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Creating a future for a young person’s employment

  The current economic crisis has created an unprecedented situation for the workplace. As if the labour market was not confusing and daunting enough. According to the Guardian (2021), the under 35s account for 80% of the jobs lost in the past year. Shockingly, this demonstrates that young people are more vulnerable to unemployment and redundancies. Therefore, young people must prepare to be resilient, they must receive the correct support to guide them through this period of uncertainty and come out positively on the other side. Working life is vital for many people to feel a sense of identity and finding their place within society. In turn, this promotes self-worth, confidence and overall happiness This short article will demonstrate some ways in which you can be a positive part of this process and help to positively shape the working life and experience of your clients, learners or friends.  The first way that you can support them is to be a second pair of eyes! This may take the fo

Creating support models for participation in future work life project | The importance of international colaboration

The Create Future – Creating support models for participation in future work life -project is an Erasmus+ funded project which focuses on the creation of a diversity toolkit for employers, career guidance professionals and support workers to enable them to use the latest coaching models to support their clients and colleagues who may be facing a particular struggle or disadvantage.  One of the main objectives at this project is to focus on international collaboration and how to take it into account in the project development process. We also strive to use design process methods in collaboration, placing emphasis on how to evolve end users in the project development work. For collaboration, the design process brings structure and supports it in the back round at various stages, such as problem definition, end-user involvement, and output formulation.  In this project, our main target group is the support staff who work with people with special learning needs or double disadvantages.  Th