The document provides information on improving the trainee matching process for various youth programs. It summarizes the results of surveys on ideal trainee characteristics, provides sample interview questions to assess skills in areas like language teaching and presentations. It also discusses using the EXPA system to better manage the application and matching process, as well as facilitating experience sharing between experienced and new EPs.

1. Making Matching Better

2. Rob
LC České Budějovice
This session will deliver:
Kačka
LC ČZU Praha
Miha
MC VP GCDPi

3. Flow
- Results of surveys
- Ideal trainee profile
- Interview suggestion
- EXPA
- EP sharing
- CY2CY

4. EDISON - Research - 24 responses
The most:
- Presentation skills
- Language teaching
- Community development
- Easygoing person

5. Ideal trainee
- Good level of spoken english
- Basics of presentation skills
- Able to speak to big audience
- Able to work with different
stakeholders
- Passion to make difference
- Knowledge of home country
- Outgoing person

6. Interview - Language teaching
- Listen trainees English during interview
- Experience + Reflection
- Tell a story
- “Case study”:
- You are presenting in class and children not respecting you, they are
still talking, what will you do?
- I am little child, please explain me why I should learn foreign language

7. Interview - Presentation skills
- Self introduction
- Country introduction (typical thing)
- Suitability for project
- Experience + Reflection
- “Case study”
- Say 1 thing (you don´t like) and sell/present it for me in 1 minute
- How will you make presentation, if children english it very low
- What will you do if your PPT will not work?
- Do you have some Games/lessons activities?

8. Interview - others
- Volunteering experience
- Living with parents
- Expectations (keep them)
- Sum up of project process
- Fear/Excitement
- Why CZ and what do you know about it?
- “Case study”:
- You get lost in Prague, what will you do?
- Choose part of hamburger and explain why?
- Tell me poem or sing a song in your mother language
- 5 way how to use pencil
- Imagine you are leading an international team with people from 7 different countries. What
could be problems in that team and how you will fix them?

9. SPEAK! - Research - 8 responses
The most:
- Language teaching
- Presentation skills
- Organisational management

10. Ideal trainee
- Good communication
- Be able to explain things
clearly
- Be able to organize
schedule for students

11. Interview
- Ask for strategie show to involve more participant into speaking
- Imagine that I´m your student and you have the first lesson with me...how would you introduce
yourself?
- Work wit bored students/How to make lessons more interesting
- Ask about idea of lesson/ topics
- How to do presentation different/unusual?
- Ask about experience with presentating (and ask How was it?)
- What activities would you do with your students?
- What will trainee do if outside will be sunny and student won´t want to sit inside
- How would you describe timeline of your lesson?

12. Summer Camps - Research - 3 responses

13. Ideal Trainee
Not enough
responses, so let´s
make it like
brainstorming

15. Why EXPA?

16. EXPA - Why?
- We don´t have any other system
- Customer flow oriented on RE part
- More trackeble standards

17. EXPA - How it works?
- Application
- Match
- Pending EP AN signing
- EP approved/TN approved
- Matched
- Realized
Depends + tips:
- Payment
- Able to click on button
- Communication with OGX
- Communication with EP
- Escalate problems
- Track it!

18. So how EXPA works?

19. EP Sharing

20. EP Sharing

21. Cy2Cy - Miha