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Name: Mel Van Dalen    

Age: 18

Mel is thinking about enrolling in June for a Bachelor of Hospitality Management. She has spoken to the Programme Leaders who have given her a contact – a manager for Angus Inn who she will ring after the programme finishes on Friday. She hopes to get a weeks work experience ‘to see if I’m completely sure that’s what I want to do.’. She has found the programme ‘Good. It gives you more confidence because you’re managing stuff and telling people what to do’. The main things Mel learnt were ‘organisational skills and working as part of a team – you get to meet people’.

The WINZ WorkTrack programme was ‘Good. It helped us with CV preparation and listing strengths’.

Would she recommend the programme to others? ‘Yes, definitely. Meeting new people, getting support, making contacts for what you want to do in the future…. The people here care what you want to do, they’ll help start you off to where you want to go’.

Name: Angie Cardno Age: 18 – left school last year

Angie is not too sure exactly what job she would like to do as she has ‘many different ideas in my head’ but she admits that thing that they all have in common is ‘dealing with people’. To help her with a people orientated career, Ken Laban is taking her to WestPlaza Hotel on Friday to have a ‘look around’ and hopefully an interview. Angie found the programme ‘Awesome aye, really liked it. Met heaps of new people and picked up heaps of new skills along the way. These included ‘organisation and dealing with kids’. It was deemed a ‘really good opportunity’.

Would she recommend the programme to others? ‘Definitely! (it’s) fun and you learn new stuff. Worktrack (the WINZ programme) is heaps of help’.

Name: Kane Byrne Age: 17

Kane left school in the fourth form and has been on the dole since then. He is going to talk to the leaders about hopefully getting a job in a demolition yard. Kane would like to ‘work with cars’ and enjoys motorbikes and fixing cars.
Kane states that he has ‘definitely gotten fitter’ on the programme, deeming it ‘good exercise!’ and would recommend the programme ‘if you’re sporty and like working with kids’