The project goal was to help the employees from FØNIX gain increased practical skills in their respective fields of work and contribute to develop better career guidance tools for young job seekers/drop-outs. This in the spesific field of Supported Employment and Individual Placement and Support.
FONIX) is one of the largest companies within the vocational rehabilitation market in Norway. Our main office is in Sandefjord, Norway, supporting 11 regional offices in the county of Vestfold. FONIX has approx. 200 employees – mostly certified trainers and instructors / teachers. At any time during the year, this service includes approximately 2.000 learners / jobseekers and approximately 300 migrants / language learners. FONIX base our service provision on each persons' individual need for assistance, regarding their work capacity. We coach everyone towards ordinary employment through qualification and job training. “Individual Placement and Support” and “Supported Employment” is benchmark methodology, applied for the group of jobseekers in need of an extensive follow up in the open labor market. FONIX also provide “Work Preparatory Training” for people who need to establish necessary basic job skills, lifelong career guidance, language training and work-related integration for migrants. We applied for the project in order to seek out expertise in the area of Individual Placement and Support for our employees working with youth and adults having difficulties entering or re-entereing the job market.