(Telestock) – More than 4,500 young people have attended free training courses offered by Giovani e Lavoro since 2019the program of Intesa Sanpaolo for unemployed young people between 18 and 29 years old looking for opportunities and wanting to get involved, created with the Generation Italy Foundation, a non-profit initiative created by McKinsey & Company. 2,400 companies were involved and thus had the opportunity to organize interviews with young people trained, free of charge, in the chosen activities.
The hiring rate for classes with completed placement activities is higher at 80% (data as of June 30) In the next few months, 15 new training classes will start throughout Italy for a total of more than 300 free places.
In Italy this has been happening for years what is commonly called “theThe paradox of youth unemployment”, which sees on one hand approximately 1 million unemployed young people and on the other 1.14 million job positions, including entry level, available and considered by companies as difficult to fill (according to Istat and Unioncamere data, 2022).
The program Giovani e Lavoro aims to match supply and demand for work in the most sought-after sectors that is, Hi-Tech (Java, Salesforce, Cyber Security and Data Engineer), Precision Mechanical Industry (CNC), Sales, Hotel and Catering: young people are offered free training aimed at developing technical, attitudinal and behavioral skills (soft skills); companies are guaranteed a pool of trained people to meet their requests.
The courses last between 3 and 14 weeks. depending on the training profile, they are held 90% remotely and 10% with laboratory activities, with 2 teachers always present in the classroom and a mentor who follows the young people from the beginning of the courses until the end of the placement. To be able to access the courses, no previous skills or particular qualifications are required, but only passing an online test and a motivational interview.
Young people and work has initially started in the areas with the highest presence of youth unemployment and open positions such as Naples, Rome, Milan and then gradually extend across the national territory to involve 15 regions. Intesa Sanpaolo, through its commercial divisions, involves client companies as potential employers of students; it also provides the team of internal trainers of the Impact Learning structure and delivers most of the soft skills modules.
The program – explains the note – is fully part of Intesa Sanpaolo’s ESG commitment to the growth of the country, a commitment that is expressed with great attention to young people, the right to education, training and access to the world of work.