CAREER BRIDGE project

From Vietnam:Sai_Gon360 Team Hong Pham Yen Tran

• Background: Jobs remain scared; the unemployment rate continually climbs up. It is estimated that around 1.000.000 people will become unemployed in 2013.

• Objectives: In short term the project accounts on those recent college graduates still looking for jobs. This will mean, in long term, rapid productivity growth and high overall economic growth.

• Stakeholders: To commit these objectives, there are involvements of three stakeholders.

projectINTRODUCTION

projectANAYLYSIS

• Solution: Career Bridge (CB) is built to match demands of firms and students precisely with efficient support from schools

• Successful similar solutions: career service centres, like Wake Forest College, Pennsylvania State University, North Carolina University

CB FirmsStud-ents

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4.2 Hold soft skill classes

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2. Provide company’s profile, requirements, environment,...

3. Give out surveys, tests,...

4. Provide demand, knowledge/ skill results

5. Provide report about demand and quality of labour market and recommend applicants

* Step 5.1 and 5.2 happen correspondingly with step 4.1 and 4.2

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• Specific plan: The project will be carried out in 4 phases, including 8 activities.

Phase 4: Long termPhase 3: Project model

Phase 1 (Apr-May,13): Building brandPhase 2 (May-Jun,13): Contacting partners

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• Reality check: A few changes in scope, which will focus more on private, small scale schools and firms, whereas resources are still committed and the project can finish on time.

projectCONCLUSIONS

•Target audience: students (short term), schools & firms (long term);•Public unemployment information; make quizzes, polls;•53 likes, 396 people seeing our popular post.•https://www.facebook.com/pages/Career-Bridge/152624918239325

FANPAGE

•Joined career fair at Foreign Trade University and International University;•Reached 500 students to advertise for Career Bridge Project;•Contacted with 10 firms (Toyota, P&G, Unilever, Nielsen,...).

Results show that:•Students are in need of services supplied by Career Bridge;•Soft skills students are lack of => suggest soft skill classes correspondingly.

SURVEYS

• Achievements:

• Next steps: Phase 2, contact with schools and firms to persuade them to join the project.

CAREER EVENTS

projectCONCLUSIONS

Amount

Time Over 1 year

Money 26550 USD

Technology A domain, a host computer

Partners 5 firms and 5 experts

Volunteers 10 people

Future investments

CB

Volunteers

Money

Good will

Economic recession

Barriers/ Limits