1. How long have you lived in New York?
I have lived in Brooklyn New York for my whole life.
2.Where did you go to school high school? What kind of student were you in high school?What were your favorite classes/lease favorite?what sport and extracurricular activities did you do?
I went to high school in Midwood High School at Brooklyn College. I was a nerd student and still nerd. My favorite classes was music and math. I was in truck team club, year book, African students Union and music club.
3.Did you go to college? Graduate school? if so, where? For how long? What degree(s) did you earn? Are you interested in going back to school? If so,what do you plan to study?
I went yo college at Hunter College. I earned bachelor in psychology. I went to Graduate school of Baruch college and i'm still in school.
4.How did you choose your current occupation?
I decided to apply the AmeriCorps.
5.What steps did you take to get this job? How did you learn about it? How many interviews did you have? Was the hiring process difficult, not difficult? If a person were looking for a job at your company , what advice would you offer?
The steps I take is that I applied online, I get a recommendation letter form employers and the I went on to interviewers and then I was chosen to be an ameriCorps volunteer for the New York City for Coalition Against Hunger. Getting this job was very difficult. The advice I would is write a very good essay, have strong reference letter and ace the interview.
6. How long have you worked here? Have you worked in different capacities at this job? what jobs at this company have done in addition to the one you do now?
I have at Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger here for 4 months. I have worked in capacities.
7.What is your job title and what are three tasks or responsibilities you do most often?
My job title is volunteer coordinator. My tasks or responsibilities that i do often is to recruitment training, scheduling and management of the volunteers workers at our pantry.
8.Who is your direct supervisor and what is her/his job title? How much do you interact with her/him on a weekly basis? How many people do you supervise?
My direct supervisor is Tamara Dawson,she is the director of program manager. I interact with her all the time and daily. I supervise about 20 or more people.
9. What are two example of challenges you face working here?
Some example of challenges i face is volunteers compliance, retention and unreliability.
10. What is the best part of your job?
The best of my is that i like helping the clients of our pantry.
11. What is something you would like to change about your job?
Something i would like to change about my is some of my responsibilities.
12.Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar or different?
I worked at Banana Republic for 2 years. The is very different.
13. How do you hope, I a high school intern, can most help your company or organization?
You can help our organization by helping our costumers shop in our pantry.
14.What advice would you give to teenage interns (such as myself) getting ready for college?
I would advice you to treat the internship as if its your first job, try to get as much experience, work in different capacities at the organization because your experience with this internship would help me a lot for college and giving your responsibilities, time management and strong work ethic.
15. What advice would you give to teenage interns (such as myself) preparing to find a career?
Read as much as you can about different careers and also tailor your education work experience and training toward the careers that you find interesting to you.
My first impressions of the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger was that there are crowded and the space is not large. Although i'm glad that i will help which i enjoy doing and communicate with different people and learn from mistakes that i do there. My supervisor's full name is Tracey Allen and her official job title is volunteer coordinator ext 116.
some characteristics that describe my supervisor is that she is nice, pretty speechless, respectful, hardworking and very understandable person. The first day i meet her she showed all around the pantry how i should work their and help i felt so proud of myself that i learned a lot the first day i went there and get a long with the costumers.
The place where I work is noisy and crowed inside the pantry, sometimes there are busy the pantry is not very large it has to roll where people can use the shopping cars to go around. There are probably 10 or more people who works there everyday and most of are volunteers. The neighborhood is mostly quiet you don't see a lot of people on the street there are not a lot of groceries around that neighborhood like where i live.
At my internship site there are many people who comes there with families individuals and friends.
So far in my internship i have completed 5 days working there,i have directed people, i told them what to take for food base on their cards. I have wipe the floor and pick up boxes.
My exact schedule so far is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. I am arriving at 2:00pm to the internship site and arrive at home sometime 4pm and 6:30pm or 7pm everyday.
My internship site is crowed sometimes but is not like IHSL some people are nice and some of them sometime are angry. I have meet a lots of people there and some of my co-worker are so cool and friendly. All though I'm learning and experiencing a lot with different people and how to communicate with all different kind of people. Sometimes there are people who come there unhappy they would not listen to what you tell them to take and they can be very difficult to working with but I'm always nice to them even if they wouldn't listen. But i control myself not to talk back at them move on and help other people and i like the job i do because mostly i communicate a lot.
