Professional Orientation and Social Participation
This is a training, professional guidance and volunteer initiative designed to improve the employability of unemployed young people and those at risk of social exclusion.
Objectives
- To provide professional guidance to unemployed young people for their access to job market.
- To improve the young people contact network and to offer them tools to facilitate the job search.
- To help establish a professional relationship with a mentor and offer a broad vision of their professional sector.
- To encourage the social commitment of young people within their communities, as volunteering is promoted as a tool for social participation.
Project Phases
- Interview. Participants must conduct a face-to-face interview with the personal of Helsinki España. If this is not possible, the interview may be conducted by videoconference. The interview aim is to get to know the professional profile of those interested, as well as their aspirations and concerns for the world of work, with the ultimate purpose of finding a mentor that fits their needs.
- Training Day. The Project includes training sessions aimed at improving participant’s skills, professional competences and skills for their job search and self-employment. The content of the training includes aspects such as: tools for the job search; employability coefficient optimization; personal marketing; keys to entrepreneurship; professional positioning in social networks; Eures network; how to make a good resume and cover letters; skills to improve the network of contacts and networking.
- Volunteering. The young participants collaborate on a voluntary basis with a social project under the motivation of returning to their communities the time and dedication that their mentors have spent with them. The objective of this phase of volunteering is to generate in young participants a feeling of social commitment and encourage participation in their communities, thus reducing their risk of social exclusion. Volunteering, in addition to being a mechanism for social participation, fosters values such as solidarity, faith in people and teamwork, and helps young people rebuild their confidence, self-esteem and motivation, feeling socially useful.
- Professional Guidance. The project includes individualized orientation sessions led by mentors with different professional profiles who provide professional advice and support to the participants during the project. Each young participant is assigned to a specific mentor according to his or her professional profile and interests. The objective of this phase is that both mentors and participants generate a solid personal relationship aimed at defining and focusing the professional project of young people, expanding their networking and multiplying their job opportunities.
How To Participate?
Send your updated CV to the following e-mail address: mjaen@helsinkiespana.org
Cayetana Fernández García
Helsinki Spain Mentorship Program
Graduating university is an exciting time, but it can also be frustrating because of the uncertainty of your future. This frustration has been exacerbated this 2020 with the current situation, so many of us young people have felt doubtful, tired and with little faith in the near future. However, thanks to the Helsinki Spain Mentorship Program I found not only a source of knowledge about the job market I was going to jump in, but also a huge amount of hope, inspiration and advice that has led me to get my dream internship. Ana Urgoiti has been and continues to be my mentor, together we have had numerous calls where I not only got my professional future right, but also forged a lasting friendship. Thanks to her experience, her knowledge and her valuable advice, I have been able to clarify the path I would like to take, as well as to understand how to get there. Now I have obtained an internship at the International Federation of the Red Cross in Panama, and I am quite sure that everything I have learned with Ana has helped me to get here and continue growing in this area in the future.
I certainly encourage all young people to try the Helsinki Spain Mentorship program, as it will not only help them to clear their minds about their professional future, but they will discover things about themselves that they may not have known, and above all, they will establish a very close relationship with a professional in their area of knowledge that will serve as a great inspiration and motivation to keep fighting for what they want.
Graduating university is an exciting time, but it can also be frustrating because of the uncertainty of your future. This frustration has been exacerbated this 2020 with the current situation, so many of us young people have felt doubtful, tired and with little faith in the near future.
However, thanks to the Helsinki Spain Mentorship Program I found not only a source of knowledge about the job market I was going to jump in, but also a huge amount of hope, inspiration and advice that has led me to get my dream internship. Ana Urgoiti has been and continues to be my mentor, together we have had numerous calls where I not only got my professional future right, but also forged a lasting friendship. Thanks to her experience, her knowledge and her valuable advice, I have been able to clarify the path I would like to take, as well as to understand how to get there. Now I have obtained an internship at the International Federation of the Red Cross in Panama, and I am quite sure that everything I have learned with Ana has helped me to get here and continue growing in this area in the future.
I certainly encourage all young people to try the Helsinki Spain Mentorship program, as it will not only help them to clear their minds about their professional future, but they will discover things about themselves that they may not have known, and above all, they will establish a very close relationship with a professional in their area of knowledge that will serve as a great inspiration and motivation to keep fighting for what they want.
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