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042 Patrice Kayo (reduced sound quality) |
click to read > 1. Wendy: Can you tell me about your job? 2. Patrice: Exactly I work with Canopy Housing Project. A long time ago I started to work with them in 2005. 3. Wendy: Right. 4. Patrice: Like volunteering. 5. Wendy: Volunteering, yes. 6. Patrice: Yes. I work really hard with them and I don't know why the people chose me for the training position now and yes. 7. Wendy: Well because you work hard. 8. Patrice: Yes. I try to apply for the position because we have too many people who was interested for the job, like English, any people, you know, because they ... they just make the news anyway for this job and they chose me. 9. Wendy: They advertised it. 10. Patrice: Yeah, and they chose me. 11. Wendy: Did you have an interview when they chose you? 12. Patrice: Yes I had an interview with them and they chose me. 13. Wendy: Excellent. What do you actually do in the job, in the housing project? 14. Patrice: Before I. I was in training position like plastering, wallpaper, painting, tiling, joinery, sometimes, you know. But at the moment I got the responsibility for tenants, you know, to look after the tenants, to work onsite and share skill with some volunteer. 15. Wendy: So do you go and visit the tenants and ask them what they want, in their home? 16. Patrice: I didn't visit the tenants, but if the tenants have got a problem at home, they just ring the office and leave a message. 17. Wendy: What do you like about your job? 18. Patrice: About my job, I like working with the people, with different people, share skill. I chose the job because I like colour and ... 19. Wendy: The decorating. 20. Patrice: ...yeah decorating something like that. 21. Wendy: Excellent. Have you had any other jobs in the past? 22. Patrice: I never had a job in the past. It was my first job in England because, you know, I started a long time ago with them, but I found I'm looking at the job, before, but I didn't see before but I say I will carry on with the job maybe they me on one day something like that you know. 23. Wendy: And you want to do this now. 24. Patrice: Yeah. 25. Wendy: ...as your career? 26. Patrice: Carry on just. because they asked me if I can work something like part time, I just say no, I can't work part time, because I know the education is good for me. 27. Wendy: Because you're a student. 28. Patrice: It's good for me, yes, I just carry on to go there and to come here because they still practice sometimes yeah it's good maybe to come, and they help me as well to ... to find a course next year in building college. 29. Wendy: Right. In building college? 30. Patrice: Yeah. 31. Wendy: Right excellent. Was the information about the voluntary job in the library, did you see a leaflet? 32. Patrice: Yes about the volunteer job. But then they chose to give support as well about the volunteer job that when you're a volunteer, they give like support to you, they help you to ... to find a job as well. Then if you say but today I still volunteer, they will give you something like a reference and, you know, they help you as well for the education. Because before I had the ... before I had the programme for the education in this country, they helped me to ... 33. Wendy: To find it. 34. Patrice: ...to find me a place, you know, in college, something like that. 35. Wendy: Right and when you changed from voluntary work to paid work, and you had an interview, was it a formal interview, or a friendly informal interview? 36. Patrice: It was an informal interview. 37. Wendy: Informal. 38. Patrice: Yeah informal. It was simple because I knew. I knew these people before and I didn't scare about nothing and, you know, the manager say all the qualification I got here, I just asked for all people I knew you well, but I had just asked for all people that we are looking for. for special people like something that, maybe. so maybe you didn't know where we were because we are the last volunteer. We have maybe twenty people we passed them and something like that. 39. Wendy: And you were successful? 40. Patrice: Yeah I was the last and successful. 41. Wendy: Thank you. |
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