Read the article and answer the questions:
1. What grades did Tyreek obtain in his A-levels?
2. What problems did he encounter while he was doing job-hunting?
3. How did he obtain his current job and what is it about?
4. What advice did Tyreek give to jobless people?
1 - Despite straight A’s in his A-level, Tyreek Kasim wound up jobless and dejected. When Tyreek Kasim graduated from sixth form in the summer of 2020 with straight A’s and decided to turn down a place at university to apply for an apprenticeship, the last thing he expected was to wind up jobless and ground down by the system.
ReplyDelete2 - Lack of work experience and professional training more than 10 organizations refused to accept a job.
3 - One day, Tyreek’s mother came across a social media post that caught her attention. She had found an eight-week employability course by a charity in east London called City Gateway.
4 - Asked what advice he would give to jobless young Londoners, Tyreek said: “Don’t sit at home alone like I did because there are great organisations out there like City Gateway that can help you. And never give up. There will be one opportunity out there with your name on it.”
1.Tyreek Kasim wound up jobless and dejected. When Tyreek Kasim graduated from sixth form in the summer of 2020 with straight A’s and decided to turn down a place at university to apply for an apprenticeship, the last thing he expected was to wind up jobless and ground down by the system.
ReplyDelete2 .Lack of work experience and professional training more than 10 organizations refused to accept a job.
3.Tyreek’s mother came across a social media post that caught her attention. She had found an eight-week employability course by a charity in east London called City Gateway.
4.Asked what advice he would give to jobless young Londoners, Tyreek said: “Don’t sit at home alone like I did because there are great organisations out there like City Gateway that can help you. And never give up. There will be one opportunity out there with your name on it.”
1) When Tyreek Kasim graduated from sixth form in the summer of 2020 with straight A’s and decided to turn down a place at university to apply for an apprenticeship, the last thing he expected was to wind up jobless and ground down by the system.
ReplyDelete2) it was the first summer of Covid and, as the rejections piled up, Tyreek began to worry. “I made around 60 applications over three months and scored just two five-minute phone interviews - one with an accounting firm, who said my Maths C for GCSE was too low, another with Lloyds Bank who also turned me down. For months I was in my bedroom burrowing away making applications getting more and more discouraged. Many of my peers had gone to uni and I felt left behind.
« I started to realise that my lack of work experience in a professional environment put me at a real disadvantage. »
3) One day, Tyreek’s mother came across a social media post that caught her attention. She found eight-week employment courses at the City Gateway charity in east London. That would mean Tyrik would be driving around London to work, but the City Gateway course included work experience, so he decided to give it a try.
That was the moment when everything changed. Tyrik said: “I was sent on a course with 11 young people who, like me, were repeatedly turned down, and it gave me strength because I felt like part of a resilient cohort.
4) Asked what advice he would give to jobless young Londoners, Tyreek said: “Don’t sit at home alone like I did because there are great organisations out there like City Gateway that can help you. And never give up. There will be one opportunity out there with your name on it.”
1. Tyreek Kasim wound up jobless and dejected. When Tyreek Kasim graduated from sixth form in the summer of 2020 with straight A’s and decided to turn down a place at university to apply for an apprenticeship, the last thing he expected was to wind up jobless and ground down by the system.
ReplyDelete2.Lack of work experience and professional training more than 10 organizations refused to accept a job. It all happened during covid.
3.Tyreek’s mother came across a social media post that caught her attention. She had found an eight-week employability course by a charity in east London called City Gateway.
4.Tyreek said: “Don’t sit at home alone like I did because there are great organisations out there like City Gateway that can help you. And never give up. There will be one opportunity out there with your name on it.»