80% of Murcia students who have completed the Professional Qualification Program 1st City Council have acquired a full or partial certificate of professionalism.
Ballesta: "19 of them have achieved an employment contract with companies after making practices and now three other youths are in the process of formalizing yours."
Throughout the course they were given eight professional workshops to facilitate its first foray into the labor market and training in languages ​​and mathematics, so they can access higher education.
The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, Councillor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, and the general director of the Regional Employment Service and Training (SEF), Alejandro Zamora, made today presented the diplomas Program 1st Vocational Training Youth, which offered free the city of Murcia, a course that has allowed 80% of students who have done have purchased a full or partial professionalism certificate and that has led to the first foray into the labor market most of them.
Specifically, this program 1st Qualification "is twofold: firstly, to motivate those young Murcia between 16 and 20 who had abandoned their studies, to continue forming and, on the other hand, offer a training itinerary allowing access to employment of their professional sector, "said José Ballesta, who added that" in many cases, are young people who were unmotivated and a risk of exclusion, so the tutorial work of teachers has been key to success and achieve a change in habits and expectations. "
Of the 114 young people who have accesido workshops, nearly 80% have obtained the certificate of full or partial professionalism in the following eight specialties: auxiliary assembly operations Electrotechnical Installations and Telecommunications in Buildings, Auxiliary Services Estheticians, Auxiliary Services Hairdressing, Operations Plumbing and Heating Air Conditioning Domestic, Trade Related Activities, Basic Operations Flats in Accommodation, Auxiliary Machinery Manufacturing Operations and Maintenance Operations Auxiliary vehicle body.
Workshops have been held since October 2015 to this June, at the Center for Training and Employment Initiatives Murcia (next to Victor Villegas) and the Centre for Training and Employment Initiatives El Palmar.
The training received by students is officially recognized and approved by the SEF and is scheduled in September, taught this program offered by the Municipal Employment Service again.
19 contracts awarded and three pending
In addition, young people have completed training practices (between 40 and 120 hours) in various companies and businesses of specialty, which meant for many of them their first approach to the labor market.
"In fact, 19 of them have obtained an employment contract with these companies after making practices and now three other youths are in the process of formalizing his" forward the mayor, adding that "others are part of the bag work companies which have practices and will have them when cirscunstancias so require ".
This first edition of Program 1st Professional Qualification is a continuation of the work during the last 20 years, the City of Murcia has been carried out by editing various programs (Social Guarantee Professional Initiation and Initial Vocational Training (PCPI ), a compensatory action of socio-educational and employment disparities in youth in the municipality of Murcia.
The recipients of these courses may apply for participation in themselves be proposed at the request of the IES counselors and organizations working with these groups of young people, or be referred by Social Services.
The workshops are also part of the resources offered within the Youth Guarantee program, funded by the European Union.
Extra training in languages ​​and mathematics
Regardless of the workshops, the program has included specific training in languages ​​and mathematics to young people. "This knowledge allows them to present the evidence called by the SEF to achieve Professional Certificates levels 2 and 3, and are the door access for young people who wish to return to the ESO or access the Bachelor, "said Ballesta.
1st Professional Certification is the first step for the employment of young people who have not completed their studies at the ESO and who want to improve their basic training, strengthening their motivation and personal development.
However, expanding and continuing training is also a priority.
"It is very important motivational work that allows many of them resume their studies, as they are very young boys and girls who, if they propose, may have ahead a successful academic and professional future," the mayor racalcó.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia