Editor’s note: This article was first published in April 2012; it covers the fourth edition of the program, run in April and May of that year, and the ManpowerGroup figures it cites (more than 60 years, $22 billion) date from 2012.
Writing a CV, learning the secrets of a job interview and thinking about how your studies affect your chances in the job market are some of the skills that Manpower employees, in collaboration with Junior Achievement, are teaching young people aged 15 to 17 who are at the stage of choosing their future career.
The program runs in Barcelona, Madrid and Seville and is now in its fourth edition. It is aimed at students in the final year of compulsory secondary education (ESO), the first year of Bachillerato (Spain’s two-year pre-university course) and students on intermediate and higher vocational training courses. It takes place in April and May, in seven-hour sessions with around thirty volunteers taking part.
The aim of the collaboration
The idea is to give young people tools to help them move on to higher education and into the job market, encouraging them to understand how their academic achievements relate to their future employment and to explore different career options.
During the sessions, students do self-reflection exercises, take a close look at different professions, discover different communication styles, write their own CV, learn how to fill in job applications and “act out” job interviews.
The aim is to raise awareness and bring the reality of the job market closer to young people who will soon have to steer their own professional development.
Manpower
With more than 60 years of experience, ManpowerGroup, a $22 billion company, describes itself as the world leader in innovative workforce solutions, creating and delivering high-impact solutions that help its clients achieve their business goals and improve their competitiveness.
These solutions cover the full range of talent-driven needs, from recruitment and assessment, training and development, and career management to outsourcing and workforce consulting.
The Junior Achievement foundation
The Junior Achievement foundation’s mission is to prepare and inspire young people to succeed in a global economy by fostering the entrepreneurial spirit that enables them to achieve their goals with responsibility and freedom.
Its vision is to teach the basics of how free private enterprise works and the socio-economic paradigms that drive the world, showing what success as an entrepreneur looks like.
Featured image: State Government Photographer, CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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