Towards employment: promoting, evaluating, and developing Monik NGO’s Urax career coaching project
Assefa, Hunderra (2016)
Assefa, Hunderra
Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
All rights reserved
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201601111208
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201601111208
Tiivistelmä
The aim of this commissioned thesis is to promote, evaluate, and develop Monik NGO’s Urax career coaching project. It is a project that seeks to assist young adults with an immigrant background in their job search. Monik NGO seeks to further the integration of immigrants into Finnish society. The main body of the thesis is comprised of three articles, published in the Six Degrees magazine.
Youth unemployment has been a great challenge within the entire EU ever since the latest global economic crisis. Young adults with an immigrant background face more challenges than their native counterparts. The Finnish government has introduced an intermediary labor market, which is a subsidized form of employment. In addition, the Finnish government grants employment policy support to various actors in order to improve the employment situation of unemployed jobseekers.
Monik NGO administers the Urax project for which it has been granted employment policy support. The target group of the project is immigrant young adults, or clients, between the ages of 18 and 29 living in Helsinki, Finland. The numerical target of the project in the years 2014 and 2015 has been to assist a minimum of 15 young adults to find employment annually.
The operational model of the Urax project has been designed based on the perceived challenges faced by young immigrant jobseekers. It consists of four steps: mapping, supporting, prepping, and post-employment services. The first article explains the operational model in addition to the topic background.
The second article evaluates the results of the project between August 2014 and July 2015. The project target was exceeded during this period. A total of 19 clients were assisted to employment. The second article also presents three client case studies as well as the project’s best practices.
The third article presents the corporate cooperation model. The corporate cooperation model offers a free-of-charge recruitment channel and other services to companies. The goal of the model is to create more direct paths to employment for Urax’s clients, and thus solve the problem of insufficient networks. A case study is used to describe how the model works in practice.
The thesis highlights the importance of the Urax career coaching project. It proves the effectiveness of the project’s operational model by showing its impressive results. It further presents best practices and real life case studies. There is a lack of academic literature about the type of career coaching offered in the Urax project and projects similar to it, due to which areas of further study are suggested in the conclusion of the thesis.
Youth unemployment has been a great challenge within the entire EU ever since the latest global economic crisis. Young adults with an immigrant background face more challenges than their native counterparts. The Finnish government has introduced an intermediary labor market, which is a subsidized form of employment. In addition, the Finnish government grants employment policy support to various actors in order to improve the employment situation of unemployed jobseekers.
Monik NGO administers the Urax project for which it has been granted employment policy support. The target group of the project is immigrant young adults, or clients, between the ages of 18 and 29 living in Helsinki, Finland. The numerical target of the project in the years 2014 and 2015 has been to assist a minimum of 15 young adults to find employment annually.
The operational model of the Urax project has been designed based on the perceived challenges faced by young immigrant jobseekers. It consists of four steps: mapping, supporting, prepping, and post-employment services. The first article explains the operational model in addition to the topic background.
The second article evaluates the results of the project between August 2014 and July 2015. The project target was exceeded during this period. A total of 19 clients were assisted to employment. The second article also presents three client case studies as well as the project’s best practices.
The third article presents the corporate cooperation model. The corporate cooperation model offers a free-of-charge recruitment channel and other services to companies. The goal of the model is to create more direct paths to employment for Urax’s clients, and thus solve the problem of insufficient networks. A case study is used to describe how the model works in practice.
The thesis highlights the importance of the Urax career coaching project. It proves the effectiveness of the project’s operational model by showing its impressive results. It further presents best practices and real life case studies. There is a lack of academic literature about the type of career coaching offered in the Urax project and projects similar to it, due to which areas of further study are suggested in the conclusion of the thesis.