Benefits...

In my post I would like to introduce you to what the youth exchange from the Erasmus+ programme is. 

I want to tell you about my experience on the trip to Costinesti on the jobs challenge programme.

During this trip I had the opportunity to meet people from different countries. I made many friends and got to know the culture of other countries.

Besides the obvious benefits such as meeting people, parties, visiting new places, I learned many useful things related to getting my dream job in the future.

The whole programme was funded by the European Union. I recommend everyone to go on such a programme, especially Initiative Sociale, it gives the opportunity to meet new countries and people completely for free

https://www.facebook.com/InitiativeSocialeAssociation

by Pawel [PL]

Thanks to...

Hey,

I am writing to you because I would like to tell you about a project I was able to participate in April 1 to 11 in costinesti, Romania.

The project consisted in showing young people how to overcome their own limitations, develop their skills, acquire a different approach to the obstacles they encounter in the process of activation on the labor market. 

Thanks to this project I learned how to prepare a CV and cover letter, how to apply for a job or how to participate in an interview. The classes were held daily and were very useful.

 

Thanks to this trip I met many wonderful people from equal countries. We spent a lot of time together. It is also important that the project was entirely paid for by the European Union. We lived in a beautiful hotel and we could taste Romanian dishes. 

The whole project was organized by "Initiative Sociale". I'm sending you the link to their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/InitiativeSocialeAssociation

I hope that next time we will go together on such a project.

Best Regards,

Kamil Oleksiak [PL]

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by Cami [RO]

I can talk a lot about my adventure there...

Hello everyone,

I hope this email finds you well. I am writing this email since I want to share with you some moments of my experience in Romania where I was a participant at Erasmus+ youth exchange project. 

Let us start with some basic information about the project. It took place, as I said, in Romania and more precisely in Costinesti which is a summer resort there. I spent some time there from 1stto 11th of April and the topic was ‘Jobs Challenge’. I decided to take part in this project because I found its topic really useful for me and my future career path. 

I am glad that I had this opportunity – the opportunity to be surrounded by amazing people from four other countries – Romania, Turkey, Poland, and Italy, learning how to write my CV and cover letters in the best way possible. I even created a LinkedIn account and at first, I thought that I would not use it but now I check it as often as my Instagram account. 

I really enjoyed taking part in all our activities organised by our lovely facilitator, Ioana, who really did her best to engage us with them. I can divide our sessions into three groups – building a team, enhancing our competences in finding a perfect job for us and boosting our creativity. Our job challenge finished with a job interview simulation game, and it was more serious than I expected. On the last day, the one before departure, we had to film a short video showing some of the issues in terms of finding a job. All groups did their best and we all deserved to win an award at our Oscar night. We even went to Constanta and had some free time there. Me and my group decided to go on a dolphin show and it was amazing. 

One more thing should be mentioned since it made my experience there even more unforgettable. What I mean are our cultural evenings. During the cultural evenings we had the chance to explore other cultures and at the end of the day find that we are not that different, and all nations should stay united.

I can talk a lot about my adventure there but what I really want to share now is a piece of advice. All of you should try this type of experience at least once. You should go and check all the opportunities that the EU offers to you via Erasmus+ programme. There are a lot of options, and I am sure that all of you will find the perfect one for you.

Enjoy being an active EU citizen.

Best regards,

Viktoria [BG]

Everybody had time to express themselves

Hello,

I am writing to you because I would like to tell you about a project I attended from April 1 to 11 în Costinești, Romania . The project was aimed at young people and the theme was #Jobchallange. This means that during the activities we talked about how to improve our situation on the labour market, we developed a CV, a motivation letter and we exchanged insights from our countries about the labour market situation among young people. The classes were conducted in a very nice and useful way for me. Everybody had time to express themselves.

Apart from the obvious benefits I got from the classes, I met a lot of wonderful people from 5 different countries. We had a lot of time to get to know each other and after these eleven days I feel like I have made new friends.

I think it is very important to say that the project was fully paid for by the European Union. This means that travel costs, hotel and meals were not my responsibility. We stayed in a beautiful and clean hotel and the food was delicious.

The whole project was organised by "Initiative Sociale". They made every effort to ensure that I now remember this project with great pleasure. I strongly encourage you to go on such a project, especially with Initiative Sociale.

I am sending you the link to the facebook of this organisation. They post information there about upcoming projects and you're bound to find me in lots of funny pictures, so it's all the more worth having a look there.

https://www.facebook.com/InitiativeSocialeAssociation

I hope that I have encouraged you to go and that one day we will go together on a project.

Best regards, 

Grzegorz Krajewski [PL]

I had the pleasure and amazing opportunity

I had the pleasure and amazing opportunity to attend the youth exchange held in Costinești, concerned with the very actual topic of youth unemployment at national and European level. Through the well thought process and activities we joined teams and started to work and immerse deeper into the methodologies and preparations regarding jobs.

This covered topics like: how to search for jobs, expectations, the privilege to choose your job, interview documents, interview attendance, how to successfully apply and get a job in the digital era (LinkedIn), knowing your rights and managing uncomfortable or unfair situations at the workplace. The informal educational methods involved a natural learning dynamic based on mutual help, curiosity and teamwork that let us build deeper connections, cooperation and cohesive spirit that developed our creativity and problem solving abilities. The guidance of the coordinators when stumbling upon problems was very helpful and polished our tasks to the little details.

We even had a trip to Constanta that had us discover a new intriguing place, full of cultural heritage and further helped us understand the job challenges people face as we asked people around in order to find more about the job market and the issues encountered in searching for a job.

My favourite task of the project was the one when we were consigned the dare of creating a short clip that aimed to display the job challenges youngsters and people face, such as searching for the wanted positions, attending interviews and all about the process of applying for a job. Demanding, still fun as we worked in teams, provoking our creativity and acting skills, I loved this one especially as it challenged us to summarize all the information we gathered throughout the entire project and present it in an ingenious witty way for the public, using also our digital video crafting skills.

Moreover, the cultural nights that took place every night strengthened our group’s bond and made us aware of the beauty of the other cultures, as well as they provided us with plenty of interesting facts about countries’ people, values and history. I learned a lot about Poland, Italy, Bulgaria and Turkey and became mindful of how unhealthy and far from the truth stereotypes are. People are friendly, kind and helpful no matter where they come from if you are open to see it. I enjoyed learning Lithuanian and Bulgarian dances, it was a lot of fun, polish tongue twisters “Iola loyalna, Iola neloyalna”, tasting Turkish delicious food, like Pişmaniye and enjoying the energetic and passionate spirit of the Italians.

I’m grateful I got to meet and get to know all the people involved in this project! Each and every one of the participants was so kind, friendly, sweet, helpful, smart and each had their own special thing, skill, energy and experiences that they shared with everyone.

It was a true honour to meet these incredible people, spend productive and educative time in a manner that felt effortless and develop my entrepreneurial, digital, language, personal, social and learning to learn competences.

I had an amazing time and learned so many things! If you want to make friends, learn something new in a playful enjoyable way or you’re just curios, I 100% encourage you to apply for a Erasmus+ program!

Kind regards,

Andreea [RO]

Job Challenges

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During the video making activities, our aims was to underline the challenges faced by young people on their way to get a job...

Job interview

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During the video making activities, our aims was to underline the challenges faced by young people on their way to get a job...

Godfather

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During the video making activities, our aims was to underline the challenges faced by young people on their way to get a job...

Job Challenge

We are glad to present you our 3rd video (out of 6) - Job Challenge - about the Jobs Challenges.

During the video making activities, our aims was to underline the challenges faced by young people on their way to get a job...

Fishing for nothing

We are glad to present you our 2nd video (out of 6) - Fishing for nothing - about the Jobs Challenges.

During the video making activities, our aims was to underline the challenges faced by young people on their way to get a job...

OSCAR's Night!

Make it big! Make it fun! Make it to the Oscars!

Today we’ve been assigned the challenge of creating a short clip that will display the job challenges people face, such as searching for the wanted positions, attending interviews and all about the process of applying for a job.

Demanding, still fun as we worked in teams, provoking our creativity and acting skills.

It was a nice experience, as we learned a lot and had a great time creating the videos.

#ais

#initiativesociale

#jobchallenge

by Cristina [RO]

The right minded boss

We are glad to present you our 1st video (out of 6) - The right minded boss - about the Jobs Challenges.

During the video making activities, our aims was to underline the challenges faced by young people on their way to get a job...

Making of...

On Saturday each team started shooting their videos after combining all their ideas. We prepared the costumes and the shooting scenes. Some went to shoot on the beach, while others stayed in the hotel. Everybody participated actively and did his or hers best. It was a very funny activity and an unforgettable moment.

#cows #initiativesociale #jobchallange

by Yoanna [BG]

Romanian Intercultural Evening

Romania’s cultural night brought around a lot of delicious food - no kidding, tables were emptied in less than 10 minutes - fun entertaining traditional dances, gypsy dances, basarabeanca and hora, and unconventional facts about Romania.

Then we all danced the night away on Romanian and international music.  

Jobs Challenge - Apply for a job (role play)

During the 7th day we were given the task of preparing for a job interview. 

Among our group, our trainers chose the people who would be interviewing for the job. They had to prepare the company they would be interviewing for .

During this, the rest of the group went to wear professional clothes. We were given instructions on how the interview should look like and everyone prepared very well. We really enjoyed preparation time, because we could think about the strongest features of our characters

#initiativesociale #jobschallange

by Grzegorz [PL]

Italian Intercultural Evening

Italian night

In this night we had fun with our Italian team .

They started a small presentation of their country with some videos followed by Kahoot quiz to learn more about Italy .

They showed us 3 typical dances, very funny :)) and we finish the evening with the best karaoke we could do .

They offer us wine, taralli, jam biscuits and savoiardi with Nutella!!

A huge thanks to our favorite presentator Edoardo Batocchi

#initiativesociale #jobschallange

How do I show up for an interview?

Job challenges, there are so many of them! Either those come from the employers or the employees.

The first step is to recognise them and take action against injustice, harassment and discrimination of any kind. Even if you pass the interview without any incidents, there is no guarantee the work environment will spare you…

In the third session, the FORUM Theatre helped us identify and discuss these issues. It was a very interesting and dynamic way to tackle this topic.

#initiativesociale #teamchicken #jobschallange

by Arda [TR]

In the last session, having all the necessary information, the participants, divided into mixed teams, created sketchs in which they presented how NOT to behave during an interview. 

They had 10 minutes per representation. All members of a team were actively involved in the scene. The spectators identified the negative situation and came up with solutions to make the presented negative situation positive. 

We used elements from the Forum Theater to be able to reach a positive situation, more precisely, the spectators could intervene where they thought they could change something from the initial scene.

Later, there were discussions regarding what was observed during the sketchs and the correct conduct, necessary in an interview, was noted by the whole group. Finally, the facilitators presented some rules that must be followed during an interview.

How do I apply for a job?

On this day we had a task that was about creating our LinkedIn accounts. 

There were many people that didn’t had one, but they found out it is fundamental to have it, because you are visible in the labour market and this way, you can easily get a job.

Because we shared our profiles in the comments section, we were able to make new connections and give each other nice recommandations.

#initiativesociale #ais #jobchallenge

by Alice [RO]

What does my resume look like?

On thursday we had to prepare a cover letter for our job in the future. In the beggining of meeting the cordinators showed us the new energizer game.

During that game we were dancing and we got a lot of fun and energy. 

After that talked about the correct way to prepare our cover letters. We took laptops and we started preparing cover letter on the Europass website. We had an hour to prepare a cover letter.

#initiativesociale #jobchallenge #Ais

by Kuba [PL]