1. V.I.D.E.O. Video-CV to Increase and Develop Employment Opportunities GENERAL PRESENTATION Who we are Where we want to go Where are we Marco Merlini First dissemination Seminar Thessaloniki, December 11th 2009

2. THE V.I.D.E.O. PROJECT V.I.D.E.O. is an international Project coordinated by the City of Rome – Direction for Training and Employment. Its Partnership is composed by international institutions, agencies and centres from four countries (Italy, Greece, Germany, United Kingdom), engaged in the field of research, communication, professional training, labour market, and employment. Partners of the Project are: EURO INNOVANET srl, Rome, Italy TRUST srl, Rome, Italy Arbeitsgemeinschaft SGB II in Kreis Plön – Arge. Plön, Germany The Christian Youth Village Foundation of Germany – CJD Eutin, Eutin, Germany Institute of Training and Vocational Guidance – IEKEP, Athens, Greece Polydynamo Centre of Social Intervention of Cyclades, Syros, Greece OAKE Europe, Manchester, United Kingdom

3. GENERAL FRAMEWORK The V.I.D.E.O. Project is focused on the development of a new, innovative tool aimed to help the match between the job demand and supply, with particular focus on a target of women (in Italy) and over 45 adults (in Greece) without gender distinction. ► PROBLEM TO DISCUSS The Video-CV represents one of the new, effective frontiers for recruitment, one of the ways to let the employers know “who I am and what I can do”. The Video-CV tool is specifically created to answer to the complexity of recruitment process considering both the difficulty shown by the demand in defining clearly its needs and by the formal training supply in meeting effectively the professional needs. The Video-CV supports particularly job seekers who, though they hold skills, cannot properly compete in the labor market because:  they have acquired competences within informal contexts – hence they cannot prove them through certificates as for formal competences and/or  are scarcely able to communicate and valorize them and/or  are holders of skills difficult to be narrated in a traditional written CV. ► The Video-CV shows and demonstrates abilities in person.

4. GENERAL FRAMEWORK The development of meta-competences related to job searching, self marketing techniques and self-consciousness capability has become goal for efficient guidance interventions. More than the assistance in the self-assessment process, the efficacious transfer of k-competences (e.g. relational, communicational, skills) and specific abilities linked to the job seeking (e.g. how to stand an interview, select job opportunities, compile a CV, manage stress, emotions and psychological pressure during tests and exams) measures at most the quality and effectiveness of occupational guidance and tutoring services. In this frame, another aspect to be focused concerns the influence of Information Technologies (IT) and the wide capacity of guidance operators to manage complex digital technologies.

5. MAIN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT / 1 For Counsellors and experts of the Centres for Vocational Guidance, Centres for the Employment and similar structures, the Project aims at: Integrating and strengthening the guidance and counselling services offer through communication tools and technologies Designing a web-based platform able to host the Video CVs and facilitate the matching between labour demand and supply Arising consciousness on the communication potentiality of Videos in storytelling aimed to job search Offering to guidance operators the opportunity of acquiring ICT competences useful to support their role and daily work Developing communication skills in video production (both in operators and job seekers)

6. MAIN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT / 2 For the job seekers, the Project aims at: Strengthening the efficacy of the applicant on the labour market Disseminating the autobiographic guidance modality Contributing to the development of self-esteem and self-evaluation ability in recognising strengths and weaknesses of one’s own professional profile

7. EXPECTED PRODUCTS / 1 In the framework of the V.I.D.E.O. Project, several products will be developed. Among them, the most remarkable and innovative are:  An integrated Model for the realisation and exploitation of the Video-CV tool based on previous 2 steps: - Starting model: Previous experiences made by the City of Rome and by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft SGB II in Kreis Plön; ► DONE - Prototypical Model based on the outcomes of the researches, both desk and in-field, carried out by the project Partners (National reports from all the participating countries and a General Report comparing the data sourced from them). ► DONE

8. EXPECTED PRODUCTS / 2 The Model will be transferable and sustainable pointing out: 1.the conditions of use related to the Video-CV tool within counselling and employment services and with respect to the range of target and the different national contexts involved 2.the technological and organisational aspects implied by the transfer action (National/international legal norms; suitable profile and competences needed from counsellor and experts; basic technological equipment required, logistic and organisational asset implied; entrepreneur involvement).

9. EXPECTED PRODUCTS / 3  Training Curriculum for guidance operators and technicians (courseware of 15 hours) in EN + IT + GR and related Kit of training-guidance material to support the realization of Video Curricula (EN+IT+GR) ► DONE A DRAFT (SEE INTERIM REPORT)  Script-Format of Video Curriculum in all partnership languages (EN, GR, DE, IT) ► DONE THE PROTOTYPE, UNDER EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP  Protocols addressed to operators (EN, IT, DE) ► DONE THE PROTOTYPE, UNDER EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF THE PARTNERSHIP ► ANY SPECIFIC PROBLEM?

10. EXPECTED PRODUCTS / 4  Around 46 Video Curricula tailored to the level of social and technical interaction appropriate for the target and published on the project website (database) (IT, GR, EN and DE)  Adoption of the Video-CV tool by 3-5 counselling and employment centres per country (IT, GR, EN and DE)  Guidelines for beneficiaries = Handbook on “guidelines to the creation and use of the Video Curriculum tool” addressed to all project target groups (EN, IT, DE). ► ARE WE MOVING IN THIS DIRECTION? ► AT WHICH STEP ARE WE? ► ANY SPECIFIC PROBLEM?