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Rating
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Skills
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Responsibilities
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Support & Guidance
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Culture
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Your Impressions
- 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
2 days a week: - Mentoring secondary students to develop their interpersonal skills and address issues around attendance, behaviour, curriculum and social-emotional learning - Providing whole class subject support - Working on team projects through the charity or extracurricular activities like clubs through the school Every Friday: - Training sessions online and in-person to develop interpersonal skills
Skills
Leadership - delivering presentations, supporting volunteer recruitment events, enterprise project Teamwork - working in a small team at the school, completing team projects Organisation & Time Management - completing two CMI qualifications Speaking - delivering mentoring sessions to students
Responsibilities
Yes, I received guidelines for mentoring sessions and had to plan out all of my sessions weekly. My team and I were responsible for supervising during break and lunch duties at the school, as well as planning team projects and extracurricular school events. I was responsible for planning which lessons to support and when to use my allocated admin time to work independently on CMI coursework.
Support & Guidance
I received a lot of support with planning team projects and extracurricular events, but not enough support with mentoring and working with students, especially in regards to those with SEND needs or challenging behaviour. I did not receive any training on how to provide academic support through teaching.
Culture
In my team, there was a positive atmosphere - my impact officer encouraged and motivated us when we were in school. For the wider team training days, I had to take part in multiple group exercises like performing team chants before and after training sessions. The charity promotes a healthy work life balance but sometimes I had to complete tasks outside of work because the time given was not enough (CMI).
Your Impressions
I have mostly enjoyed this placement because of the meaningful mentoring relationships built with students to develop their skills. Daily tasks are very manageable because of the flexibility around responsibilities. There were occasions where unrealistic expectations were set for team project timelines, and I was also not informed well in advance about upcoming events where the cohort was expected to work for longer than the usual hours (due to trips, school events, etc).
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Consider additional tasks you may have to take on and if you will be able to manage it. You will have to be involved in school extracurriculars, City Year activities for the school, mentoring, completing 2 CMI qualifications, providing class support, working on other projects like a Ted Talk presentation and more. You will be expected to work for longer on some days.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Voluntary, Education/Teaching
North West
June 2024