Design your career workshop tef2013

DESIGN YOUR CAREER WORKSHOP

Warsaw, TEF2013

Unemployment in Poland

Unemployed registered in labor offices at the end of August 2013 constituted 13.0% of the working population (in July of 2013 - 13.1%, in August 2012, 12.4%). The highest unemployment rate still remained in the Warmia and Mazury (20.2%), the lowest unemployment rate in the region: Greater Poland (9.5%), Mazowieckie and Silesia (at 11.1%).

Young people starting career Every third young person in Poland is

unemployed. The largest group of the unemployed were people between 25 and 34 years of age (29%). Most of the unemployed have higher education (25,5%).

In Poland there are 445 public and private universities. Only 86 schools, mostly state-owned, is a type of academic institutions that have at least two powers confer doctoral degrees.

Workshop

During one week long workshop, the multidisciplinary team used the design thinking method to create prototype showing new, creative ways on how to make a living.

How can help people to start making a living?

QUESTIONS:

What kind of job do you expect? What type of education, qualifications do you need to get it?

Why are you unemployed? Have you tried to find a job and what are your

achievements in that field? What do the young unemployed, if they don’t have a job?

What is your experience in all kinds of (eg volunteering, local school / university, hobbies, etc..)?What is your dream job?

Interviews

young people from NGOs who have a lot of work, but that did not earn

Young people who have found work without problem

Career Services

Grouping topics

Choosing cases

1. How to change hobby

into profitable activity?

3. How to learn what one’s want to do in life?

2. How to encourage young people to start their own business?

4. How to provide young people with skill useful in professional

life?

Ideas

Developing program of studies by creating courses on how make business plan and run

a company

Simplification of procedures related to

starting one’s own business

Creating co-working spaces, where

young people can examine their

business ideas and present them to

eventual partners

Enabling employers to have impact on

program of studies

Prototype

Producing a series of reality show broadcasted in internet introducing young people to

market situation and explaining procedures