This past Wednesday, October 30th, I volunteer for first time after a long time, and it was also my first time that I was volunteering in New York City. Honestly, volunteering is not something that I like to do but surprisingly for me, I had a very good time and I can say that I totally enjoyed it!!
My project was at Wall street, I was a bit late but thankfully there was no problem with it. What I did there was helping by doing mock interviews with people that they were previously in jail. I took the interview from only one guy because I had to spend time filling the evaluation form. Also I gave advices to this guy about his future and how he can improve himself in order to get a job and achieve his goals.
Personally, I found the project really interesting, more than I expected it to be. What I enjoyed more was the fact that I took job interviews, it felt like I was the boss and it felt much different than being the one who is getting interviewed. The experience was really nice, I am not exactly sure about how the guy who I interviewed felt, but It seemed to me that he was pretty calm and cool.
I am satisfied with what I did and I hope that I helped the guy to be more prepared for a real future job interview. I feel like I also gain from this project because I know now, how it feels to be the one who is interviewing.
Polys Charalampous http://www.newyorkcares.org/user/365683/previous-projects
