Sunday, 18 May 2014

Volunteering in HCT

Volunteering in HCT

 
Day 1:
From 10PM to 12PM
 
These couple of days I have lived through a life changing experience, it’s been my pleasure to volunteer in the place I chose to continue my education the Higher College of Technology.  When I first arrived I got introduced to Ashwini the supervisor. From that time, I thought to myself that I would give all my attention to help her in what she was trying to do. My first task was to keep record of how many students are graduating this year. To make sure that the amount of gowns or the graduating uniform is the same as the number of students. I had to start taking notes in where the amount of gowns weren’t equivalent to the number of students. I made sure not to leave the students service without presenting my report. I was proud to say that it was a good first day.





Day 2:
From 10AM to 12PM

I came back the next day, fresh and ready. I walked to Ashwini said good morning and asked her what I had to do this morning. She told me to have a seat and she presented to me the task of the day. It was quite simple I had to organize the students. The students who attend classes in the morning were on one side and the students who attended classes in the afternoon or in the evening on the other. After that I kept record of the students who their absences has been approved and the ones who haven’t. All this information has been recorded on the web. After those two tasks my job for the day was done and left the student center productively.
 
 
 
 
Day 3:
I started at 10AM, met with the supervisor and he assigned me the task of the day. My task was first to make a schedule of the graduated students in HCT Abu Dhabi. Different schedules were made, the morning classes students were in a separate schedule from the evening classes’ students. Then these schedules were plugged into Excel were each schedule contains the serial number, name of the student, the ID of each, and the major of each student who were graduated. This task took an average time of 2 hours to accomplish. At 12PM the task of that day was done.
 
Day 4:
In this day I started doing my task at 10AM. The task assigned by my supervisor was also based on arranging the data of graduated students.  My basic task was looking at old records of graduated students who have a work placement before being officially graduated. I arranged each group of students under a certain company name and then calling the supervisor of the company who was looking after those students asking him if the students are still working or not. Simply each company had about 5 students who were having their work placement in.  Arranging these data and calling the companies supervisors took me a 2 hours of time.
 
Day 5:
After being done from calling the companies supervisors and asking about the progress of each student, today’s task was to call each student. I called every single student and asked about their work placement.  This task was to give each student the information they need about their working time period and also I gave each student the contact number of the advisor that could help him to solve an issue or anything else.  The task started at 10AM and by 1PM the job was accomplished.
 
Day 6:
A new task was assigned by my supervisor. The task was to give out Akoun certificates to the students who attend the seminar of Akoun. After giving certificates to each student who attended the Akoun seminar, another task was assigned. This task was to help the new students in HCT to get over some problems they were facing during registration. I was helping them to meet with the registrar’s office employees and also to discuss with them some issues related to the enrollment in HCT.
 
Day 7:
This was the last day. The final task was to print and compile papers of graduating students. The papers include the names of the graduated students, the work placement information, and every single data related to each student. Each set of papers were for a certain student and those papers were collected by my supervisor to help in arranging graduated students records.