FONTAINEBLEAU – When you think of a thriving community you most likely associate it with a large group of people living or working together with a common goal.
A thriving community can come in many different forms. It could be the old woman next door who always leaves a loaf of bread for the recycler, the parent down the road who happily offers to carpool all the kids to school or the coming together of two charities, Doorway to Dignity and One Small Act of Kindness, to make a CV for the displaced.
CEO of Doorway to Dignity, Trevor Webster said he joined forces with the fellow charity to put together professional CVs to assist those in the community without jobs get employment. “We firmly believe that by putting a professional CV together, the chances of them getting employment are much better.”
Webster said this initiative is mainly for the man on the street who does not have access to a professional CV writer. “We firmly believe that every single person deserves an opportunity and we can assist them.”
One Small Act of Kindness has been doing this initiative for about three months now, and this is their first with Doorway to Dignity. “We usually just handed out a template CV and all the jobseekers would do was to fill in their details. This is the first professional-looking one and you can see the excitement in jobseekers when they get their printed CV,” said One Small of Kindness’, Kelly Ann van der Meer.
She said this is something they will consider doing monthly until they have enough CVs out in the community and thereafter doing it every three months.
Webster said they compel all the jobseekers to come back to them after they received a job through their CV so they can have it updated. “Through this, we can also urge the employer to become a reference for them.”
On the day there were several volunteers gathered at Fontainebleau Community Church and sat with each job hunter to put their CV together. There was also a professional photographer, Gainor Andrews, who set up a professional photo shoot for them. The charities even went the extra mile to make sure there was an array of professional dress shirts for them to choose from to take their professional pictures.
For more details on both charity groups, like their respective Facebook pages.
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