Attending secondary schools to give one on one interview practice
Amanda Carter, Stuart Templeton and Adam Savage took time out of their schedules last month to visit inner London secondary schools and provide some much needed interview practice to teenage students. The value of having professional adults - who are not teachers - fulfilling this role can not be overstated.
Six visually impaired students spent the day at the Stanes office of salesforce.com for a day of bespoke training. The day was organised by Screenreader.net, an organisation that provides free reading software for those that most need it. First they discovered that the salesfoce.com platform works perfectly with reading software, then they applied and received a grant from the salesforce.com foundation which they used to help six successful applicants attend a days training at our Staines office - maybe a world first?
In conjunction with The National Council of the Blind Ireland (NCBI), 25 salesforce.com employees from the Dublin office spent an afternoon socialising and shopping with a group of visually impaired adults.
During Global Holiday Spirit Weeks, over 1,250 salesforce.com employees joined with family and friends to contribute over 3,500 hours to spread holiday cheer.
Alim Uddin, who took part in Salesforce.com Foundation's 2007 UK BizAcademy program, was astonished to find he was the winner of the London Learning & Skills Council's 'Skills for Life' Learner of the Year Award.
