Helping out at the SRE February 18th

Although we didn't have any career workshops planned for the week, we went to the main office and helped out with many of the workshops that were being taught by Jozzi another career workshop teacher.  On Wednesday, our teacher was running a little late so Anders and I stepped in to cover her absence by teaching her class.  One of the dynamics we always like to do is called the jogo do empregador, (game of the executive and worker)  It's a simple game where 5 people sit down on chairs that are pointed inward making a circle (with one empty chair) On the outside of the circle are 6 people, each one standing behind one of the chairs.  In the game the people on the outside or the 'excecutives' of the company try to restrain their worker (the person sitting in the chair in front of them) from leaving to go sit in the empty chair.  The only way a worker can move is if they receive eye contact from the executive with the empty chair.  It might seem little confusing at first, but basically the game reflects on the importance of staying alert (as a worker) and seeking out the many opportunities/promotions that are out there....or so we tell the class and those involved in the game at first.  The game actually has a hidden player which is a person who walks around the circle of chairs and who desperately tries to get eye contact with the executive with a job opening.  When we explain at the end of the game this hidden player, and ask why none of the executives looked at him to 'offer' him a job, all of them respond "I didn't know he was playing!"  We then explained to them how in the work field many times we miss out on opportunities not because we are not qualified or because we are not trying hard enough, but because we have failed to promote/advertise ourselves effectively to companies, executives who have the power to offer us good jobs (through resumes, job interviews, declarations of power, me in 30 seconds).