1. (on a Nutshell)

2. Problem:
30% of our most educated generation ever is
unemployed and feeling absolutely
disempowered to engage with their Future and
Career.
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3. Hypotheses:
Could we increase the employability
of 25 unemployed young graduates
by developing their soft skills?
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5. Prototyped Solution:
A 3 month hands on program that fosters the
development of soft skills and helps young
unemployed graduates find their passion.
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7. Results:
After the first 3 months of training all of our
participants were working at a company (2 of
them were bootstrapping their own project)
6 months after Skills Lab 64% of our
participants maintained a job.
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9. Why did it work?
So far we’ve been analyzing Skills Lab success factors.
We believe that Skills Lab brought an unique
combination made of:
- individual counseling
- a learning community
- a training program designed for the real life
- a strong ecosystem of companies and professionals
- a deeply passionate and committed team
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10. Next Steps:
• Validate the format through a second edition
• Prepare a model to national and international
replication
• Design an approach to go online
• Publish Proprietary content
• Further test the Skills Lab soft skills learning
approach
• Test the development of Job Centered Ecosystem
(for cities) in other city than Braga
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12. How can you help?
Skills Lab is in need to secure some funding to enable our vision
and goals. We’re currently looking to broaden our pool of amazing
sponsors. I would be very glad to talk about this with you, just
email me to alexandre@skillslab.me
We’re also always interested to know your recruiting needs or
your feedback and we welcome any tip or suggestion.
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13. ORGANIZAÇÃO:
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Special Thanks to:
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14. Contacts: Alexandre Mendes
alexandre@skillslab.me
+351 936 171 033
skype: alexsampaiomendes
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15. ORGANIZAÇÃO:
SKILLS LAB
Principal Mecenas: Outros Mecenas:
Parceiro para a qualificação:
Apoios: