📩 Monthly newsletters for mentors & mentees with:
Useful info
Tools of the month
Links to register for workshops and activities at DUO
📌 Networking
To meet other mentors and benefit from their experience, DUO Paris shares its 'Mentor network' list with us northerners, you can:
check the list ‘Mentor network’ (updated monthly) and contact directly the mentors who interest you the most;
post a message via the mentors group on Facebook;
talk to your personal coordinator who will help put you in contact with mentors from the network.
Two closed Facebook groups (mentors/mentees) to:
exchange tips, share interesting vacancies and job fairs...
ask questions to the network of mentors and mentees
To join these groups, click on the followings links: Mentees Lille@DUO for a JOB ou Mentors Lille@DUO for a JOB or scan the QR codes under.
An administrator will approve your application as soon as possible.
You can also join the Facebook page and Instagram account for DUO France.
DUO for a JOB is also on : LinkedIn - Instagram - Youtube - Twitter.
You can find the list of all of the places where you can meet and work with your mentor or mentee for free on this map !
If you want to volunteer somewhere in addition to your time with duo, the Benenova association proposes actions such as marauding, food distribution, clothing distribution and many others in Lille. You can visit their website to see their missions and register online.
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🎓 Trainings opportunities ;
💼 Jobs and apprenticeships opportunities ;
📚 Resources on personnal and administrative situation and on job searching ;
📅 The agenda for all of the events linked with job and training searching ;
📱Complementary job searching tools.
🆕 This document is regularly updated, if you are interested in something, you can speak to your coordinator about it.
Action Plan: This helps you define the objectives for your ‘duo’, and organise the 6 months of support and accompaniment. This is your personal activity log book.
The situational analysis : to have a better vision of the situation.
SWOT analysis: the starting point for a skills assessment.
Google ClassRoom link to check out all the training you had.
💻 Guide – resources from the module ‘Social & Professional Insertion’:
An excellent document compiled by our training officer Clémence Soria, who identifies, step by step, the useful links for the pathway to integration (defining a professional development plan, general administrative procedures & paperwork, training & development, job hunting etc.)
Another useful guide : the GRDR guide. It's divided in 3 parts and gathers all of the structures that help with administrative and social procedures, all of the structures that help with language learning and all of the structures that help developing international projects.
To help you having a better understanding of you or your mentee's situation (mobility, resources, procedures) and then make the Action plan : Le bilan, kezaco ?
📕 Know your rights: n order to know which benefits or services you can access, and how to do so via online services, consult the website.
If you are under the age of 30, you can use the simulator via le site ‘1 jeune 1 solution’
🏠 The website of the Centre Communal d'Action sociale de Lille provides detailed information presented by map on subjects as diverse as access to digital technology, training, accommodation and mobility assistance.
🤝 Don't forget to check the LAIR if you need social support for access to rights, accommodation and housing, training, work and access to care.
👟 Primo Sport by UFOLEP is a sports program for french newcommers. To register you can ask your duo coordinator.
📁 This aiding card gathers a lot of useful resources for helping a newcomer or allophone.
🇫🇷 Français facile by RFI : the website to learn french via international news.
🔍 Soliguide : the platform that lists all the solidarity schemes in the region.
📒 Access to employment: Find out about access to employment support programmes and possible benefits / financial assistance (depending on your profile) via Clara.
💼 The world of work:
Discover different professions and job sectors via the governmental employment agency website.
Participate in workshops run by ‘La Cité des Métiers’
🗣Find a French language course: this map identifies the different organisations that offer classes to learn French as a foreign language (FLE – France Langue Étrangère) within Ile de France.
If your mentee is from Lille, we have a partnership with La Clé, so don't hesitate to ask your DUO coordinator for more information.
🖥️ The website réfugiés. info gahers a lot of resources around housing, health, administrative procedures and others.
🧑🍳 Facilitated immersion remains an available lever for employement.
🚗 To find out all about the solutions against mobility-related obstacles in Lille and its metropolis, visit the Mobilimel.
These are the two essential tools for finding work. Clear, effective documents are needed to sell yourself to a future employer. To optimise these documents, what could be better than the advice and guidance of a Human Resources expert?
How to do this? Send your CV and cover letter to your coordinator, plus job description where possible, in word format.
Response time: approximately 10 working days.
Through your role as mentor, you can help your mentees prepare for any forthcoming interviews by guiding them towards these workshops run by Cravate Solidaire Lille.
Please fill in this form, including your CV within the form, and then email, along with job description (where possible) to: ateliers.lille@lacravatesolidaire.org
This online tool will give you the keys to writing a good CV and an effective cover letter. Feel free to browse this resource together: videos, quizzes and infographics, it's all there.
Find here all the information you need to master the first professional social network: description, tutorial & quiz.
This presentation will give you the keys to good remote communicating.
This workshop enables you to update your CV and letter writing skills, both of which are essential in finding a job. A specialist recruitment coach will pass on tips and guidance for writing successful job applications, based on real examples provided from mentees.
Format: a single face-to-tace 2hrs workshop
Frequency: Once a month
Inscriptions: via your DUO coordinator
A meeting between mentors in which experiences, difficulties and good practices are exchanged, under the guidance of an external moderator.
Format: 2h30 face-to-tace workshop
Frequency: 2 or 3 times per month
Inscriptions: By invitation only (email)
Discover and learn how to use online digital tools that will be useful in your duo
Format : a single face-to-face 2hrs workshop
Inscriptions : via your DUO coordinator
A workshop to understand how to use this online tool to develop networks and job-hunting, in order to raise awareness of this platform with your mentees. (Workshop run by volunteer).
Format: 2 x 2hrs workshops
Frequency: Every two months
Inscriptions: via your DUO coordinator (please note that places limited to 6 people per workshop!)
Are you facing difficulties in your duo ? A volunteer psychologist is there to help you find guidance for your mentee, to give you keys to ease out your relationship, or to learn how to tackle certain subjects. If necessary, the volunteers can even meet with your mentee to discuss it.
Contact your coordinator!
This workshop, to be done as a duo, takes the form of a fun game and allows participants to review the fundamentals of good budget management and to (re)discover the financial tools and levers available to the public.
Format : A single 3hrs face-to-face workshop
Inscriptions: via your DUO coordinator