The non-formal education course Job-Yes is addressed to people with a disadvantaged background and fewer opportunities in the labor market. The course aims to let them acquire those transversal skills (soft skills) that like the technical and practical ones (hard skills), are necessary for empoyability purposes. All of this thanks to an innovative and participative process structured in a way that allows to actively involves its participants.
This course is totally free and can be entirely taken online in an autonomous way, by consulting the website job-yes.eu, or with the help of a facilitator in a training center. All participants can take advantage of four intuitive and interactive tools: the Self-need analysis, which allows to self-asses one’s own level in 49 soft skills; a series of 40 Exercises based on Open Educational Resources thanks to which it is possible to develop transversal skills connected to the labor market; the Knowledge Portfolio, useful to set up a CV as it allows to classify and verify the competences acquired during your life thanks to educational and working experiences; the Action Plan, essential to effectively organise the activities that are necessary to find a job, to start one’s own business and to go on in the process of formal and non-formal training in order to increase one’s own abilities.
The competences on which the course has focused can be divided into four families: the social and civic ones allow people to participate in a constructive and efficient way in the working life; the learning to learn category involves all those competences connected to the organisation of learning either in a group or independently, as well as the awareness of methods and opportunities to certify the acquired knowledge and skills; sense of initiative and entrepreneurship refers to the ability of putting into practice ideas and create one’s own job; digital competences do not just involve basic abilities in using information and communication technologies (ICT) but also the ability to use social networks as useful tools for a successful job research.
A first Job-Yes training course took place at CESIE from the 26th September to the 17th October 2016 and it involved 15 unemployed people with different backgrounds: migrants, low outcome young people and long-term unemployed. The experience was absolutely positive: at the end of the course all participants were aware of the transversal competences they own and of those they need to enhance, and they also received new inputs to better face job research, without making trivial (but common) mistakes.
For further information about the project, visit the website: http://job-yes.eu/ or contact Ms. Jelena Mazaj: jelena.mazaj@cesie.org
