivering white goods, and had some retail experience. Seemed just right for him.

Anyway I acted on a hunch, rang the place up to see if they had any vacancies, explaining who I was and telling them about my coachee's experience.

Would you believe, they DO have a vacancy and my coachee has an appointment tomorrow . He is pleased but very nervous, so I have had to give him a quick 'coach' in interview skills. He has not really had an interview before, he worked at one place for decades and the other jobs he has had have been by word of mouth.

As ours is a CAP Job Club and all the Coaches are Christians, we also prayed for him after everyone had gone home.

I'll let you know how he gets on. I'm excited. It's just what the JOb Club is about

That's brilliant. I'll be praying it goes well for him

seven-day-weekend

He completely blew the interview. It could not have been worse if he had tried.

Oh well, it's all good practise.

seven-day-weekend

I have had this text today from one of my coachees who has just started a new job (as a cleaner in a school which is only five minutes walk from where she lives):


'B..., I got on really well yesterday at the job, the supervisor said we will get on well! I loved it, I am so happy, thank you, love T'

This makes it all worthwhile . :T:T This particular lady now has this job (12.5 hours) and another one cleaning a small commercial building (5 hours). There are also some morning cleaner hours going at the school where she has just started as an evening cleaner, I have advised her to apply for those too. Brilliant outcome.

I also had a text from another of my coachees who was waiting for her CRB check to come through, to inform me that it has come through and she is now volunteering as a Teaching Assistant at a school on a direct bus route to where she lives. Hopefully at the end of the month they will take her on (the school has paid for the CRB check); if not she will be able to go onto the supply pool and get work that way.

I'm so pleased, it's made up for my male coachee blowing his interview and I will be able to concentrate on him on Thursday.