Employability Skills

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

Amideast will develop and conduct a training program designed to enable 15 candidates with disabilities to successfully pass Amazon's hiring bar to be eligible for working in selected roles at Amazon.

The training will focus on three areas:

Skills for Success program consists of two main components:
Part 1:  Personal and professional skills such as communication skills, interpersonal skills, critical thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork that provides participants with business-related technology skills. Skills for Success® provides youth with increased personal awareness, improved English language proficiency, workplace skills valued by employers, job search strategies and resources, and a community-impact experience.

Amideast, in partnership with Forward MENA, launched the Digital Marketing Training program.

The program includes the following main outputs:

In partnership with the International Labor Organization (ILO), Amideast is developing the skills and training capacity of 30 Career Guidance Counselors working in ILO’s 14 Employment Centers across the Kingdom and in Zaatari and Azraq refugee camps in support of the ILO Jordan’s 2022 Decent Country Work Programme.

Sponsored through funding from the Boeing Company, Amideast selected 20 Jordanian fresh graduates with degrees in ICT, Computer Science and Computer Engineering seeking careers in the ICT field.

Amideast Skills for Success^® program is sponsored by Citi Foundation for unemployed Egyptian university/institute graduates. The program prepares unemployed youth for the workforce through the provision of training in the areas of business English, computer skills, integrated skills for the workplace, and career building and planning. To-date, more than 200 youth have finished the program and found job opportunities in Delta.

Participants benefit from 275 hours of training over a 10-month period, divided into three phases.

The new program is funded by Morocco’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a bilateral foreign aid agency of the U.S. government. Partners in the project include MCA Morocco (the Moroccan arm of the MCC), Morocco’s Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, and ANAPEC (National Agency for Promotion of Employment and Skills).

Amideast/Morocco’s goal is to help job candidates improve their employment prospects through training and match them to jobs, while assisting private sector companies and organizations in meeting their hiring needs in 2020.

Amideast is recruiting 20 unemployed young men and women, aged 18 - 30, for a nine-month intensive training program that will enable them to find a job.
Participants will benefit from more than 200 hours of training, divided into three phases.

Phase 1 - Personal & Professional Skills

This training focuses on critical personal and professional skills relevant to most career paths:

This new initiative addresses the skills mismatch that underlies the high rates of youth unemployment in the MENA region. It also seeks to foster global communication and contribute to the region's economic development.