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Continue without acceptingBut when recruiting, he often does not come into the picture.
That is why DUO works for a JOB to give him and other young people with migration roots a chance in the job market.
📹 Our campaign with viavictor questions the sincerity of diversity in corporate branding and urges individuals and especially employers to recognise and correct their hidden biases towards young people from migrant backgrounds.
At DUO for a JOB, our mentors support and empower talents like Chidi who are often overlooked in the recruitment process
🔗 Our mission is clear: to change diversity from a buzzword to a reality.
Your greatest professional experience is very little? When you say your name, are you afraid someone will say no? Your professional network doesn’t extend beyond the neighbourhood? For once, you’ve ticked all the boxes.
Based on the many testimonies of young people supported by the association, this campaign highlights the difficulties they encounter, so that we can better propose a solution.
In almost 10 years, DUO for a JOB has enabled more than 5,000 young jobseekers from a migrant background to benefit from free, personalised support from a mentor in their job search. The aim? To combat the inequalities and difficulties these young people face in accessing the job market, and to boost their chances of securing a contract, work placement or training.
To reach as many young people as possible and offer them this service, DUO for a JOB has launched a campaign based on the many testimonies of young people supported by the association. It highlights and acknowledges the difficulties they face and how they feel, and offers them a solution. The slogans: “Your greatest professional experience is a very small one? “When you say your name, are you afraid someone will say no?”, “Your professional network doesn’t go beyond the neighbourhood?” “For once, you tick all the boxes.“
Axelle Le Brettevillois, Communications Director.
To counter the discrimination, lack of network and lack of experience mentioned in the campaign, DUO for a JOB matches each young person who signs up with the right mentor, whatever their background, skills or career plans. Mentoring creates a long-term relationship in which the mentor shares his or her experience to support the young person in the process. “It enables young people who no longer dare to dream to broaden their horizons, define projects that match their skills and boost their self-confidence,” concludes Axelle Le Brettevillois.
To mark its 10th anniversary, DUO for a JOB is sending a request to the political parties for the creation of a legal and financial framework to develop mentoring in Belgium.
In 10 years, DUO for a JOB’s experience and impact studies have proven that mentoring provides a human and effective response to some of society’s urgent challenges, and is perfectly aligned with the current political priorities of Belgian governments: increasing the employment rate, particularly for citizens of non-EU origin, NEETS and long-term unemployed; improve the management of the end-of-career situation for elderly workers; creation of social links to guarantee social cohesion.
”Given the impact and cost-effectiveness of mentoring, we should be offering this individualised support to every jobseeker who needs it, to really work towards restoring equal opportunities in Belgium,” says Julie Bodson, director of the association. “In order to make that happen, Belgium needs a legislative and financial framework to develop and anchor mentoring in a structural way in the various regions.” This is the main recommendation made by the association in its memorandum sent today to the political parties ahead of the 2024 regional and federal elections.
⭐ 7 out of 10 young people have signed a contract, internship or training course, and most of them were NEETs or long-term unemployed.
⭐ 9 out of 10 mentors say they feel useful as active members of society.
🚀 And how many stereotypes have been deconstructed?
“The new generations also teach the old ones and I think it’s more about sharing than passing on”
Jean Le Cam
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“Using the lessons of the past to create your own trajectory is an incredible richness”
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The observation is clear: Belgium has the lowest employment rate in Europe for people born outside the European Union. This figure calls into question the inclusive nature of the Belgian labour market, and of our society in general.
However, one fifth of the Belgian population is of foreign origin. Will we be able to manage this diversity and reap the benefits it could bring?
Thanks to its intergenerational and intercultural mentoring program, DUO for a JOB has been able to gather the testimonies of nearly 1300 young people with a migrant background over the past 5 years. We met young people full of skills, potential and experience with the desire to use them to participate fully in Belgian social and economic life. Through their stories and the follow-up of their duos, we learned to know their individual realities but also saw common barriers that make it difficult for them to access employment. The first objective of this report is therefore to give the floor to these young people, to testify to their reality and to draw attention to their difficulties.
Being part of the journey of all these young people has above all made it possible to confirm that if they benefit from the right springboard, young people with a migrant background can find their way. The second objective of the report is very concretely to highlight the possible solutions: the contributions of individualised support such as mentoring but also the good practices already implemented by other actors.
Accompanying these young people has finally enabled us to see that the transition to a truly inclusive Belgian society can only be made by rethinking existing mechanisms. The report proposes 8 concrete priorities based on DUO for a JOB’s experience.
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DUO for a JOB informs and educates the general public about diversity and discrimination through communication campaigns and actions on the ground and through the media.
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