Looking for a job? Need job skills? Check out this new program at SMAS! Job shadowing/training is an opportunity for students to spend time with a school employee in order to learn about their job, observe their daily work activities and be trained on that employees job duties. This is being done to assist students in obtaining office skills that will make them more employable in the workforce.
Here are some examples of some job duties that will be taught here at the San Mateo Adult School:
Answering the telephone.
Faxing documents.
Using the copier.
Interacting with the public.
Using email.
Taking dictation.
Leading a meeting.
If you are interested please contact Tia or Marina at the Smart Center.
As San Mateo Adult School Students gain knowledge, skills, and confidence, they join the work force, advance in their jobs, and engage in volunteer work. The Learner to Earner page is about their success.Each week or so, another success story is feature. Here's the second story in the series.
Chady Assad
Syria, Chady's home country
Chady is from Syria where he worked as a dentist and also a hospital administrator.
After attending the Passport to Employment Program at San Mateo Adult School, Chady started to volunteer at the San Mateo Medical Center and is currently working as a Medical Assistant at a private clinic in Burlingame.
In the future, Chady hopes to attend college to take classes and also get a job as a hospital administrator.
Chady in the Passport to Employment Program classroom
The Event Center is at 1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo. The Job Fair will be in the Fiesta Hall.
Job seekers are urged to register online at speier.house.gov for the free event.
Speier stated, “While the unemployment rate in San Mateo County dropped to 6.8 percent in September, the rate remains disproportionately high for recent college graduates at 53 percent. Our boot camp is a great step towards getting that first job after college.”
Each boot camp is sponsored by Rep. Speier and San Mateo County and features employers and workshops where experts explain how to excel in a job interview, craft a resume and use social media to land a dream job. Known as the “TOOLS tent,” job seekers receive invaluable one-on-one counseling on how to conduct a successful job search.
Some of the participating employers include Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Oracle, Kaiser Permanente and the San Francisco International Airport.
Teacher Carolyn Lee will meet students at the Job Fair to help them.
Teacher Carolyn Lee teaches the Job Search classes for ESL students.
Recently, she and our new Assistant Director Susan Williams finished writing a big grant for the Job Search classes. Thank you, Carolyn and Susan!
Thank you, also to Rep. Jackie Speier, for the Job Fair and for coming to our Press Conference this summer.
Just for fun, here's a famous song from a famous old American musical. It's about a delivery service that is no longer around. The Wells Fargo Delivery Service. Now it is a bank. But it began as a delivery service.
