Employability and soft skills for vulnerable youth

Starting 2022, from Fundación Acción Joven, we reactivate with strength our initiatives focused on employability. The context of the pandemic has affected the economy in Costa Rica, generating significant effects on the professional future of many young people nationwide. Therefore, the objective that we propose is to contribute with actions that improve the employability profile of young people, allowing them to adapt to changes in the labor market. For this year, we started with the following actions:

• Generate groups to strengthen employability with local governments in the province of Guanacaste, and impact 90 local governments in the country in institutional strengthening.
• Work with youth from public high schools in employability workshops.
• Execute workshops with young people from the Alternative Sanctions Program of the juvenile penal, on employability.

Help us be part of the change!!

During this year we have worked with young people seeking to improve their employability profile, from high schools and communities, impacting 98 young people by June 2021, with the execution of 23 workshop-type activities where we promote the development of skills and tools that allow them to improve your employability profile.

For the remaining period, we have planned the execution of virtual vocational tours, through videos that allow young people to learn about companies and their various areas of work, despite the challenges of virtuality.

Thanks to the support of important companies and committed people, every year we can have a major reach, updating our methodologies to the needs of youth and responding virtually or in person to new challenges.

We invite you to continue supporting.