What to do about youth employability
Research tells us which steps to take and the benefit of local networks in generating employment opportunities
Being young and in need of a job, in a world as complex as this. A goal that can be achieved by combining personal skills, regional networks, meeting companies’ needs – not an easy path to take, yet a possible one, at least.
These are the themes around which revolve the research studies collected in Competenze trasversali e digitali per il futuro del lavoro: il caso del progetto Engage (Transversal and digital skills for the future of employment: the case of the Engage project), curated by a team of authors that includes local researchers and professionals. More in detail, this volume’s essays tackle the theme of youth employability, with particular reference to the research undertaken to analyse digital and soft skills, which nowadays are considered crucial for the future of employment. Indeed, this publication is the outcome of a complex project (Engage), which saw a collaboration of regional enterprises, third-sector bodies and universities aimed at reducing the gap between job request and job offers. After a section dedicated to the relationship between university education and people’s employability, the research studies include, among others, topics ranging from the help available nowadays for the development of digital and transversal skills to the exploration of a possible self-evaluation model related to soft skills created specifically for the Engage project, as well as a description of the Engage project itself – which aims to promote career management skills to targeted students in schools and universities – and an analysis of the career management skills method underlying lifelong learning and placement opportunities for young people.
In addition, these research studies also represent a valid example of good practice with which research can build networks for the development and planning of a community that is both inclusive and able to generate further inspiration for growth.
A good combination of practical real-life examples and the creation of a network including research and actions already undertaken is what best informs this work’s content, which represents: a great example of regional engagement aimed at developing employment opportunities on the territory, as well as its corporate culture.
Competenze trasversali e digitali per il futuro del lavoro: il caso del progetto Engage (Transversal and digital skills for the future of employment: the case of the Engage project)
AA.VV., Franco Angeli, 2022
Research tells us which steps to take and the benefit of local networks in generating employment opportunities
Being young and in need of a job, in a world as complex as this. A goal that can be achieved by combining personal skills, regional networks, meeting companies’ needs – not an easy path to take, yet a possible one, at least.
These are the themes around which revolve the research studies collected in Competenze trasversali e digitali per il futuro del lavoro: il caso del progetto Engage (Transversal and digital skills for the future of employment: the case of the Engage project), curated by a team of authors that includes local researchers and professionals. More in detail, this volume’s essays tackle the theme of youth employability, with particular reference to the research undertaken to analyse digital and soft skills, which nowadays are considered crucial for the future of employment. Indeed, this publication is the outcome of a complex project (Engage), which saw a collaboration of regional enterprises, third-sector bodies and universities aimed at reducing the gap between job request and job offers. After a section dedicated to the relationship between university education and people’s employability, the research studies include, among others, topics ranging from the help available nowadays for the development of digital and transversal skills to the exploration of a possible self-evaluation model related to soft skills created specifically for the Engage project, as well as a description of the Engage project itself – which aims to promote career management skills to targeted students in schools and universities – and an analysis of the career management skills method underlying lifelong learning and placement opportunities for young people.
In addition, these research studies also represent a valid example of good practice with which research can build networks for the development and planning of a community that is both inclusive and able to generate further inspiration for growth.
A good combination of practical real-life examples and the creation of a network including research and actions already undertaken is what best informs this work’s content, which represents: a great example of regional engagement aimed at developing employment opportunities on the territory, as well as its corporate culture.
Competenze trasversali e digitali per il futuro del lavoro: il caso del progetto Engage (Transversal and digital skills for the future of employment: the case of the Engage project)
AA.VV., Franco Angeli, 2022