SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 30 May. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the area of Employment, Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action, has launched a new project to promote the employment of 150 unemployed women with no previous professional experience.
Under the name of the ISOS project, this initiative offers participants the opportunity to carry out non-working internships for six months in companies in order to obtain their first experience in the sector for which they were trained.
The Minister of Employment, Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action, Carmen Luz Baso, and the Minister of Equality and Prevention of Gender Violence, Priscila de León, held a meeting this week with the beneficiaries of the program who are in the final stretch of a training prior to the start of internships in companies.
Carmen Luz Baso pointed out that this project, managed by the Insular Foundation for Training, Employment and Business Development (Fifede), has among its objectives promoting female employability and helping to alleviate the imbalance that exists between men and women at the time to find a job.
“Today, despite advances in terms of equality, women continue to be in a disadvantaged situation compared to men when it comes to accessing employment, among other reasons, due to family responsibilities and the difficulties of reconciling”, he added.
For her part, Priscila de León explained that one of the problems that they detect and try to solve in the Tenerife Violeta Strategic Framework is that it is difficult for women to find their first job after training. “We give the opportunity for first experience in what they were trained so much,” she said.
The project has a budget of one million euros with co-financing from the Canary Islands Development Fund (Fdcan), within the Strategic Framework for Insular Development (Medi).
Prior to the practices, during the last month the participating women have undergone different training in social and work skills and in job search techniques.
The project has been aimed at the group of unemployed women registered as job seekers in the Canary Islands Employment Service, with a degree in intermediate or higher level training cycles or who have completed professional certificates. Another requirement that they had to meet is not having had professional experience of more than three months in occupations related to their training.
The selection of program participants has been carried out in collaboration with the Canary Islands Employment Service. During the practices, the participants will receive financial aid of about 720 euros, an amount that can be increased in the event that they need support for conciliation.
