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Youth unemployment: realities and solutions
Youth unemployment: realities and solutions
Start date: Jan 1, 2016,
End date: Dec 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Some young people wants to look for work but they don't know how. Others try but the process goes wrong. Perhaps because they don't use the most appropriate strategies. No one is born taught, and when the time comes to face the job market, it is natural to feel a certain disorientation, because this type of learning is not done, usually in schools. On the other hand, some of the closest people may be to give them some tips that worked in other times but are now dysfunctional, because the market has changed.The good news is that seeking employment is learned. Discover the best sites for ad search, know how to use personal contacts to be informed about job openings, build a good CV or a letter of appealing presentation, submit unsolicited applications properly, it is learned. The personal marketing will also be working, knowing "sell" what we are and what we have to offer and, before that, knowing how to communicate. This concept is strongly reflected, for example, in the job interviews. The skills of young people can be the good but the person on the other side will not guess it and he will only collect the information that they are able to transmit during the few moments that they have to do this. This "first impression" is not just a result of what is said or not, but the body posture that is adopted or image that we present ourselves. It will be worked the best way to the participants transmit what they have good, communicating it properly, including, among other exercises, simutations of job interviews. It is still produced an informational video about Insertion Opportunities in the Market, Job Search Techniques and Tips for Entrepreneurship. The objective of this project will transmit all of these techniques and help participants to use them for their own benefit or to support young people in their organizations.This project has been designed in order to work one of the biggest problems of our time - youth unemployment. We selected organizations working directly with young people and who share a deep concern about the current job crisis, especially with regard to its impact on young people and evidence to suggest, both in terms of risk of poverty and social failure.This project will be held from 19th to 27th February 2016, in Foz Coa, Portugal and it will involve 26 young people from 8 different countries. We will select young people with an active role in society, which are part of an organization or that are somehow able to influence others. These young people should have an entrepreneurial profile, incorporating skills such as leadership, proactivity, dynamism, ability to work in teams, critical spirit, empathy, negotiation skills and self evaluation. These young people, since they already have some of the above skills may improve them and acquire new tools during this project, in order to get motivate and mobilize their local communities, contributing to a change of mentality and attitude to problem of each country, placing young people as active elements of their own change. The primary objective of this project relates to the training of youth leaders to create locals to support young people to find jobs and to develop entrepreneurship skills. The project itself implies a sharing of learning and experiences, not just reaching one youngster, but encouraging him to influence everyone else.