Yesterday, the 1st Employment and Training Fair in La Orotava brought together more than twenty entities and institutions that offered job opportunities and improved training to job seekers. In a single day, the attendees were able to get in touch with the main public bodies, companies, employment agencies, NGOs and foundations that fight against unemployment every day. More than 300 students from educational centers in the town passed through the sample, in which workshops and training talks on job interviews, job search, job orientation or entrepreneurship were also offered.
The upper part of the kiosk square housed tents in which the work of programs and entities such as Barrios por el Empleo, Don Bosco Itinerarios, CEOE Tenerife, the Chamber of Commerce, the Ponos Project, the Employment and Training Agency of La Orotava, the Adecco Foundation, the Hopscotch Association or the Canarian Hostess School.
The offer of approved and free courses was also very important, with references such as Radio Ecca, in whose catalog there are online courses or with printed material on early childhood education, health, socio-health care, technology, languages or business. Proposals such as children’s entertainment, food handling, commercial sales techniques, basic training in occupational risk prevention or communication techniques with dependent people in institutions, among others.
Generación 21 made visible its short-term, blended and scalable training for oppositions and other selective procedures, with courses on the preparation of manuals and didactic notebooks, programming of training actions, tools to deliver training actions, restoration services, basic digital skills or managerial skills for human resource management, among others. The Construction Labor Foundation (FLC) announced that it forms in the placement of panels of insulating material indoors, ceilings and floors; placement of insulating panels outside, and collection and storage of construction and demolition waste, among other specialties.
In this fair there were also specific and current job offers, such as that of a training manager for Acción Laboral Tenerife, or those that Activa Canarias disclosed in its position: monitors, night concierge, hotel staff, installers, maintenance managers or a tour coordinator. There was also the possibility of entering employment exchanges such as the one specific to the construction sector of the FLC; Portalento.es, Inserta Empleo, or Activa Canarias.
Afes Mental Health, the Adecco Foundation, Sinpromi or Inserta Empleo were the employment alternatives for people with disabilities; The Red Cross showed its projects of employment itineraries for vulnerable people and help for families with all their unemployed members, and the Rural Action Group of Tenerife and the Agricultural Extension Offices gave proposals for entrepreneurship in the rural world.
The mayor of Villero, Francisco Linares (CC), stressed that although it is not a direct responsibility of the municipalities, «La Orotava bets in times like the present, after successive crises, for employment and training. We know that people who are not trained have very serious difficulties in joining a decent job. If you don’t train, getting a job is practically impossible at the moment, when qualified personnel are sought ».
“Today we have more than twenty stalls here that show possibilities, especially for the youngest, whom we have encouraged to come. Many boys and girls who are here today have been able to discover new opportunities for the future”, stressed Linares. The mayor of Employment, Deisy Ramos (CC), made it clear that this event aims to consolidate itself in the annual calendar to help residents find work or improve their employment situation.
