This survey found that unemployment is the top concern for Albanian youth, especially those aged 17-22 living in rural areas. To address this, a one-year initiative is proposed focusing on entrepreneurship training, career consultancy, and professional education. The goals are to train and consult hundreds of youth, support dozens in starting businesses, and promote professional education opportunities to better align skills with available jobs. Long-term, the project aims to establish career centers and increase vocational programs through partnerships with educational and business stakeholders to create sustainable employment solutions for Albanian youth.

2. On a scale 0 to 10 , young people have
70
estimated that unemployment is the most
60 important concern , respectively 9.5. Youth
50 have the tendency to consider job
40 65 opportunities as the solution of all their
30
35
problems. Despite their political beliefs , their
20
common denominator is the fact that
10
government investment should be directed
0
Employed Unemployed toward the job creation.
Youth Employment among living areas Youth Employment among ages
Youth Employment among genders
11%
30%
40% 17-19
Female Rual
25% 20-22
Males Urban
60% 23-25
70% 64%
*This survey is done by our team during the period
January-February 2013, with 100 young people
currently living in Albania and villages nearby.

3. Economic Conditions- Albania Discouraged employees- Society culture is putting lots of
is relatively a developing pressure on youth to have a university degree, and after
receiving several masters and PhD’s, this young people have
country in terms of macro huge expectations and perceive themselves as “overqualified”.
economy and on the other Thus, they are more willing to remain unemployed rather then
hand it has the second to accept a job that does not fulfill their. On the other
youngest population in Europe part, they do not believe to find a job through meritocratic
, with and average of 30 years. values.

4. Laziness- Based on the survey hard-working is not
among main values of Albanian youth. The lack of Deficiency in job finding- Young
ambition and the unemployed peer pressure makes people do not have a clear
them to rely on more on family financial support. career plan thus they do not
know how to search and find a
job. Believing that everything
depends on political affiliation.
They lack entrepreneurial spirit
indicating that their preferred job
is in the public administration.
Migration- Despite small cities and rural
areas do provide job opportunities people
have the tendency to move toward urban
areas. Areas with large student populations
are having the unemployment rate of their
local employees massively underestimated

5. Initiative ( Main
Actions
drivers)
Training about entrepreneur skills
1 Job Innovators Training on financing initiatives
Provide start-up legal assistance
Organize Career Consultancy Days
Organize Youth & Business Forums
2 Career Programs Make internships obligatory
Open career offices at high-schools and universities
Promote the advantages of professional education
Professional Open Professional Education Institutes
3
Education
Trainings/Conferences on benefits of job division and
job specialization

6. Based on the survey the most effected unemployed target group are young people between 17-22
years old. Therefore our:
Professional Education
Job innovation program Career consultancy orientation will focus on
will focus on recently programs will focus on high school students
graduates, who can senior high school , who will have greater
become job creators students and recently chances to find a job
rather than job seekers. graduated through job division and
job specialization.

7. • Problem identification and solution proposed
• Project planning,timeline and goals
February- • İdentification of target group and specific needs
July 2013
• Recruitment of Supporting Team
July- • Seeting partnerships
September • Logistic prepartion for the upcoming events
2013
Organization team will
• Organizing enterpreneurship trainings once every two months be expanded up to 15
September • Organing career consultancy days once every two months
2013- persons. Their
August 2014 voluntarily contribution
will consist in a part-
time job. ( 4 hours per
November • Organizing first and second Youth & Business Forum day)
2014/April
2014
• Preparation of final report
• Results analize
• Presentation to stakeholder
August 2014
• Lobbying for project continuation to achive long-term goals

8. Short- Term (1 year)
KPIs Goal
6
1 # of Entrepreneurship Trainings
2
2 # of Youth & Business Forums Since our solution consists of
job innovation programs ,
6
3 # of Career Consultancy Days career consultancy and
professional education, our
300 first year will focus just on
4 # of youth people trained
trainings, which will be
300 organized in collaboration with
5 # of participants in Y&B Forum
AIESEC (international youth
6 # of Business/NGO-s/Institution Partners 15 organization focused on
providing a platform for youth
leadership development) and
7 # of youth people career consulted 200 employed young people, who
will share their successful case
8 # of youth people starting own business 15 stories of career path.
9 # of youth people employed by our partners 30
# of youth people following a professional
10 education 50

9. Long- Term (5 year)
KPIs Goal
50
1 # of Career Offices
# of Professional Education Institutes ( public and 20
2 private)
30%
3 % of SME increased
After analyzing and achieving first year
goals , based on experience and evidences
we will lob for “Activate Employment” This initiative will impact the society and
initiative to become a long term project youth development only through the
supported by Ministry of Education, both partnership of all stakeholders.
private and public universities and
different businesses and NGO’s.

10. This project expectations consists of:
-Changing people mentality about professional education. Not everybody
needs a university degree to be successful
-Increasing entrepreneurial spirit and skills , enhancing creativity and
willingness to innovate.
The biggest risk in life , is to risk nothing. Thus the solution should be
oriented toward private investments and not government spending.
-Enabling people to asses their own skills and abilities . Making them able to
prepare and follow a realistic career plan.