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This project aims to help young disadvantaged job seekers to get noticed, get selected and perform better during job interviews and thereby increase their chances of getting employed.Employers normally select for an interview, candidates who are better qualified over those who have little or no work experience or qualifications. Therefore, for these young people, who often have a background of fewer opportunities, it is difficult to get selected for a job interview. And if selected, giving an outstanding performance during that interview, becomes the only opportunity for these young job seekers to gain employment. For this, the project has developed two main outputs: 1). The Interview Champ APP: The APP has been designed to interactively coach job seekers to better present themselves, their skills and character to potential employers. It offers an inbuilt training course that will present a range of example interview questions and answers and interview techniques on how to better perform during the job interview. The APP also has the unique facility for the user to create a short high quality ‘Living Video CV' of themselves that can be uploaded onto the projects Job Portal for potential employers to view the individual in a more representative and comprehensive way. The APP can be downloaded from the APP store or Google Play Store. 2). The Job Portal: The Job Portal can be found on the project’s website at: www.interview-champ.eu/portal/It offers the facility for 'Living CV' videos, created by the job seekers, to be uploaded for potential employers to view in order to aid the pre-interview selection process of potential candidates.During the term of the project, selected employers were invited to view and respond in a critical way to the uploaded video CVs’ in order to provide important feedback and tips for the job seekers to improve their presentation skills (performance) before the next face to face job interview. The project has worked with young people from all partner networks who played an important role in the projects work as 'Interview Stars' who can be seen on the projects website performing in a series of Do's and Don't's performances within videos on how to perform or 'not' during job interviews.The two outputs were launched at the project's Final Conference which was held in Oct 2020 in Palma de Mallorca to an audience of 87 participants (a mix of both onsite and online visitors) representing a range of organisations connected to youth employment including NGOs working in labour insertion programs, Job Centres, Recruitment Agencies, Local Government Employment Departments and Agencies. So far the project website (www.interview-champ.eu) has received over 15,500 unique visitors which is 10,000 over initial estimates.The impact of the project two products has come in the form of feedback from the organisations present at the launch who have disseminated the APP and Job Portal products to their young people networks. The response from young job seekers so far has indicated very positive results also indicated by the fast-growing number of 'users' of the APP. At the time of writing this Final Report the APP has been downloaded 654 times. (Downloads from the APP store 364 and 290 form the Google Play Store- In the application it was hoped to have 300 users).The Interview Champ APP and Job Portal are unique approaches and systems for tackling a wide-ranging problem- the poor prospects for inexperienced job seekers trying to find employment without the specific knowledge of presenting their skills and competences at an interview and/or throughout the recruitment process. Both tools have been designed to be expandable to other languages and countries.One of the effects of the Covid Pandemic is high unemployment but another effect is the need for business and education to shift its methods of delivering its services by adapting to new online technologies.The ‘Interview Champ’ tools will help job seekers to;a). Gain the skills to get noticed by employers and get invited for an interview,b). Learn how to perform well during the job interview, andc). Learn new skills to perform well in the digital world- online meetings, discussions during Skype, or conferencing situations are becoming more evident and now many employers are now seeking candidates who possess qualities to perform well and work online.
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