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Social Media Mentors

2020-1-EE01-KA105-0777552020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: EE|RS|DE|MK|RO|BG|SE · Grant: €21,037
EU Citizenship, EU awareness and DemocracyICT - new technologies - digital competencesLabour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Objectives

The project pretends to tackle the challenges that young people face when try to enter the job market. Due to the economical crisis the transition from education to job sector is becoming more and more hard and strategies need to be created in order to speed up this process. One of the effective way that everybody has at own disposal nowadays are ICT tools and social media. Young people have constantly access to the Internet and are the best experts in managing social media; nevertheless, they do not always use them in a safe and responsible way. For this reason, they may incur in problems not only in terms of personal safety but also by harming their own reputation online - for instance uploading inappropriate contents on their personal social profile – and wasting the opportunity to be a good job candidate on the labour market. Enterprises’ human resources and job recruiters are exploiting social networks and web platforms more and more to search for suitable candidates; nonetheless in many cases young people seems not be aware of the importance to protect their own reputation online, especially while searching for job opportunities. Therefore, through this project we aim at responding these needs to well equip youth workers and leaders with knowledge, competences and skills as well as innovative and interactive methodologies to empower the employability of young people. The GENERAL AIM of this project it to promote youth employment through an effective and appropriate use of digital tools, especially social media. The main OBJECTIVES of the training are: 1) Raise awareness among about the use of ICTs and social media as tool for job recruitment and promoting an aware, responsible use of them by young people in order to access to the European labour market 2) Exploring the concept of Digital Identity and Reputation and learning how to create and maintain a good digital reputation 3) Exploring and testing non formal education methodologies – digital mentoring – and other interactive, peer-to-peer tools to be used in youth work, adjusting them to young people specific needs and creating new one.

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