Volunteer Mentor Review
by City Year UK
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at City Year UK
- 7. Would you recommend City Year UK to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to City Year UK
Overview
I worked with 10-12 students in a secondary school, supporting them one-on-one, small group and in class with there curriculum, social-emotional development, attendance, and enrichment, this was full-time in a school four days a week Mon-Thu with Fridays official training days. An overview of my day consisted of breakfast club first thing in the morning, gate duty once a week during PDM, and for every lesson I was either in class with students, doing one-to-one mentoring sessions, doing admin such as attendance calls, or logging my activities on VM connect and pastoral duties.
Skills
Some of the key skills which I developed were communication skills as I had to chat to teacher's, students, members of SLT, and members of my team on a regular basis, I also developed time management, management of projects and created my own resources which were all developed initally at university and perfected at this job. New skills I developed were attendance and punctuality as I had 100% attendance, I also developed management and leadership skills with the nature of my role meaning I took on various projects.
Responsibilities
Lots of responsibility with me and my team arranging social action projects to support the community, while I created various mentoring sessions, resources for classes, had a talk in an assembly, taught and ran a couple Go-IT classes.
Support & Guidance
Lots of support from my amazing team, impact officer, the project manager at city year, other members of staff and the program at City Year who throughout were supporting, engaging and is an expirience I will never forget.
Culture
Kind, engaging, understanding, creative, patient, enjoyable and Friendly.
Your Impressions
10/10 it has developed my confidence, self esteem, and purpose in life and has lead to me getting a new role in a job which is similar to this, I am extremly thankful and will never forget what this amazing organisation has done for me, and which it will continue to do for other's
Yes
To go for it and give your best throughout it is a thoroughly enjoyable but hard working expirience which I highly recommend to everyone especially those wishing to work in Education and teaching.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Education/Teaching
West Midlands
August 2023
