Pre-employment programme and toolkit to foster job preparation skills of low skilled and marginalized students to enhance their employment opportunities upon completion of the school
▶Summary
Our main objectives were: - to catalyse change in labour market participation and reduce unemployment of marginalised youth, the improvement of the individual's’ employability towards sustained ec...
▶Objectives
Our main objectives were: - to catalyse change in labour market participation and reduce unemployment of marginalised youth, the improvement of the individual's’ employability towards sustained economic growth in Bulgaria and Turkiye. - to prepare marginalised students on how to maintain positive physical and verbal image, how to improve their verbal and non-verbal communication, how to be answer difficult questions during job interviews, how to prepare in digital format their Europass CV & cover letter as well as which channels to use in terms of searching for a job. This led to greater independence, which give to them more chances for labour market inclusion. - to reach the sustainable development goals in reducing poverty and exclusion via acquisition of job preparation skills and their further development, which enables students with fewer opportunities to cope with the career preparation in an understandable and captivating way. - to develop a customised pre-employment support toolkit according to the identified students' needs specifically addressing pre-employment preparation for these students with fewer opportunities at the last grades of their education. This was fully achieved via 1 year of career guidance programme.
▶Activities
The project work programme was organised in 5 major activities: A1: Project administrative and financial management A2: Internal quality management and internal evaluation A3: Transnational partners meetings A4: Awareness rising, promotion, dissemination and exploitation activities A5: Intellectual results (development and pilot implementation) Detailed information about the sub-actions under each one of them is provided in section Activities. Overall we have developed and implemented Tailored pre-employment school career guidance programme specially adapted for vulnerable to the labour market students, who have existing problems on labour market and society exclusion in Bulgaria and Turkiye - available in EN, BG and TR languages. - Training of 40 teachers and pedagogical counsellors (initially planned 20) in Bulgaria and Turkiye - Preparation of 120 last grades students (initially planned 40) for the job interviews and labour success. - Wider dissemination and exploitation of the programme - Project management, administrative and financial activities, quality assurance and internal evaluation activities (all described in section Activities).
▶Impact
- IR1 (A5):A pre-employment school career guidance programme toolkit on topics: how to maintain positive physical and verbal image, how to improve their verbal and non-verbal communication, how to answer difficult questions during job interviews, how to prepare in digital format their CV and cover letter etc. - IR2 (A5): Illustrative info cards about how to apply for credit, how to prepare and submit documents to tax authorities and how to ensure successful labour market inclusion - Project website - www.visage4jobs.eu - Project Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/visage4jobs - Consolidated piloting reports - from Bulgaria and Turkiye