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Social Roadmap to Employment
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

This training course is as a result of many years of experience with young people and social media. It also takes into account workshops and seminars that we have followed or offered to young people and takes the input from young people discussing their problems, their experiences and their knowledge with regard to social media. We will support various methodologies of using social media for benefit and we will include the possibility of using social media as a means for finding employment for youth. The training course will help youth workers and educators develop new methodologies and implement proven working methods to help protect youth from the dangers of social media and to help them use it responsibly and at the same time helping them use this medium as a way to find employment or to advance their career or even their businesses. We will look at how youth organisations can use social media to promote their organisation and keep youth more active in their communities, to bring youth closer to you and to be able to use it to promote youth work and youth participation. The youth workers, educators and youth will share their knowledge and experience with others and together we will create a new social media group that will help in the promotion of employment and entrepreneurialism of social media for our young today and future generations. Social media has become the norm for most young people today and endless hours are spent on social media. The idea of this training course which will help develop methods and approaching which will allow youth workers to take advantage of social media in order to help youth with the serious unemployment problems which they face during the current crisis. Not only to help youth workers but to develop strategies and methodologies to help young people understand the importance of responsible usage of social media and to use social media as a tool to find employment or promote themselves or their services. The training course addressed the various problems in each country and tried to find European based solutions for these problems. We looked at the negative impact of social media, especially with regard to how it affects chances of employment and give the tools to youth workers and organisations to help youth in each of the communities to take advantage of social media. We also developed strategies to turn social media into more of a learning experience rather than a platform to waste time. We explored the impact of social media on social skills and saw a great need to create physical interactive opportunities for your people to help them develop their social and interpersonal skills. Our hope is to be able to make social media, a tool enjoyed by all youth, and turn it into a platform which will allow them to learn and also create jobs, find jobs and even develop business skills. The objective of the project is to help youth workers help young people to turn social media and technology into a tool which can help them find employment, promote themselves, their ideas, even their business ideas, and also to enhance and enrich their skills and knowledge. To help overcome common problems seen regarding the incorrect and irresponsible usage of social media and allow young people to understand the risks and dangers and at the same time reap the benefits of such technology for their benefit. We explored the different types of social media and saw how we can use each of these for the benefit of young people and especially to help them increase their employability. As a result of this training course we have developed several workshops to help young people increase their social responsibility online and post sensible, workshops on cyber bullying and more specifically identifying risks and dangers on social media, with emphasis on minors, we also develop a workshop detailing the various tools available to young people to find employment or increase their skills and competences.

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