Comments on: My Olympic Volunteer Journey Begins

By: Olympics Can You Hear Me?! | Gus Digital

Olympics Can You Hear Me?! | Gus Digital — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:00:26 +0000

[...] 10 months ago I had my first interview to be a potential Vancouver 2010 Olympic Volunteer. I did know that I had over 14 months before the [...]

By: gusf

gusf — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:19:31 +0000

@sah – Just wear something comfortable. When I interviewed I just wore jeans. They are looking at your interaction and enthusiasm.

By: sah

sah — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:01:27 +0000

this might be a stupid questions but what did people wear to the “creating team 2010″ interview? its a volunteer position so i’m thinking a dress shirt and dress pants might be over the top…

By: Winter Olympic Journey Continues | Gus Digital

Winter Olympic Journey Continues | Gus Digital — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:31:43 +0000

[...] November I wrote about my experience at being interviewed to volunteer during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. As I didn’t hear back from [...]

By: colleen

colleen — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:00:39 +0000

Didn’t know 2010 was happening there. That must mean 2009 has been decided. I guess I’m out of that loop. I’m dropping by from Netchick’s.

By: gusf

gusf — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:14:51 +0000

Thanks for the comments all. I was going to blog about my experience, but looks like we have some great comments here.

@Lynn you had the same experience as I did. I think it gave us all the chance to see what building “Team 2010″ is like and give us an insight on what will be required of us.

@Shirley you will have a great time, meet new people and get to share in the passion.

I was interviewed for events, though I was in a group with media relations. I put my name in there during my interview as well as I work for a newswire company and think it will be great as well.

If you are volunteering for Events, which begin January 2009, you should find out if you are accepted by late this year and early next year. They asked us to keep a look out for an email and log into the Volunteer website and check “your calendar” from time to time.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:59:44 +0000

I had my face to face interview a couple of months ago. It was pretty interesting. As you arrive you are given a name tag and then directed to the RCMP table where you hand in your police check form and show your ID. Then we were taken into a large room and shown a video about past olympic volunteer experiences. Then we split into 2 groups and had some interactive exercises which were kind of fun. We were further split into smaller groups of 2-3 and then had to match up venues with the sporting events. They gave us a really nice binder full of olympic volunteering stuff and gave us a commemorative pin and sticker of the mascots. It all ended up with a tear jerker of a short film. Oh yeah – we also had one on one interviews as well with their staff. They asked pretty much the same thing that they did on the long phone interview. I was also asked about a leadership role, which I was fine with. I just hope I get a call back saying I’m in!! There’s about twice as many volunteers as positions available. I hope yours goes well! I do think they could have easily done this interview in about 2 hours but all in all it was an interesting experience! I look forward to seeing what yours was like. Mine wasn’t at the PNE, it was at their office out by the Burnaby/Vancouver border. Best wishes!
Lynn

By: shirley

shirley — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:02:31 +0000

Hey what happened during the interview I have mine on the 8th and i’m flying in from toronto… I’m soo confused what to do about transportation and what actualy goes on.. if you can give me any kind of hint that would be awesome!!!

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:45:02 +0000

tell us about your in person interview!!!

By: gladys

gladys — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:30:05 +0000

Good luck!!!! Gus