Help Young Adults in Building Strong Resumes, LinkedIn Profiles, and Networks!
ORGANIZATION: Hack the Hood
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Do you have professional skills you want to share with young adults or non-profits? Are you interested in supporting small businesses in a changing Bay Area? Hack the Hood is a nonprofit that bridges low-income young adults of color from the Bay Area with local small businesses and professionals through tech and coding bootcamps. Read on to learn how you can support us!
About Hack the Hood’s Coding Bootcamp and Partnership with Small Business Owners: Our seasonal programs introduce participants to the fundamental skills of coding and web development, and offer career and educational development. In Hack the Hood’s Coding Bootcamp, program participants harness professional soft and hard skills by creating a website for their clients, local small business owners (SMBs) who lack a major online presence. Many of these SMBs are long-time community mom and pop shops who don’t yet utilize technology and social media or new business owners who are still establishing themselves. With a website and social media knowledge, SMB clients can reach new customers and increase profits. Upon completion of the Coding Bootcamp, participants are encouraged to take their skills to the next level by enrolling in more advanced bootcamps such as Code Berkeley. Hack the Hood strives to support youth in their next academic or career step towards pursuing work experience in tech. See examples of SMB websites created in Hack the Hood’s Coding Bootcamp here and here .
Hack the Hood’s Framework on Youth Development:
Hack the Hood approaches youth holistically, as we support youth not only in their tech endeavors, but work to support their personal and professional development. We aim to foster a strong community-one wherein young adults feel consistently supported and can build trust with our staff and reliable adults who will forge mentor-like relationships. We are looking for patient and open-minded adults who have an empathetic understanding of various forms of privilege and intersectionality, especially in the context of the tech industry and the Bay Area. Volunteers must recognize that they too can step back and learn from the young people we serve, and strive to meet program participants where they are, both emotionally and skill-wise.
Position Description:
The Workshop Wednesday Tutors will support a small group of 1-2 program participants in crafting effective resumes, LinkedIn accounts, or professional networks. It’s fundamental that Workshop Coaches can build rapport, as they’ll be working very closely with and administering feedback to young adults.
Wednesday Workshops:
Feb. 21: 1. Intro Resume Building 1-3pm
Feb. 28: 2. Complete Resume Workshops 1-3pm
March 7: 3. Intro LinkedIn Profile 1-3pm
March 14: 4. Complete LinkedIn Profiles 1-3pm
March 21: 5. Networking 101 1-3pm
Volunteers are required to commit to a minimum of two sequential workshops (excluding the March 14 workshop), and are encouraged to support four or more workshops.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate a resume, LinkedIn, or networking workshop for a small group (1-2) of young adults that will teach them the essentials and purpose of designing and writing effective resumes or LinkedIn accounts, or having a strong professional network
- Assist program participants in creating their own resume or LinkedIn, or practicing networking skills
- Teach program participants to discern between professional and casual writing tone and voice
- Support program participants’ interests
- Support both workshop sessions in the series if volunteering for resume or LinkedIn workshops
Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience crafting effective professional LinkedIn accounts or resumes (a plus: teaching or tutoring others how to make LinkedIn accounts or resumes)
- Experience working with young adults of color, ages 18-25
- Share and practice Hack the Hood’s perspective on youth development
- Eagerness to jump in and work with program participants
- A plus: Experience navigating the tech industry from a non-traditional background (specifically speaking to folks of color, women, members of LGBTQI communities, and/or individuals who graduated from coding bootcamps, community colleges, or are self-taught coders)
Program season duration : February 19, 2018 through March 2018
Time Commitment: 1-3pm on Wednesdays during the course of the program. Volunteers can participate in as many workshops as they wish, but we ask a minimum of two. Because the resume and LinkedIn workshops are both two-day series, we request that volunteers support the full two-workshop series if interested in either of them. Volunteers are invited and encouraged to arrive earlier than 1 to eat lunch with program participants and staff.
Orientation Date: January 18, 2018 or February 8, 2018 at the Hack the Hood office, 439 International Blvd. #1, Oakland 94606
Program Start Date: February 21, 2018
Finish Date: March 21, 2018
Location: TBD, downtown Oakland
Ideal Amount of Volunteers: 10 for every Wednesday Workshop session.
Requirements for working with program participants:
- Available between the hours of 12pm and 4pm on Wednesdays
- Complete a Volunteer Orientation on January 18, 2018 or February 8, 2018 at the Hack the Hood office, 439 International Blvd. #1, Oakland 94606
- Complete and clear Live Scan background check
- Over the age of 25
- Two reference checks, ideally someone who can speak to your experience working with youth
If interested, please email [volunteer@hackthehood.org] for next application steps.
More opportunities with Hack the Hood
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Hack the Hood
Location:
439 International Blvd, Suite 1, 439, Oakland, CA 94606, US
Mission Statement
Hack the Hood is an economic development and job readiness program that trains youth in web/tech skills. This project based learning program gives local small business visibility in web and mobile search. The program works with leading Silicon Valley and Bay area tech companies to mentor youth, encourage entrepreneurship, and create jobs.
Description
Low-cost smartphones now give low-income communities of color unprecedented access to the internet. A recent Pew study ( goo.gl/RvnRyS) found that Blacks and Latinos use mobile tech at rates far greater than white peers to connect, communicate, navigate, and shop. Even so, small business owners don’t have time, money or know-how to get their business online where their customers are.
Hack the Hood introduces low-income youth of color to high-growth tech careers by training them as web consultants to build mobile-friendlywebsites for small businesses in their communities. This makes it possible for customers to find and support businesses in the "Hood," keeping their money circulating where it can support local jobs.
In our 6-week "Boot Camp" and other workshops and training programs, building these sites is a "trojan horse" we use to teach youth career skills they’ll need in any 21st Century professional setting: accountability, teamwork, professionalism, customer service, public speaking, personal branding, and more. Youth graduate with:
A) Awareness of the diversity of jobs available in the tech field,
B) Skills they can use to freelance immediately, which helps fund continuing education,
C) Updated resumes and online portfolios for their job search, and
D) Relationships to mentors/tech professionals who give advice, referrals, and endorsements.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
TBD, Downtown OaklandOakland, CA 94606
DATE POSTED
December 7, 2017
SKILLS
- Networking
- People Skills
- Critical Thinking
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 25
- Orientation or Training
- 1-3pm, Wednesdays during the course of the program
- Two reference checks, ideally someone who can speak to your experience working with youth