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08 July 2010
Starbucks Realise Your Potential Workshop – Thurs July 1st 2010
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The workshop was divided into three sections: Play, Plan and Pitch. During the Play section, participants (including Bill Cullen and TV Apprentice Steve Raynor!) played some ice-breaking activities in order to get to know each other better. This was followed by a fun ideas-generation exercise, where our imaginative applicants had to create ideas for improving their communities using random objects such as rubber ducks and feather boas!
Bill Cullen then gave some valuable words of advice to the applicants. Some of his top tips included:
- Look people in the eye when you talk to them
- Make sure that your CV has plenty of work experience on it, whether that be part-time summer jobs, work experience, or volunteer work
- Try to be around positive people at all times
- When meeting someone (for a job interview, Starbucks pitch etc.!) make sure that you look neat, tidy and well-presented. It doesn’t matter if you wear jeans once they’re clean!
The Plan section gave the different project groups some time to work on an ‘ideas sheet,’ which will be very helpful for the applicants when they come to fill out the proposal form and begin to prepare their pitch, should they be invited to do so.
After a tasty lunch which was provided by Starbucks, three brave young people from the Computer Clubhouse in the Liberties did a mock pitch for our panel – Steve Raynor, Claire Levens from Starbucks and Edel Maughan from YouthBank. They did a wonderful job, with Steve complimenting their “well put together and structured presentation,” and Claire praising their “strong and convincing” answers.
At around 4 o’clock we sent our participants on their merry way home, with a Starbucks goodie bag in their hand and their heads filled with exciting ideas for making their communities a better place to live!
Proposal forms are to be returned to the IYF by the 23rd July, and a selection of chosen applicants will be asked to pitch their ideas to a panel on August 3rd. Best of luck to all!
