This document proposes creating a European community called "I'm young and employed" to help address youth unemployment. The community would guide young unemployed people through the entire process of finding a job, including helping them discover their skills and abilities, providing career guidance and advice from HR professionals, and sharing success stories and resources. It would have a website and Facebook page where people could access personality/skills tests, job descriptions, case studies, and interact with others. The goal is to help young graduates and job seekers determine the right career path for them and learn how to market themselves effectively to employers. The community aims to reach out to universities, public spaces, and through social media to spread the word.

1. I’m young and
employed
PROJECT IDEA FOR EUROPE NEEDS YOU 4 JOB-CREATION

2.  Sabina Botez
 Age 23, Romania
 Master’s student
 Employed looking for
a new job
 Bogdan Roman
 Age 24, Romania
 Master’s student
 Unemployed looking for
a job
Who are we?

3. Youth unemployment.
How did it happen?
 “ I have no experience”
 There are a lot of students that graduate bachelor/ masters studies
and have no experience whatsoever ( no volunteering either)
 “ I want a job that will bring a lot of money”
 There are a lot of young students that want easy money, they want
to work as little as possible
 “I don’t know how “to sell myself” at an interview”
 They lack soft skills, presentation skills, they can’t convince the
interviewer that they are the best for that job

4. Youth unemployment.
How that happened?
 “I don’t know what I’m good at”
 A lot of graduates have this statement when they are asked what
do you want to do from now on?
Why?
 They didn’t chose the right University in the first place
 the courses at the Universities didn’t helped them to discover and
improve their abilities and skills
 The organizations that offer different opportunities don’t cover the
entire range of youth unemployed
 They don’t have a model, a person that can advise them in the key
stages of the process of getting a job

5. Solution.
“I’m young and employed”
Community
 Creating an European Community that will help youth that aren’t
employed , that will guide them in the whole process
How it works?
1. Creating the website for the community and the Facebook Page
2. Creating a community that will gather enthusiastic and
determined people from different countries that are interested in
increasing the youth employment rate (Skopje, Macedonia, June
2014)
3. Promoting the community
4. Getting a lot of emails from young people that were helped
by this community 

6. “I’m young and employed”
Community
 Our main objective is that young students/ unemployed should
figure out what they are good at, in what domain they can excel
and where they have to make improvements so that they begin
their right career path.
 Personality tests, aptitude tests, soft skills tests that will show the
potential of the candidate and the areas that they have to improve
and most importantly how they can improve it
 This community will generate ideas that will help and motivate
young unemployed people
 This community will share stories, advice, will guide the young
unemployed
 Also we want to create a mobile app for this community where
people can interact easily and can gather useful, relevant
information.

7. “I’m young and employed”
Website and Facebook Page
 Testimonials from people that had a rough time getting their first job
or just getting employed , describing what were the steps that they
followed and got them the job
 Advice from the HR from the companies
 Exact job descriptions for a type of job in a wide rage of domains
 This website will be updated in real time by who has relevant
experience, advice, content ( an wikipedia for the young
unemployed )
 Study cases from different companies that will show in what
department that person is suitable
 New directions of development of the economy of that country,
what kind of employees does the country need
 Relevant resources, organized for young unemployed that are in
different stages of the employment process

8. How the young unemployed will be
reached?
 Posters in all the Universities
 Posters at the subway
 Posters in the areas that student used to pass
 Facebook ads - they are very cheap and the news will travel fast in
the social media network
 contacting bloggers and exposing to them this idea

9. Thank you!