Heritage Academy students gain life skills at job prep competition

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – It’s profession week at Heritage Academy in Augusta, they usually wrapped up with a job prep competitors Friday.

The aim is to push youngsters to develop the life expertise wanted to get a job and deal with different skilled settings.

The varsity additionally introduced in native professionals to be judges. We stopped by the learn how the occasion turned out and meet the children engaged on creating the right handshake.

When it comes all the way down to it, nailing a job interview isn’t all in regards to the expertise, it’s working to ensure the primary impression is lasting. To win the competitors at Heritage Academy, college students should shake it as much as test each field.

“Everyone was in there panicking, like, I don’t wish to look unhealthy, I’m a stutter, any such stuff, all people will simply type of in every single place,” stated MaKayla Cannady, winner.

Cannady says she’s been getting ready for weeks.

“I’ve been asking folks for recommendation and techniques I can use. As a result of getting round lots of people and attending to know lots of people was type of anxious to me, and I don’t know if I’ll slip up or something,” she stated.

She’s speaking about getting ready for Heritage Shakes up Augusta, the place college students put their expertise you may’t discover on their resumes to the take a look at.

“I held eye contact as finest as I might. However I might look off there like I’m now. As a result of I’m making an attempt to suppose. I needed to apply agency handshakes as a result of I’m not used to shaking folks in. So my brother, he type of helped me with that,” she stated.

Dr. Cherie Murray says her aim to depart an enduring impression is what landed her the winner.

“I used to be searching for the communication, that communication expertise, have been at a degree to the place they need to be at their age. Give me eye contact, that they have been in a position to maintain a dialog,” she stated.

Making ready Cannady and her classmates for something that comes their manner.

Affiliate Director of the Faculty, Tana Watson, stated: “We reside in a society the place everybody’s trying down at their telephones. And so studying that ability of eye contact, and for these nervous folks, let’s have a look at the nostril. And simply these important instruments of their toolbox to get them the place they should go. It’s one thing that we don’t typically put a excessive give attention to. But it surely’s actually the factor that will get you within the door.”

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