Handbook for JobSeekers
The training tool for unemployed – Handbook for Jobseekers, is designed for people who are difficult to place in the labour market. Its aim is to support them in their self-study endeavours, with or without the help of counsellors. The Handbook for unemployed is developed in a modular fashion and includes the following learning modules:
- Self-awareness
- Opportunity-awareness
- Goal Setting
- Job searching skills I
- Job searching skills II
- Required skills and competences for new emerging professions in social work, administrative and business services sectors
- Personal development
- Electronic preparation of application documents
- The Interview
- First days on new work
- Labour regulations and rights
- Basic course in English
The Handbook for jobseekers is based upon:
1) raising awareness of the trainees about their knowledge, skills, personal strengths and interests;
2) building the ability of trainees to adjust their skills and competencies to the employers’ needs and develop their adequate skills and creative potential;
3) building job-finding competencies – job searching skills, applying for a job, going on an interview, underlying personal strengths;
4) providing knowledge in basic English in order to increase their employability.
This Handbook is available in electronic and printed version and is distributed free of charge.