Needs Analysis report part1 - Interviews with youth

1. Needs Analysis report part1 - Interviews with youth Summary findings from each partner

2. Age and gender of respondents 29 respondents Note: All Spanish respondents were men (IT students)

3. Education and studies 2 unemployed, the others are students at secondary or university level

4. Job-orientation possibilities AS THE YOUTH WORKERS SEE IT: • employment centers • Schools • Personal Advisors in schools and college • Employment centers • job entrepreneur days • trainings • job fairs, career fairs (events organised by local firms an Employment Agency) • Traineeships/Apprenticeship • Full-time and part-time student jobs • youth information centers • volunteering • local development agencies • further education and higher education institutions AS THE YOUNG PEOPLE SEE IT: Events, exhibitions organized by Universities, Events by local unemployment offices or local fairs (career fairs, job fairs ) Combined study / work experiences in different companies (“dual” system) Teachers/school advisors Informal connections Apprenticeships Websites (What Career, What Uni)

5. AS THE YOUTH WORKERS SEE IT: • there are possibilities • Open days at private companies • Take over days • part time job opportunities (tourism and catering mostly) • there is no chance for continuity, to get a job on the workplace where Take over days took place • care services • work experience in school and college • part-time jobs in beauty shops • traineeships as they offer work placements as part of the course • Apprenticeship • Internships • Work trials • volunteer and work for the many charity shops in the area Possibilities for experiencing the practical side of jobs AS THE YOUNG PEOPLE SEE IT there are not many possibilities voluntary work, to get in direct contact with the employer practice lessons at school/college, university dual vocational training Apprenticeships part-time work experience Base youth centre Indeed.com

6. Future plans

7. Workfield where the interviewee would like to work

8. Most needed soft skills

9. The interviewee's weaknesses from the above soft skills

10. Preferred soft skills development forms and methods

11. Personal experience in initiatives similar to Takeover Days 24: NO 5: YES, Combined study/work experience, volunteering

12. If the trainee would like to take part in the training… YES: 24 NO: 5

13. Encouraging factors "To travel abroad" employment possibilities at work to gain experience "To try a new experience outside my country" "Having an experience in a workplace" look amazing on my CV "Having an actual idea of what working means" To practice English language and meeting new people (mentioned more than once) To gain new skills and qualities

14. Discouraging factors Other participants languages Working in an area I do not like English language Not understanding the tasks well because of the language Time of trip may clash with my exams. Distance to the camp location Long hours Location accessibility Not getting to travel and work long hours Too much writing

15. Expected results/benefits To have an intercultural experience making international friends in a real workplace. To try a new experience outside my country Having an actual idea of what working means To practice English language and meeting new people" Employment possibilities at the company A deeper understanding of people I may work with in the future Good experience, gaining new knowledge and being able to network with different people. Once in a lifetime experience and contacts Gain Experience Better skills and a better CV Visit a different country

16. ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP plans To inform and aware students about what is an active citizenship, encouraging them to participate in activities that contribute to the society. An active citizen should contribute to the community in which he lives, be informed about current problems and share his knowledge with others by engaging for example in the social or environmental field. I would like to be a volunteer in the near future, voluntary work Worked with local charities, volunteered in Kenya and attend my local youth club. I have worked as a career and have tutored children in my area. I attend networking events and seminars. Volunteering and attending my local youth club Attend local youth club and help others Help at the base youth club

17. Needs Analysis report part 2Interviews with Youth workers • Interviewed totally 13 person • With work experience in the following fields: • social services • tourism • Soft skills • Employer engagement officer ? • careers Guidance • educator • school From 13 person, 12 would like to take part in the programme.

18. Experience in Takeover Day program • YW from ES and IT don’t have any experience • RO: Relay’s Day, organised by Terre de Homme Foundation, RO • UK: trough Wandsworth, “at Lifelong learning we had a young person who spent the day with us, working with different staff members”.

19. Young People will get out …. • Improved language skills • Better awareness of transnationality concept • Practical, unique experience • Communication skills • Better insight on how a department is run • Working in a multicultural environment • Confidence • Social skills • Working as a part of the team • Leadership skills • Problem solving • Creativity

20. Any barriers which can prevent them taking part • If the datas of the Takeover days are overlaps with the exam period • Lack of interest • Lack of motivation • Lack of confidence • Previous bad experience • Fear of change • Emotional and/or menthal barriers • Bad influence of their friends • Poor communication skills

21. Ideas regarding active citizenship • Social media activities about social issues • Environmental education activities • Volunteering • Charity work • Education to employments for gang members and other vulnerable groups of YP • Caring about the community • Keeping the environment green • Take part in political life • Helping others

22. How YP participation in the programme could improve their education and job prospects? • Will acquire useful skills, knowledge about the sector they want to work in the future • Improve confidence • Boost their CV • Responsibility • On-the-job learning experience • Experience to work a full day (8 hours) • Experience that in a workplace are rules, which needs to be respected • Teamwork • Hope and motivation to develop a meaningful career

23. Suggestions made to the project team UK: • Look at other industries such as fashion, marketing and technology, food production and gaming. • Workshops empowering YP to stay out of gangs, crime and drugs. • Mentoring for YP. • Staff should be given the opportunity.

24. Needs Analysis report part 3INTERVIEWS WITH POTENTIAL HOST ORGANIZATION • Interviewed totally 8 organizations, 2/each country • With employees from 3 to 10 • Domain: - public administration - technical, economical office - private (flowery, showroom of architecture and design, trades) - voluntary - co-working space • From the 8 organizations, 7 would like to take part in the programme.

25. Opinion about Takeover Days • Take Over Days are a good experience for students to learn about the operations in a company and to decide which sector they would like to work. (ES) • It is a very good idea, it assures possibility for youth to experience the working field where they would like to have their job. (RO) • It also makes us look at our own work more critically and consider if there is something more we could do to engage young people and change our offer. We get young people’s view on the work we do. Negative – it is not easy to find activities that the young people could take over. Staff roles are very varied and we struggle to find parts of the decision maker’s work that YP could do, or even pretend to do. So tends to be more contributing and commenting on work rather than ‘taking over’. (UK) • Take Over is a good opportunity both for the host organization and for the young people who will take part in the working day because there is an exchange of ideas and skills. (IT)

26. Experience before … • Combined study/work experiences. (ES, IT) • We, receive very often group of students and we are presenting to them our working process. (RO) • Help with careers guidance, CV writing, employability skills, work experience and apprenticeships. We also work with young people in care or who have additional needs. Special projects, such as Pan Out, to promote specific industries and generate interest in what they offer. (UK)

27. Services or aspects of your work which be suitable for a Takeover Day • ES: planning, programming, actions designed to dynamize and promote the growth of economic activity of the city • RO: pottery, painting, PR, florist, flower arranger • UK: data analysis, programming, coding (depending on the experience of YP) • IT: co-working, social network management, communication, event organization, client reception (selling), workshop

28. Barriers …to take part in the program • Staff availability • Lack of staff time • Finding roles that is not to technical for them (YP) • If the Takover Days data is overlaps with a period when we are very busy.

29. The organisation will get out of taking part in Takeover Day • To improve the quality of our services based on the feedback, suggestions made by YP • To position ourselves in the market as a company which receives students. • To get new employees • Opportunity to meet bright YP and hear what they think of our work • To get an insight into the YP’s world and thinking • Increase visibility on local and European level • Contribution of the new generations in the field of social media and IT

30. THANK YOU!