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Tom Charlton, Chief Executive of the Blind Society for North
Tom says his organisation, which helps blind and partially-sighted people back into employment, regularly uses and adapts the Windmills programme.
"It enables us to dip in and out and get stuff at the right level for our clients and we find it a good source of inspiration. We use it as an ideas base and put it into the language of the client."
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Dr Paul Redmond, Deputy Director of Student Services and Head of Career Development, Liverpool Hope University College
Liverpool Hope University College's Career Development Service started using Windmills when they were looking for career development materials that engaged with students in a lively, interesting and challenging way.
They have now been successfully using the programmes and resources for several years. After originally making use of the Windmills Career Management Programme with first year undergraduate students, they now find the resources valuable for a range of clients, particularly women managers. They're also planning to integrate the programme into academic modules run by Career Development.
Dr Paul Redmond has also found that the Windmills Approach to Working, Learning, Playing and Giving has provided him with many new ideas for helping students. He finds it particularly valuable for mature students for whom work/life blend is a vital issue.
Windmills resources have really benefited the team at Hope by offering a useful, high-quality set of resources that complements their existing work.
"Windmills offers an active, interesting and accessible careers resource. When used alongside other career resources and delivered by guidance practitioners, it can offer students a valuable insight into surviving the changing nature of work."
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Jan Parry, Training Liaison Officer for Jet South Liverpool
Jan says unemployed people in south Liverpool are finding Windmills can play an important role in helping them overcome barriers they face in their search for work.
Her organisation, which helps local people match their abilities and interests with job or training opportunities and assists employers to find the right staff with the right training, uses the resource as part of its 'Get Ready for Work' course.
The Jet team has found Windmills particularly useful in helping local people develop greater motivation and confidence in their jobhunting. Jan says all clients leave the course totally focused and with added confidence while many go on to be successful at interview.
She considers the interactive and thought-provoking Windmills exercises really help their clients and finds one of the visioning exercises particularly useful. It asks people to create a collage of where they want to be in terms of their career and Jan says this is something they find difficult to do with words alone.
"The visual impact of this exercise is really strong as it helps our clients to articulate the job or career that they want and gives them something to aim for. Along with my staff and our clients, I find the Windmills resources truly inspirational."
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