LINKnet Mentoring - Minority Ethnic Mentoring Service

:: 4 February 2012

Volunteers

With LINKnet you can do two types of volunteer work:

Volunteer mentors help develop another person's career or further education by providing one-to-one support over a short period.

Office volunteers help either administration or development work of LINKnet.

Office Volunteers

Most ME people find it difficult to get employment because they do not have prior work experience in Britain. No one offers a job to a person who does not have work experience. Without a job one cannot get work experience. Thus a lot of ME individuals get caught in a catch twenty-two situation. LINKnet offers voluntary positions either as volunteer mentors or as office volunteers to address this issue. LINKnet mentors get work experience as well as many other benefits.

Those other benefits include:

Upgrade your current knowledge
Gain new knowledge
Exposure to different cultures and environments
Improve employability
Recognition by individuals and institutions
New contacts and wider networking
See opportunities from within, private, public and voluntary sector organisations or/and educational institutions
Increase self-esteem and self-confidence
Review and revalidate what you have achieved so far
Receive a good training that includes, communication, coaching and counseling skills and knowledge on equality legislation, confidentiality policy and cultural sensitivity
Open your eyes to your own true potential

LINKnet limits volunteer work with it to six months in order to offer the opportunities to others. It has developed many volunteers in this manner and they have all found paid employment. Please enquire at

Email: enquiries@linknetmentoring.com