Soft skills, also known as people skills, enabled youngsters to get better jobs, keep them for a longer time, and fit in the collective of a workplace. Unfortunately, these skills were not addressed by the formal educational system in Europe. In a research carried out by McKinsey in 2016, that involved more than 8,000 people in eight European countries (France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom), one-third of employers said that lack of skills caused major business problems in the form of cost, quality, or time. The report showed that universities and companies often moved in “parallel universes”: while the majority of education providers (74%) were confident that their graduates were prepared for work, yet only 35% of employers had the same opinion. As far as young people were concerned, only 42% believed they had received adequate training for work. Furthermore, there was a LinkedIn research which pointed out that while hiring managers always looked for technical skills and job experience, it was the soft skills that drove success. 92% of respondents said soft skills were more important than technical skills and 89% said that bad hires typically lacked soft skills. To ensure that the project addressed real needs, we created a short form (10 questions) which was already disseminated by every partner among their network. 100 youngsters who responded to this questionnaire mentioned that they rarely learned basic soft skills in school such as critical thinking, communication, leadership, and a positive attitude. 88% of the participants in the needs analysis believed that if they developed the above-mentioned skills, they could get hired faster and they could also get better jobs. When asked if they believed leadership was something that could be developed, only 10% said yes. We also asked young people if they could think critically when they made important decisions regarding their life and only 45% believed they did, while 20% stated they would go with the easiest choice and the remaining amount didn’t know exactly what critical thinking referred to. Moreover, when we asked them if they held a positive attitude, only 60% said yes. When asked if they could communicate efficiently with others, only 53% of the participants responded positively. Forbes Magazine found that some of the most desirable skills for the next 10 years were critical thinking, communication, creativity, cultural intelligence and diversity, problem solving, leadership, and collaboration. During the youth exchange, participants had a chance to go through a different learning experience during which they used several practical tools that aimed at fostering various skills and abilities that they could use in school, such as leadership, collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and decision making. The main objectives of the project were: O1. To develop Social and Personal Competence of 28 young people. O2. To raise awareness about the importance of Social and Personal Competencies for the workplace of at least 500 people. The purpose of the project was to enhance young people’s competencies required by future employers. The unemployment medium rate for the EU for youngsters (15-29 years old) was 7.1. In Romania, the unemployment rate for the same age group was 5.5, higher with 0.7% than in 2020; for Bulgaria, it stayed the same at 3.7. For Spain, the unemployment rate was in 2021, 14, making it the first European country regarding unemployment. Italy was also in the top 5 countries regarding unemployment with a rate of 8.5. Portugal had a rate of 7.7, Armenia 20.9, and in North Macedonia 16.20. Taking into consideration all of the above, we believed that it was a clear need of developing competencies not job-related, but which could make youngsters shine during an interview and could assure them success in getting and keeping the job they wanted.