In class, our progress on our project moved rather slowly today. We are trying to gauge a new time frame to work under to ensure that we could complete every aspect of our job fair, but we were halted when it came down to picking a date for our job fair so that we could book a room. We checked every weekend and Thursday in April, but there was always some event going on that prevented us from using each date. The location and time of the job fair is a major factor because that is what determines how many people can fit in the venue, and also, how many WP students would be able to actually attend the event. We also took the school schedules of the WP students into consideration more than we took the Siena student's schedule into consideration because it would be easier to get more Siena volunteers than getting WP volunteers, and the event is for them after all.
Our research was also delayed due to the fact that we did not receive a response from the Career Center. Last week, Lexi emailed the career center in order to set a meeting with them to discuss possible jobs that the refugees could obtain and how we could optimize the experience that the students have at our event. After realizing that we did not receive a response from the Career Center, I called them to assure that our email actually sent and they had seen it. Once the center apologized for not responding to the email, they sent a follow up email to a counselor that could help us. We are still waiting back to hear.
During WP next Thursday, we will do an activity with the students to get them thinking and speaking to us about what they would like to do with their futures.
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