Kings Trust

[Josie86]

Anyone’s kids do any of the Kings Trust courses to help with confidence and job seeking? Looking at what it entails etc .. thanks guys

I’ve participated in KT as a volunteer for skills workshops, CV editing, and building confidence for job interviews via mock questions etc. The KT team had worked with the participants on how to draft a CV; we volunteers were invited to give constructive feedback (gently and with explanation, eg great you were a guides leader - could you maybe give a little more detail about what this means and what skills it might show?’)

We also looked at job interview prep - the participants had a clear framework, practice questions, and as volunteers we had clear instructions to adapt the experience to the participant (eg some were so nervous we had a chat about interests; luckily I’m a bit of a sci-fi buff ;) - im wording it poorly but the point was to build confidence not get perfect answers)

I was blown away by the care the KT put into the programme and was honestly honoured to meet and hopefully help in some small way… the participants were all amazing!

If you (or your dc) have qns there is a chat function on their website. Good luck!

I used to run these programmes! What specifically do you want to know? I assume you’ve seen the set up?
residential, community project, work experience…. Etc?

Hi it’s actually for my son.. he has applied now for over 50 jobs and has had only 1 reply back all saying “ you need more experience “ the usually.. I haven’t read a bad thing about it .. thanks

No experience of KT but I think I’d take all the help he can get as it’s so hard for young people to het jobs now, especially their first one.

One thing that usually helps is asking friends who have jobs if there is anything going.

Does he have any voluntary experience too? If not, he might want to think about what he wants to try, charity shop, sports club, library. Lots of places are screaming out for volunteers and it will give him something to talk about if he ever does get an interview, plus it will give him some important skills.

So the programme is all about employability, so whilst will do different activities that he can add to his CV - the course we ran also helped build / improve CV’s and completed mock interviews to help with that prep.

There is 2 weeks of work experience too, which depending what sector he is looking into, if he was interested in retail for example, some of the links offer forward work after the work experience!

I do know the stats for unemployed young people are really high at the moment, so I can’t imagine that in a competitive market, it will do any harm at all!