19/03/2017
Report 03/03/2017
The day started with an energizer by the Greek team , called «Catch the balloon» which helped us not only to wake up, but gave us a good laugh too; what better way for a day full of activities and workshops to begin with?? Then, it was the time for some work to get done; that is , to further discuss about the key competencies and the ways we could apply them ,in order to effectively increase our chances for a successful job interview. The day went on, and after a delicious lunch we had, the Greek team provided with a second energizer, with a ball in between the participants ,separated in two groups for this activity ,exercising their reflexes ,trying to take the ball without being caught by the other team’s members.
After the refreshing energizer, it was about time to put key competences’ theory into action! The first interview simulations, by phone, gave us a good chance to do so, as they turned out to be a really valuable tool for to realize mistakes commonly made by candidates being interviewed-and ,at the same time, all of the above in a rather creative and easy-comprehended way ,as the ‘’scripts’’ each interviewed couple had created and displayed were funny ,interesting and straight forward to the topic; sometimes funny and sometimes more sophisticated, but in any case enjoyable and effective !Middle term evaluation was next ,a task we had been rather prepared for, as smaller evaluations had already taken place before ,thus acclimating us .Also, impressions formed for the job being done in the exchange, were more than good, so the main difficulty, if any, was to accurately form our enthusiasm into words so we could proceed to the video night, learning more about key competences as they had been perceived and presented by previous projects’ participants, enriching this way our perception of them by providing us with different cultural aspects on the topic.
End of the day found us a bit tired but certainly happy, thinking and discussing the new knowledge acquisitions we had gained and looking forward to the next day and all the new things it would bring, to come!