Finding a Job Workshop
Beyond paying the bills, finding a job is important for a routine, one’s independence, and a sense of self. Our Job Workshops focus on helping people identify their skills and talents, and finding ways of expressing these in a new context.
Thus far, we have organised workshops on 1. Skills and Experience, 2. Job Applications, and 3. The Interview. We have delivered these workshops at the Millennium Library, Norwich, and at the Ukraine Centre, Dereham.
You can find templates here to help you organise job workshops in your own local library. All you need for these is a reasonably quiet space and some English-speaking volunteers who can help with wording and specific vocabulary.
Feedback from participants:
“I wish I had heard of this when I first arrived. We need more of these to help people who are new in the city.”
“I feel so much more confident about introducing myself at interviews and talking about my skills and experience”.
“A great experience. I can take this learning to other people too – I will share this with people I know that are looking for a job.”
Download PDF on “What You’ll Need”.
Feedback from participants:
“I wish I had heard of this when I first arrived. We need more of these to help people who are new in the city.”
“I feel so much more confident about introducing myself at interviews and talking about my skills and experience”.
“A great experience. I can take this learning to other people too – I will share this with people I know that are looking for a job.”
Download PDF on “What You’ll Need”.
Share What You Know
“I have never experienced an atmosphere as welcoming as this”
Participant from Pakistan
The “Share What You Know” workshop offers a friendly, informal space that allows people to share the skills, knowledge, and experience that they carry at their fingertips.
Our workshops allow participants to share their knowledge and experience with their new community, whether explaining their mother tongue to the locals, or particular skills and interests.
Rather than thinking of social integration as the responsibility of the individual asylum seeker, refugee, or new arrival, the Global Library approaches integration as a collaborative process between the individual and the host community, nurtured by the local library and inspired by the examples of mutual respect and exchange which have underpinned the library space historically.
Download PDF on “What You’ll Need”
Impact and Engagement: Getting Started
Feedback from participants:
“I wish I had heard of this when I first arrived. We need more of these to help people who are new in the city.”
“I feel so much more confident about introducing myself at interviews and talking about my skills and experience”.
“A great experience. I can take this learning to other people too – I will share this with people I know that are looking for a job.”
Download PDF on “What You’ll Need”.
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Poetry Beyond Borders Workshops
Our poetry workshops bring together poets and poetry-lovers working across multiple languages. So far we have shared verse in Yiddish, Bangla, English, Nuer, French, Latin, and Scots.
The first of these workshops was prompted by the generous donation of Ukrainian poetry by a Ukrainian barrister to the Millennium Library.
In this first workshop, Mariia read from a collection of modern verse, entitled “Я Залишаюсь Тут!” (“I’m Staying Here!”) by Pavlo Derkach, written in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.
One participant responded with a poem celebrating the independence of Bangladesh, explaining the political context for the rest of us, while another shared his own verse on the civil war in Sudan: his delivery, in itself powerful, was reinforced by the information and history he was able to share with the group. We learnt a great deal from each other both in terms of poetry but also about the historical contexts from which these works had arisen.
Feedback from participants:
“This workshop gave me a glimpse into other cultures and languages – it was a joy to hear unfamiliar languages”.
“I learnt that war and love and seashells and red flowers all have something in common: they inspire poetry. All languages sound poetic when they express heartfelt emotions”.
“More please!”
Download PDF on “What You’ll Need”.
Feedback from participants:
“This workshop gave me a glimpse into other cultures and languages – it was a joy to hear unfamiliar languages”.
“I learnt that war and love and seashells and red flowers all have something in common: they inspire poetry. All languages sound poetic when they express heartfelt emotions”.
“More please!”
Download PDF on “What You’ll Need”.
