Orphans International Providing Job Skill Lessons and Student Internships For Roosevelt Island Residents

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Roosevelt Island based organization Orphans International (OIWW) is used to providing care and services to children in such faraway places as Haiti, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. According to their web site, OIWW was created:

... as a response to the global crisis facing orphaned children. OIWW has established a network of locally incorporated homes to house and educate children orphaned and abandoned after the Tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, and the 2004 hurricane in Haiti....

OIWW is now initiating a program to assist Roosevelt Island residents with workshops teaching job skills and internship opportunities for students. OIWW sent the following message explaining the program.

OIWW Job skills Workshops
Donation: $10. Per class

HS Community service is free.

Held at 559 Main on Roosevelt Island, on your laptop or our computers

Helping Island residents gain the skills they need for today’s job market.

Taught by the interns, volunteers and friends of OIWW.

"High School Community Service credit at OIWW" Yes, high school students can conveniently do their community service hours here on Roosevelt Island.

Come learn what work is available and what skills teens will learn. We are open for scheduled after school hours and certain Saturday Mornings.

Our present High School student volunteers will present the OIWW opportunities for Sophomores and Juniors.

Monday March 23 4 PM

“Want to be an Intern or Volunteer?”

Come learn what work we have and skills we teach at OIWW.

Thursday March 26 7 PM

“Design Colorful E-newsletters”

Using Constant Contact, Stephanie Liu will guide you as you build your own newsletter. "Making beautiful e-marketing newsletters...fast" OIWW uses Constant Contact to design elaborate and fun to read =newsletter and e-brochures. Bring your laptop computer or use ours, our talented interns will show you how to design a piece just for your family or your favorite charity. You will receive advanced information of what to bring to the class.

E-mail Linda@oiww.org to receive your instructions of what to bring to class.

Saturday March 28 10 AM

HS internships

Come learn how HS Sophomores and Juniors can complete their community service on RI.

Tuesday March 31 7 PM

Resume Preparation Workshop

Deborah Drucker is an HR professional who scans 100’s of resumes each week looking for the “right” candidates. She knows that resumes must be clear and concise to be noticed. Bring your resume. She will conduct a one hour interactive Resume Preparation Workshop with a "step-by-step" process that includes:

- understanding your career goals

- a method to gather your information

- creating a resume format/style for in-person and online applications

- how to clearly express your experience and background

Personal questions and advice will be offered after the program.

Saturday April 11 10 AM

High School Sophomores and Juniors can complete their community service on RI.

Thursday April 16 7 PM

“Winning In A Tough Job Market”

Breaking through the crowd takes skill. Getting meetings takes ability. Outlasting your competition takes a special knack. Ultimately how you handle yourself determines whether or not you get the offer. Learn techniques that will add to your competitive edge. Hone your job search with the most up to date strategies, techniques, and methods developed by the Five O’Clock Club, America’s Premier Career Coaching and Outplacement Resource.

Harriet Katz has a Doctorate in Social Work, is certified by The Five O’Clock Club as a Career Coach, by the Association for Psychological Type International in the Myers Briggs Assessment (MBTI), and by The Centre For High Performance in leadership behaviors and development (UK). She has been a therapist, an Associate Professor at Yeshiva University, and Director of the Wiener Management Center at UJA-Federation. Over the past decade, she has been a Career and Personal Coach.

Saturday April 18 10 AM

High School Sophomores and Juniors can complete their community service on RI

Tuesday April 21 7 PM

“On-line Research”

Do you wish you could find things on-line? Find information about a company where you are applying for a job? Use Google better? Get the answers you are looking for? Elena Carasca is a professional researcher. She helps not for profits find information on foundations, donors, corporations and private businesses. She will reveal where she finds FREE information that will give you confidence when you go for interviews.

"The one who knows the most gets the most"... come learn to do on line research.

Saturday May 2 10 AM

High School Sophomores and Juniors can complete their community service on RI.

Tuesday May 5 7 PM

"Using Salesforce.com for database work"

This is one of the hottest "cloud computing" programs in the world of business and OIWW has it for their volunteers to use and train on. Come get a taste of how data entry is done on Salesforce so that when you interview you can say "I am familiar with Salesforce". Talented OIWW volunteers will train you.

Thursday May 7 7 PM

" NYS Jobs search sites"

Come get the basics about where the job listings are. And we will also discuss sites like Craig’s list, the Foundation Center, Monster.com and agencies. HR professionals will make some suggestions you may not have heard about. With less jobs listed, you need to work harder and smarter to find work today.

Tuesday May 19 7 PM

"Become a Personal Assistant"

Paris Hilton has one (or two) and everyone needs one. Come learn how your skills might make you perfect for becoming a personal assistant to a busy executive. Linda Stanley, OIWW Ex. Dir., has worked as a free lance assistant to lawyers, professors and senior citizens. She will show you how to present your job skills so clients will be thrilled to have you as their PA.

Saturday May 23 10 AM

High School Sophomores and Juniors can complete their community service on RI.

OIWW’s mission is to ensure the physical survival of the orphaned children we serve, to help them reach their potential, learn to appreciate diversity, and develop a capacity for leadership. Through a small-home, family centered approach, OIWW helps children in need become healthy, contributing members of their local communities and happy citizens of the world.

OIWW’s mission is to ensure the physical survival of the orphaned children we serve, to help them reach their potential, learn to appreciate diversity, and develop a capacity for leadership. Through a small-home, family centered approach, OIWW helps children in need become healthy, contributing members of their local communities and happy citizens of the world.

OIWW is a 501(c)(3) Not-for-Profit Corporation

Orphans International Worldwide

Associated with the U.N. Dept. of Public Information

559 Main Street, New York, N.Y. 10044 U.S.A.

Phone: 212-755-7285