BEST – Building Employability Skills Together, Campina 2019
20 – 29 September 2019 (with travel days)
This project was design to guide participants through the key issues in identifying the relevant core skills for employability, understanding their importance and ways these skills can be delivered, attained and recognized. Generally, education improves a young person’s chances of securing a better quality job, and increases his/her productivity and income. In countries involved in this project, for example, unemployment among young people aged 20–24 who have completed upper secondary education is reduced by 7.4 percentage points. Still, the youth unemployment situation in 2018 was for most of involved countries under EU rate (15.1%): Spain 33.2% (second place after Greece), Serbia 25,3%, Turkey 22.3% and Romania 16.8%. Just Poland was above EU rate with 10.9%.
Skills have become increasingly important in the globalized world. Vocational and technical skills are essential, but employers are seeking applicants with more. They want employees who can continue to learn and adapt; read, write and compute competently; listen and communicate effectively; think creatively; solve problems independently; manage themselves at work; interact with co-workers; work in teams or groups; handle basic technology, lead effectively as well as follow supervision. These core skills for employability are both important to employers’ recruitment and enhance an individual’s ability to secure a job, retain employment and move flexibly in the labor market as well as engage in lifelong learning.
Together Romania Association 