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Offer alternatives to young Murcia, for whatever reason, they leave formal education is a task for which the city of Murcia is sparing no resources through various training programs and employment.
The Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, today presided over the ceremony of accreditation for the 135 young people who have found an alternative to training over the past year thanks to -2007/2008- Initiation Program for Employment .
All of them have obtained the qualification of operators and assistants in eleven trades: painter decorator, plumber, refrigeration and air conditioning operator of low-voltage electrical installations, welding, bodywork and aluminum steel construction.
They have also completed training as a hairdresser's assistant, assistant vehicle repair, cooking or auxiliary dependent on trade.
The closing ceremony of the course has also had the assistance of Councilwoman Maria Dolores Sánchez, and representatives of 88 companies collaborating with the program and the teaching staff and technical.
The Induction Programme for Employment enables young people between 16 and 20 years receive the necessary theoretical training in a trade and, in many cases, access to a first job.
In other cases, they may choose to continue their studies they left behind, especially in intermediate vocational training.
Theory and Practice
The course includes training in stage craft and other unpaid labor practices in the workplace.
88 companies in the municipality have collaborated this year in recruiting students, providing not only basic vocational training, but also a first work experience.
As a result of this course, 84%% of youth who completed -113 students were contracted by private companies, while the remaining -16% - it has been for the city of Murcia.
Ended contracts, 49% will renew another 6 months.
Of these, 71% do so in the same company that made labor practices and 14% in other companies.
On the other hand, 26% of students have opted to continue their studies.
Almost 12,000 students
Murcia City Council has been conducting these programs since 1992.
In these 16 years have taught over 110 professional profiles of 1,500 students, who have found an alternative in this course after leaving the education system.
Over 300 companies have collaborated in the recruitment of students in the program since its inception.
The course lasts one year and 1,100 hours of training divided into 6 months, the first training in the selected profile and the second alternating with work in a productive position in the occupational field in which they are forming.
In the first phase, initial training is offered in selected professional profile as well as core content in mathematics, language and socio, training and career counseling, and that an important action tutorial designed to work on the difficulties that students encounter in meeting the objectives of education and labor insertion.
It is the second phase in the training alternating with work in a productive position in the occupational field in which students are forming.
Students are hired through a contract for training for companies working in the program and, in some cases, by the City Council, with more than 85% of actual work.
Training time in these contracts can not be less than 15% of maximum working hours and salary ranges between 500 and 700 € monthly.
These contracts provide students their first work experience while they are a learning opportunity in a real working context.
For companies such contracts are also very advantageous as they allow to train apprentices with quality and safety criteria desired.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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