November 19th 2011
Entrepot Students Learn on the Job with LIME

If you are a regular caller to the LIME switchboard, last week you might have noticed a new voice saying “thanks for calling LIME; how may I direct your call?”. That’s because LIME recently took on 16 students from the Entrepot Secondary School on a three-day work study programme, designed to expose the teenagers to the work environment and help them learn good work ethics.

The goal of the exercise was also to help the students make career decisions based on their first-hand experience with one of St Lucia’s leading employers. The students were exposed to a number of job functions in various departments, including retail, customer experience, finance, human resources, corporate sales, service support delivery and marketing.

“I don’t think we could have asked for a better company, or a better experience,” said Shaquille Jules. “I was assigned to the marketing department, which was great, because I am really interested in marketing, and I learned a lot about dealing with customers and how to produce ads and I even got to work on LIME Digital TV!”

Another student, Amy Demille, who was assigned to service support delivery said, “I would love to work at LIME,” “It was only a couple of days, but I learned so much, and there are so many nice people. They taught me how to operate the switchboard, and I can see myself doing something like that when I leave school in a couple of years.”

Speaking from the LIME perspective, Head of HR for the Windwards, Goretti Lawrency said, “It’s important for our young people to be able to get work experience, but they also need to learn little things such as how to dress properly, diction, posture and so on. Hopefully what they learned at LIME will stick with them and help them in the future.

“We’re happy that we could have had a positive impact on these students, and we thank Entrepot Secondary for this opportunity. We had a lot of fun with ‘our’ students, and I think for some of us it taught us that education is not just about what happens in the classroom, but all of us have a part to play in teaching the next generation,” she added.

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