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The innovative project for long-term unemployed young people aims at giving adolescents between 15 and 25 years a chance to get a job or access to education. It provides for a personal coach, who helps the adolescent with authorities, the new employer and the new job. The coaches are in permanent contact with the young people. They accompany them to job-interviews and acquire jobs from companies. The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and the Public Employment Service Austria are contractors and finance this project. The company AUFLEB (agency for unemployed people) is in charge of the organisation and implementation. The participants are selected by the Public Employment Service. The project starts with a “qualification unit” which takes eight weeks. During this time, the young people are trained in communication and social skills, in mathematical and other fundamental skills, so deficits can be compensated before their job applications and job interviews. Additionally, the adolescents will get to know a stable daily routine and social structure in order to ensure sustainable integration in the working environment. The second step is the placement. The coach acquires adequate job offers for the adolescent and makes the appointment for the interview. The coach accompanies the adolescent to the interview and takes – if it is necessary – part in the job interview. When the adolescent is accepted for the job, the coach accompanies him in the first two months. This measure should stabilize the employer-employee-relationship. The experience gathered in pilot projects shows that the first two months are critical and if an employee stays in his job for two months, then he will normally stay for a longer period. An adolescent is coached for a period of 9 months, in case of drop-out resumption is possible. The first qualification units started in December 2005, adolescents may continuously enter into the project until August 31, 2006. The project will be finished by July 31, 2007. For companies which employ adolescent participants of the project, the full range of financial support granted by the Public Employment Service is generally available. Interested companies should contact the consultants of their Regional Public Employment Service in order to clarify which financial support can be granted in the individual case and which conditions have to be fulfilled.
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