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New to Melbourne need to make Friends

Talzy_TSenior Contributor10 Apr 2022, 10:45 am AEST

New to Melbourne need to make Friends

Hi Everyone,

I live in Melbourne, I'm new to the city and I only made one friend through work its bit hard talking to her about mental health as she is just grasping information about it and I was trying to find people who would understand mental health and connect with you guys as I need to connect with people in a meaningful way.

I'm from a Pakistani muslim background and its really hard to talk about this with my family as they dont get it at all. I also have a strong hate towards the religion because they dont have a real proper solution to mental health besides praying and spiritually connecting to god which I dont have and I dont want to at all.

I've been through so much in this last 5 years of my life that there were many situations that I could've died and I've experienced psychosis. Its scary to be in that mind set and I wish there are more people to talk to about these things.

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MDTSenior Contributor11 Apr 2022, 7:57 pm AEST

Re: New to Melbourne need to make Friends

hey @Talzy_T
I think the beauty of the peer support work roles are that they can be based on your lived experience firstly. Then of course you can factor in your IT and sales experience. It all counts in the end.

I've always struggled with resume and CV stuff ever since I was younger. It is hard to do I find

In response to: New to Melbourne need to make Friends

Unknown userMember12 Apr 2022, 10:58 am AEST

Re: New to Melbourne need to make Friends

@Talzy_T A CV/resume can be tricky, as you so rightly suggest. A CV for one role may be on point, but when you're applying for a role in a different sector/industry it might require a more tailored response. Whilst I would love to help individually tailor resumes for all my forum pals, time makes that prohibitive, and I'm not what you would call an HR expert 😊

The reason I asked the question was to gauge whether there might be interest in arranging a skills based event, perhaps a Topic Tuesday or something similar, that focuses on honing skills geared towards peer support work. Perhaps a discussion, led by a HR or hiring manager who works in the sector, around writing a cover letter and building your CV. Does that sound like something you might be interested in @Talzy_T and @MDT? I can't promise anything, but I can certainly raise it as a suggestion to the team.

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Talzy_TSenior Contributor12 Apr 2022, 7:34 pm AEST

Re: New to Melbourne need to make Friends

@Former-Member Thanks for the support!! I really appreciate it.

Yes that sounds great if I can get someone to help me and see my current cover letter and resume that would help immensely or even attending a help session would be great!!

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