My Volunteer Experience - Lynn Yunfeng Huang

Image: Lynn Yunfeng Huang SAcommunity Team Member, with Stathis Avramis at the Connecting Up Office 

Thank you Lynn!
Lynn Yunfeng Huang joined our SAcommunity Customer Service Team as a volunteer on 24 October 2016 after completing her Business Administration Certificate III at TAFE SA and while seeking work in the field. 

She has continued to volunteer over the years since, around and between her study/casual work commitments, returning to the Connecting Up office when she can or accessing webinars remotely.

We are pleased to report that Lynn has been successful in gaining a customer service role in a leading medical supply distribution company on 22 July 2024, Congratulations Lynn!

Total Hours 384* This Year 63 Joined 24 October 2016 Last Check-in 26 June 2024 (Retired) 
*Records began in 2019

Personal Biography
Lynn has extensive administration experience as a PA in the corporate sector overseas, as an Administration Supervisor at Flex-I Hub Project with CEVA Logistics in Zhuhai, China for more than 3 and a half years, before working as an Assistant Manager at Zhongshan Zhonghua Tank Containers Equipment Co., Ltd, with the Suretank Group in China for nearly a year before moving to South Australia.

In Adelaide, Lynn completed her Advanced English Course in 2015, Business Administration Certificate III in 2016, and her Bookkeeping and Accounting Certificate IV in 2019 - 2020 at TAFE SA whilst volunteering with the SAcommunity Team and with the South West Community Center, as a Volunteer Administration Assistant. She returned to Connecting Up in 2024 and is currently working part-time as a personal care assistant in aged care, and volunteering with the SAcommunity Team.

Lynn initially joined the SAcommunity Team at Connecting Up, to gain some local work experience, build her confidence, and familiarise herself with Adelaide's work culture to build on her administration career overseas. Lynn has joined the SAcommunity Team on and off between pursuing futher studies at TAFE and casual/part-time work over the years to continue to broaden her life-long learning skills and employment prospects.


Image: Volunteer Julia Koh with Volunteer Lynn practicing Telephone Techniques

"I really enjoy meeting other volunteers and found the advice provided in my mentor session with Poorni Illangasekara from the customer experience team was really beneficial.

I look forward to utilising my administration background and the telephone skills I have acquired here to ideally work more in administration in the aged care industry in the future. 

I plan to keep volunteering at Connecting Up because I feel that providing information updates that acts to connect people in the community is valuable."

Image: National Volunteer Week Celebrations: Rex Porter, Jay, Olivia, Lynn and David Webb  

Opportunities for Digital Skills development
One of the SAcommunity Volunteer benefits is access to the Connecting Up Digital Learning Platform for online training and development with a selection of relevant live webinars and recorded webinars, workshops and webcons for life-long learning from a series of subject matter experts.

Professional Development at Infoxchange is a balance of approximately 70% project / 20% peer-to-peer learning / 10% formal learning. For the SAcommunity Team there is approximately 15 hours of project work, 3 hours of peer-to-peer learning, and 1 hour of online webinar with 30 minutes of feedback to reflect and strengthen team members understanding of what was learnt and what their personal takeaways were from these educational sessions facilitating life-long learning.