Getting ready to apply for your fi rst job with Europass!

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Getting ready to apply for your fi rst job with Europass!
By Alexandra Enzi | NEC Austria. The Austrian NEC has been off ering workshops on how to get ready to apply for your fi rst job for 15 – 18-year-olds at schools and youth centres for the last two years. The workshops consist of an introduction to the Europass documents focusing on the Europass CV and how best to document your skills and qualifi cations, eff ectively and clearly. For learners in vocational schools, the Certifi cate Supplement is also presented as a valuable tool to make sure that future employers are aware of the specifi c skills and competencies of the young school leavers. This is followed by getting the young people actively involved in a role play simulating realistically diff erent job interview situations. In selected sessions, this part of the workshop is held in English featuring a native speaker of English – thus combining valuable information on what to be aware of in job interviews with language training at the same time.
The trainings have been such a big success with the students, teachers and counsellors involved that NEC Austria is planning to produce short video clips in 2014 featuring best parts of the training, and make them available to be used by teachers and trainers throughout the country.