CareerKIT is a website that connects youth to high quality training opportunities in order to improve skills and employability. It offers training spots donated by companies, as well as its own training programs, to help 50,000 young people fulfill career goals over 5 years. CareerKIT aims to build trust between youth and employers by raising skills and lowering hiring costs. It will be implemented using volunteers and partnerships, with impact measured through follow-ups. The project recognizes the need to improve skills and match them to labor market demands in order to reduce youth unemployment in Romania.

1. CareerKIT
Team name: CareerKIT
Mentor: Florian Tutza

2. Youth unemployment, effects & apparent
paradoxes
According to EUROSTAT:
• Romanian general unemployment rate was 6,5% (EU: 107%);
• Romanian youth unemployment rate was 23,7% (EU: 21,4%) and
out of it 41,5% represents long term unemployment (EU: 29,3%);
• Romanian youth poverty and exclusion rate was 44,3% (EU: 29,8%)
and out of it 32,5% with severe material deprivation (EU: 10,6%).
Brain drain, especially among BA & MA students.
According to the MANPOWER Talent Shortage Survey 2012, in
Romania 45% of the employers have difficulties in filling jobs due to
the lack of available talent. The most common reasons are the lack
of technical competencies, the lack of experience and the lack of
employability skills.

3. Youth unemployment external
(macroeconomic) causes
• Romanian authorities’ lack of vision and action in
stimulating youth integration on the labor market;
• Misfit between the education curricula and the labor
market’s needs (lack of skills & practical experience);
• “Diploma factories” – corrupt educational system;
• Unfinanced public educational system;
• Global economic environment, with direct consequences
on: - jobs creation,
- recruitment policy (are preferred experienced
people),
- cut of the training budgets dedicated to fresh
graduates, due to the cutting costs policy.

4. Youth unemployment
personal causes
• Bad mentality about work and success;
• Bad national examples of success people –
uneducated politicians and “business men”;
• Lack of soft skills (especially enthusiasm /
motivation and professionalism);
• Low quality education;
• Lack of technical skills and practical experience;
• Lack of career planning and employability skills;
• Lack of networking and self marketing skills.

5. CareerKIT, the solution to
reduce youth unemployment
• The same level of skills will always generate the same
results.
• To solve this problem, the first thing we must do is to
build trust:
- youth’s trust in their own capacities, which will generate
enthusiasm and willingness to succeed, by offering them
the opportunity to develop their skills through high quality
trainings and educational projects;
- companies’ trust in youth potential by raising their
employability, which will generate also lower recruitment
and training costs for the employers.
• The Romanian fiscal legislation allows CareerKIT and
the training market’s slump enables it.

6. CareerKIT, the solution to
reduce youth unemployment
• CareerKIT is a website that puts together the
free spots donated by the premium training
companies to obtain fiscal deductions and the
high quality trainings & educational projects
offered by the employers and the NGOs and
offer them to youth on a competitive basis. It
enables youth to better integrate on the labor
market and the partners to consolidate their
brand, to raise their sales or to find donors and
to obtain fiscal deductions. It fills the gap
between unskilled youth and the growing need
for talents, reducing the corporations’ HR costs.

7. CareerKIT, the solution to
reduce youth unemployment
• CareerKIT will also offer our own training program,
based on intelligence competitive tools, which will
consist in 4 trainings about:
- setting SMART professional objectives, according to
the personal motivation, interests, skills and education;
- identifying career opportunities using “unconventional
tools”;
- writing CVs and other career documents which will
reflect also the employers’ interests and not only the
candidate’s wishes / objectives;
- preparing for competitive selection processes by
matching the candidate’s wishes and objectives with the
employers’ interests.

8. CareerKIT, the solution to
reduce youth unemployment
• Through the partnerships and our own trainings, at the
end of the 5th year we will enable 50.000 Romanian
young students and fresh graduates to fulfill their career
objectives by helping them to improve their skills and
employability.
• CareerKIT will be implemented using also volunteers
(who will be able to develop their skills).
• The impact will be measured in a qualitative manner, by
using follow-ups after 3 and 6 moths they had the
training.
• CareerKIT’s value was recognized by the European
Economic and Social Committee, through the European
Projects Awards competition (Best Idea award).

9. CareerKIT, the solution to
reduce youth unemployment
Higher sales for goods and services
High skilled employees
. Sales
Long term sales
Training NGOs / other
Employers
companies companies
In house trainings Sponsorships
Educational projects & Educational projects &
Free spots & advertising fees advertising fees
advertising fees
Fiscal deductions CareerKIT Funds
Trainings &
Yearly
State subscription fees
educational
Taxes projects EU
Institutions
Students and fresh graduates
Trainings Jobs & higher salaries
Public goods &
services
More & higher quality
goods and services
Society

10. CareerKIT, the solution to
reduce youth unemployment
• In order to implement the
project and to reach all its
objectives I will have to create
and manage a company (full
time job).
• Until the end of the 5th year we
will reach 50.000 unemployed
students and fresh graduates.
• Into the project’s
implementation will be involved
on the long run more than 50
young people (employees and
volunteers).