Job club works

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 458, 20 October 1992, Page 2

Job club works

BY

MARNIE

WOODD

Ohakune's Job Club has an almost 100 per cent success rate in getting people into work. Two people who have recently joined the club talk a little about their experience. Shane Scobie "The course wasn't what I expected. It was really relaxed and we discussed things. There was no pass or fail, not like school." Shane, 18, was a seventh former at Ruapehu College when he saw the Job Club advertisement in the Ruapehu Bulletin. Unsure of what he wanted to do and seeing

friends completing long courses with little hope of jobs at the end, he applied. He's now working as a ski technician at Turoa's ski hire which he really likes. When the ski season finishes he's planning to go to the United States or Canada to work through their winter. Jo-Anne Ryan Jo, 19, was employed as a part-time snow hostess at Turoa but got promoted to full time early in the season She heard about the Job Club while routinely reporting for the unemployment benefit. At that time she was also working voluntarily as a teacher's aide at Weir Terrace and Kensington kindergartens in Waiouru. "The course taught

good interviewing skills and really helped your self confidence," she said, "it concentrated on your good points rather than your bad ones." She has yet to decide what to do when her job finishes at the end of the ski season.