volunteers
Update from the Inside
Remember the friend that I told you about that has been selected as a volunteer for the Vancouver Games? Well, he is back with some more inside information for us. And this time he has pictures.
Basically [November 27, 2008] was a one on one interview then a 4 hour orientation. At the beginning they brought out one of the official Olympic torches from the Torino games and you had to hold it while you introduced yourself. Seems I’ll be helping in one of the skiing sports but I have to wait till they send me an offer which can be as late as summer ‘09 but apparently will be much sooner as they want me to help with the Freestyle World Cup in February ‘09, but nothing is official.
The orientation was info on the expectations of a volunteer and a lot of team building exercises but no training. We did get a cool looking information binder that explains a lot more. We also got a sticker and a pin.
I sent you a picture of the binder, sticker and pin as well as the welcome letter and periodically I’ll send you scans of key pages from the binder.
I’ll let you know if and/or when I get an offer from them.
I am very happy to have a connection on the inside of the Olympics, but I really do wish that it was me. If the 2016 Olympics make it to Chicago, I’ll be one of the first to volunteer.
Inside the Vancouver Olympics
Countdown clock located in downtown Vancouver
I was just contacted by a friend of mine, who just so happens to live in Vancouver, and he just so happens to be in the middle of the application process to become a volunteer at the Olympics. And if that wasn’t cool enough, he offered to be an inside contact man for me! As he goes through the interview process and hopefully getts selected to work at the Games, he is going to give me step by step updates so I can report them back to you! We should be able to get lots of good inside information from him, with pictures!
Here is what he’s told me so far about how the application process works:
The first step I did was register here. That was about four months ago. Two weeks ago they contacted me and did a short phone interview and two days ago I was emailed to register for the orientation meeting. It’ll be six hours where I’ll undergo a face to face interview that lasts an hour to find out where they will place me and then they go over all the stuff. That’s on the 27th (of November).
I’m pretty sure volunteers get a lot of cool stuff including uniforms so I’ll send pics of all the loot I get.
Sounds to me like our guy is a shoo-in. I’m excited for him, and look forward to getting another update from him.