Hitting The Road

The Center for Employment Services (CRE=Centro de Recursos de Emprego) is located near downtown Lisboa (7-8 miles from downtown). This center serves all of Portugal which is a country about the size of Indiana. To help some of the folks get more value from our services we have taken the center on the road in a mobile environment.  

Breaking the Ice with an activity

Our first attempt at this was in the area of Setúbal and the city of Seixal. On Saturday afternoon, January 8, 2011 we held a workshop that covered: 1. Understanding your strengths and abilities, 2. You in 30 seconds, 3. Power Statements in interviews, 4. Resume writing and 5. Getting value from LDSjobs.org.

We were expecting between 10-15 people and we ended up with 22. We were ecstatic.

The best part was that everyone was serious about being there. Some had travelled quite a distance to participate. Kent invited a young man named João from Beja (a city in the Alentejo) and he came.
 

Paula teaches ´Habilidades` = skills recognition



Kent and Paula teach interviewing skills



Eileen and Céu Cavaco helped folks get registered with LDSjobs.org and to understand basic resume set-up. Paula Pereira and I (Kent) taught the skills portion along with "Comercial em 30 segundos, Declarações de Poder, Brasão and Entrevistas".
 

Eileen in front of our CRE (Centro de Recurson de Emprego)


Eileen took some fotos (see them included here) and kept the physical items in place. I ran the camera as we filmed some practice interviews. All in all a very successful first run of our mobile CRE. Our next one is in Lisboa for the whole country and it happens the 5th of February.