As part of the activities in December of 2010, AEGEE – Skopje implemented the Employment Action Days, part of the „Youth UnEmployment Project“. We chose two from the offered topics and both action days went very well.
Before the beginning of each EAD there was time to introduce the participants with AEGEE and the „Youth UnEmployment Project“ and explain them why we are having this EADs.
The first one was dedicated to the subject „All About Getting a Job“, we had trainer from the National Center for Development of Innovation and Enterprenurial Learning and about 60 participants. Bojan Jovanovski, the trainer, was talking about ways of job-finding, how to act during job interview, writting CV and motivational letters and the students were participating in the presentation constantly by asking questions. They were realy into the topic, sharing different experiences of job interviews and job searching, asking for advices for their CVs and motivational letters etc. The point of the whole workshop was to motivate the participants and lead them to look for the job of their dreams, but, also, emphasize the good characteristics and experiences they have in front of their new potential employer.
The second EAD was held a week later and it was about volunteering, „Volunteering – it’s working experience!“. I was talking about volunteering in general and ways to use the volunteering experience as working experience. I was, also, talking about the attitude of the employers towards volunteers and why they would prefer employing a former or current volunteer. Me and the participants were mutualy sharing experiences and talking about places to volunteer in our country and internationaly. After my presentation we had guest presenter, Ondrej Masiar, an EVS volunteer in Skopje. He was realy kind for having a presentation for EVS and sharing his personal experience with the participants. They became more interested in the topic during the EAD and lot of them were enthusiastic about volunteering in the future.
Simona Dimovska
President of AEGEE – Skopje
EAD responsible in AEGEE – Skopje
