Help Lily compete in Abu Dhabi
In October 2016, Lily’s medal winning performance at the 2016 WorldSkills Australia National Competition earned her a place on the Worldskills Australia Skills Squad team among Australia’s best young skilled apprentices and trainees.
Lily, along with 17 of Australia’s current National Champions from their particular trade or skill has now been succesfully selected to join the elite *2017 Skillaroos forming part of Team Australia that will go on to represent Australia at the world’s largest vocational skills competition – the WorldSkills International Competition, which will take place in Abu Dhabi in October 2017.
Lily is working tirelessly every day to reach her goal of winning the Gold Medal while representing her country in Abu Dhabi. Often referred to as the Olympic Games for Skills and Trades, the WorldSkills International Competition will see the world’s best trade young men and women, from 76 nations, compete in 50 different categories for the title of World Champion.
To ensure Lily has the best possible chance of winning a medal, she is now taking on an intensive training program and along with her mentors, category experts and a team of dedicated volunteers Lily will train and develop her skills, her decision making abilities and build the resilience needed to compete against the world’s best.
With your help we can provide Lily with the best possible opportunity to achieve her full potential, represent WorldSkills Australia at the International Competition in Abu Dhabi in October and come home with a medal.
ABOUT LILY:
Lily is a bright and vivacious young women who is loves using here skills as a beauty therapist to make her customers feel relaxed, refreshed and beautiful.
She first trialed beauty therapy when she did work experience for her Mum in her salon. “After a week I was was sold on the idea of becoming a beauty therapist.”
Learning and training while working as an apprentice has been a fantastic opportunity for Lily; “it’s given me such great experience and an exposure to the industry.”
Through WorldSkills, Lily has developed an appreciation of her own abilities as. She has also learnt skills that will help her for many years to come – the importance paying attention to detail; as well the power of good organisation and time management.
Lily wants to further her studies and learn about dermal therapies in order to open her own successful skin & beauty clinic in the near future.
Lily is being supported on her WorldSkills journey by Dermalogica.
*2017 Skillaroos are champions chosen to represent Australia on the world’s trade and skills stage, and help to secure the future of the skilled Australian workforce.
** Australia is currently ranked 12th in the world and in 2017 we aspire to break into the top 10.
