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Passionate - Seeing with an eye for how industry impacts people.
4 years ago I had an opportunity to serve as a judge for a day, judging the finalist of a speech contest. Before this day, I had limited understanding of the environmental threats to our world. The contest was a group of finalist from grades 1
Global Youth Employability Now! A transformative employability education and training program helping to develop and built young people's capacity across the world to move and grow into work.
Across industries and continents, the skills required of young people in the job market are remarkably similar. While jobs have more or less 'technical' content, the majority of them require generic skills which ensure that an individual can functio
HOW ENTREPRENEURSHIP HELPS IN GENERATING EMPLOYMENT TO THE YOUTH???
ENTREPRENEURSHIP HELPS IN GENERATING EMPLOYMENT TO THE YOUTH
Do know What Small Cash Can do?
I have heard this over and over and over..." Friend, I just need a little cash to start this business". It is wrong to believe that most unemployed youth don't have the skills necessary to be employed rather it is better to say they don't have ne
Youth Employment Centres in Peru and Bolivia
Since 2009, Cuso International and its partners have opened six Youth Employment Centres (CJEs) in Peru and Bolivia. These centres have helped more than 10,000 disadvantaged and vulnerable youth aged 15 to 29 set livelihood goals, gain employment or
Employers are willing to hire people without college degrees so long as they have...
As part of an independent study project during my graduate studies, I interviewed employers in 5 industrie: Clerical, Sales, Manufacturing, Health Care, and IT. I focused on these industries because the Bureau of Labor Statistics states that 63% of
Start preparing children from a young age for D-Day
Honing a child's vocational skills, extracurriculars and inter-personal skills from a young age is the need of the hour. This will give them the exposure required; enabling them to become well-rounded young individuals capable of facing any kind of
MIT Professor Erik Brynjolfsson says Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are automating many mid-skill jobs but not low skill or high skill ones
While a graduate student at MIT, I took a class with Professor Eric Brynjolfsson. He's published many papers and books, including Race Against the Machine. Most of his work centers around how Technology has impacted our labor dynamics. One of his ke
Pathways to employment: how do we create bright futures for young people?
When the UN marked International Youth Day on Monday 12 August, the challenges facing young people were firmly placed in the spotlight, none more so than the fact that nearly 290 million young people are out of work globally, almost a quarter of the
Renewing the American Dream for Young Workers: Education and Economic Opportunities for Young Americans
In this paper, we first explain the current state of young American workers, and offer six alternative policies that address youth unemployment. We then evaluate their effectiveness and feasibility through a multi-attribute analysis, and provide a re
Tackling Youth Unemployment with Social Media in Mexico & Latin America
Oportunidades para Internacionalistas is a youth-led virtual network that aims to share educational and professional opportunities, particularly students and graduates of International Relations (Political Science). The network was founded in Mexico
NY Cares- a volunteer model for paid work
At 28 I quit my full time job to freelance and ideally find a new field of work. I was a graphic designer and interested in fields ranging from journalism and teaching to ecology and even considered becoming a park ranger. I immediately realized
Redesigning The Apprenticeship System To Meet The Challenge of Skill Dearth Among Youth
There is no argument that skill dearth among youths is a major cause of unemployment among this demography. Our present institution of learning has become so organized, academic and pedantic that it has lost its paramount aim of establishment. Howe
An alumni career network for the public good
Originally Princeton Project 55, this organization was founded 25 years ago by the Princeton Class of 1955 to help graduating Princeton seniors find meaningful jobs in the non-profit sector. It has placed thousands of recent alumni in non-profit jobs
Building Sustainable Communities in Trenton, NJ (www.isles.org)
"Trenton Isles Youth Institute (IYI) engages disconnected youth; many of whom have been involved with the juvenile justice system, some who have children, some who are homeless and others who have dropped out of traditional high schools, and helps t
purposegeneration.com
a new company created by two millennials to help companies better recruit and engage millennials
Red Compass will provide Career Guidance & Support Program focused on vocational skills for youth from low income backgrounds
Red Compass believes that a large scale skilling initiative, such as what India needs, cannot achieve success purely through the scaling of training centers and infrastructure, but also by addressing two foundational requirements simultaneously avail
Stop Asking Kids What They Want To Be When They Grow Up
Educators have an impossible job: preparing students for an unknown job market. Think about that for a minute. No economist in the world can tell a child what the job market is going to look like after they graduate college. Jaime Casap, the Globa
Social Capital
"Social capital refers to the institutions, relationships, and norms that shape the quality and quantity of a society's social interactions. Increasing evidence shows that social cohesion is critical for societies to prosper economically and for deve
WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE TAKE IT UP
If All would believe in what a young, innovative, fresh mind could achieve and gave proper platform, guideline and supervision, All young people All over the world would dedicate their best .This is not always the case, as so often, new ideas are vie
Have Passion , Character , Skills ,Education and Knowledge but no job . No longer . Be HIRED.
Lets meet five youth. Tiko from Kenya has CHARACTER. A big smile and a big heart but no job. Mitch from Detroit has a PASSION for cars and knows them backwards but is not employed. Anna from Rome has SKILLS in that she can cook and is very organised