Employability skills are the "key skills and personal attributes you need to enter, operate and thrive in the new world of work." They are necessary skills for getting, keeping and being successful in a job. These competences have large impacts on access to the labor market. All these skills are also called transferable skills because they can be transferred between different job and various employment sectors. It is an undeniable fact that having work-related skills is necessary but not enough. The main thing ensuring sustainability in work life is the very long-term employability skills. These skills increase job retention time and reduce the time to leave work early. Because employers are often looking for skills that go beyond experience and technical skills. How qualified is the staff with technical skills, it is not of so much value without aforementioned employability qualities. Because employees who are lack of these competences tend to quit work. This means a waste of staff training cost for foundations. This deficiency,for foundations, leads to critical and long-term employment problems and high personnel training costs. It also causes decrease in labor and service productivity. Additionally, for the young, it leads to unemployment and social exclusion which derives from the unemployment. In sum, low employment rate and manpower of low quality adversely affect Turkey's global competitiveness and transition to the knowledge economy. The main purpose of this project is to determine the long-term employability skills of youth, reveal the training strategies and to create a training methodology for youth trainers. TURKONFED is the applicant organisation. Other partners are İSEM, GLOBEST, JA Turkey, IED,ITPIO,MC 2020, TDM 2000. In the Project, two different surveys will be used. The first one will be for employers to determine what qualities they expect from the new employees. Every partner will use this survey for 15 foundation. The second one will be for employees what qualities they have before the employment process. All the partners will apply these two surveys in their country. The results will be evaluated both within the local level and between the partner countries. These surveys will have local and international analysis reports. Then, Good practices will be compiled. The people having these forseen long-term employability skills and success stories will be recorded. According to all this information compiled, a training methodolody and curriculum will be created. Firstly, the youth trainers will join the training and then in every partner country pilot trainings will take place for young people. Many youth seminars will be arranged to make them aware of these skills. At last, labor market valorisation seminer will take place.
Employability skills are the “key skills and personal attributes you need to enter, operate and thrive in the new world of work.” They are necessary skills for getting, keeping and being successful in a job. These competences have large impacts on access to the labor market. All these skills are also called transferable skills because they can be transferred between different job and various employment sectors. It is an undeniable fact that having work-related skills is necessary but not enough. The main objective of this project is to determine the long-term employability skills of youth, reveal the training strategies and to create a training methodology for youth trainers. Other important objective is to increase an awereness between youth about the most important employability skills. These skills increase job retention time and reduce the time to leave work early. TURKONFED is the applicant organisation. Other partners are İSEM (Govermental Organization), GLOBEST (NGO), JA Turkey (NGO works for Youth), IED (entrepreneurial organization),ITPIO (Continious training center),MC 2020 (Training Center), TDM 2000 /(Youth Organization). Worth project developed four important intellectual outputs which are as follows: IO1: Assesment of the long-term employability and transferable skills of youth in Europe: Partners developed a need analysis to find out the current situation with regards to the long-term employability skills that are required and that are considered to be necessary for youth to enter the labour market in their countries. IO2: Provide a Compilation of Success Stories for the Promotion of the Use of Employability Skills in Youth Employment: Many good practicies in the field of entrepreneurship was searched and a general report was developed by the partner countries.IO3. Creation of Training Contents on Long-Term Employability Skills:Based on the desk research and IO1 project partners developed a cirriculum consist of nine modules which will help youth to be employed. The modules are:Leasership,Taking a risk, Decision Making,Planning and Priotizing,Self Confidence,Communication,Business Writting and Presentation,Foreign Language,ICT Skills. Tese modules were developed and seminars were provided to the youth.IO4. An Online Learning Environment: The last IO is the open resource platform for youth. Youth can take the training based on their needs in this platform (http://elearning.worthproject.org). As a result worth project developed a country report which contains the current situation and needs for employability in english and in partner languages. Good practicies report was developed in English and in Partner languaces which navigate youth for employment. This curriculum conmtains nine modules for youth to identify, develop and enhance their long-term employability skills was developen in English and in partner languages. It is available in project e-learning platform accessible in lik http://elearning.worthproject.org. All project outputs can be found in the project web site http://worthproject.org. Worth project partners organized two dissemination activities to increase awearenes for long termm employability skills between yout in their countries and a big valorization seminar was organized in Turkey. Unemployment rates in Europe have been increasing rapidly over the past few years. With the financial crisis hitting young men and women hard it is nearly impossible for the European society to see any chance of a bright future. At least not for the next few years. Things are not very clear. Some say that the situation is getting better. Others say that things are deteriorating faster than before.Long term employability is very important topic in all over the world. We are expecting that via e-learning platform many peer will get training and realise their needs and update them for long term employability.