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Motivation and Job Opportunities Support Services (MOJO)

Due to the limited resources available the amount of time and the intensity of the support offered by Public Employment Services is often insufficient in its content to support many long term unemployed people through to job readiness and employment, a factor contributing to the growing number of long term unemployed. The EU's own research and other independent research confirms this. The need for basic services such as skills acquisition, careers advice, vacancy identification and the required job matching support for the long term unemployed presents a complex mix of social, economic, skills, education, employment, health related and cultural challenges which are not addressed by current support regimes. The MOJO programme is designed to fill the gap. The MOJO process and methodology has been transfered the MOJO from the UK to 5 other EU countries where it's been tested, embeded into new environments and new approaches have been developed to take into account the systems of the various region. One of the aims of MOJO was to involves employment support experts, coaches, mentors and employers in an integrated process that directly engages with the long term unemployed. Other aims of the project was to profile individual concerns and motivations amongst the long term unemployed to inform future practice - evaluate current intensive employment support practice and establish a wider community of practice amongst unemployment service specialists- identify how this support service links to mainstream support, providing added value and economic impact for the regions - engage and discuss with employers in the regions, in order to ensure that the service provided ultimately provides employable, work-ready individuals, able to access opportunities available to them.The feedback received from long-term unemployed people confirmed the value of the intensive and personalised service. MOJO focuses on the'complete person',focuses on the individual and is not directly linked to location, culture or social position.
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