1. My YCI
User Guide
Youth Career Initiative is an initiative of the International Tourism Partnership and Business in the Community

2. What is My YCI?
A portal to access all YCI resources, documents, templates and available training materials, as well as detailed step by step guidelines to take you through programme implementation and operations
Who is My YCI for?
Partners at local, regional and corporate level both from hotel and non-profit partners

3. Landing Page

4. Programme Resources panel
My YCI panel
Programme Resources panel
Members panel
Dashboards

5. Key Features
My YCI panel – the top panel on the right hand side. Access and edit your profile and return to the homepage here
Programme Resources panel – the second panel on the right hand side. Access training resources, created by the YCI team here, and access the YCI Partners’ Network on LinkedIn
Dashboards – the yellow buttons on the bottom left hand side. This is where you can find key resources for Hotel and Non-Profit partners
Members panel – the bottom panel on the right hand side. This is where you can see all My YCI members and interact with them, you can also do this via the YCI Partners’ Network on LinkedIn

6. Set up your profile

7. Navigate to profile and home page Access programme resources
Fill in with your details
Navigate to profile and home page
Access programme resources
View member profiles

8. How to set up your profile
On any page in My YCI, click on ‘My Profile’ in the ‘My YCI’ panel
Fill in the form with your details, adding LinkedIn, Twitter, a profile picture and a short biography
When you’re done, click on ‘save all changes’
You can keep track of your own and others’ activity on My YCI by clicking on their profile picture in the ‘Members’ panel.

9. My Profile Activity – a log of user activity on My YCI
Profile – navigates to the user’s profile. If you are on your own profile, you have the option to edit it.
Notifications – a log of all notifications received, i.e. when someone mentions you in a comment by
Settings – change your password, and other details here
Personal – a log of the user’s activity, and if on your own profile, you have the option to share an update with other My YCI members
Mentions and favourites – logs of these interactions by the user

10. Dashboards

11. Navigate to profile and home page Access programme resources
View member profiles

12. Hotels’ Dashboard Resources are categorised as follows:
Getting Started: Hotel Implementation
Launching and Administering YCI
Graduation and Programme Conclusion
Brand Standards and Quality and Assurance Requirements
To access materials, click on each heading (in bold underneath themes) and you’ll find a how-to guide with links to all relevant resources
The My YCI, Programme Resources and Members panels are visible for quick and easy access

13. Non-Profit Partner’s Dashboard
Resources are categorised as follows:
Getting Started: Non-Profit Partner Implementation
Launching and Administering YCI
Graduation and Programme Conclusion
Brand Standards and Quality and Assurance Requirements
To access materials, click on each heading (in bold underneath themes) and you’ll find a how-to guide with links to all relevant resources
The My YCI, Programme Resources and Member panels are visible for easy and quick access

14. Programme Resources

15. Programme Materials Materials are broken down into two categories
Downloadable Resources - these include PowerPoint presentations and other useful tools
Online Resources – these are open source resources and online training materials which we feel will be of use to partners
YCI on LinkedIn
YCI Partners Network – private group for YCI partners on LinkedIn
Good Practice – highlighting examples of good practice from our hotel and Non-Profit Partners
Submit resources – share online and offline tools with fellow YCI partners

16. YCI Partners Network

17. YCI Partners Network
Engage with fellow YCI partners and the YCI Team in our new private group on LinkedIn
This is a closed group for you to discuss any issues or successes such as operational challenges and good practices that you have come across or implemented and want to share with the network to look for solutions, other points of view and inspire others to replicate your good practice .
Ask questions about YCI operations (challenges/successes) so that other partners and the YCI Global Team can discuss these queries with you.