SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 5 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo de La Palma, through the Employment and Economic Promotion Service, directed by Raquel Díaz, has launched the La Palma 2022 New Employment Opportunities (NOE) project, through which a total of 26 unemployed youth.
This is the third edition of an initiative aimed at encouraging the hiring of professionals through the modality of paid labor practices. The program is co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus within the scope of the new multiannual financial framework 2021-2027-ESF+ Canary Islands 2021-2027 Program.
The Minister of Employment, Raquel Díaz, pointed out that this initiative means for many young graduates “the possibility of accessing a job for the first time after completing their studies and accumulating twelve months of professional experience in a stage that we understand as key to their professional career, both present and future, putting their knowledge at the service of the different areas of the Cabildo in which they will carry out their work and acquire essential skills and abilities”.
In addition, Raquel Díaz highlighted the interest of this type of programs with which they continue to bet “to find solutions to some of the great challenges that exist on the Island, such as offering opportunities, attracting and retaining talent and qualified labor.”
Among the objectives and advantages of the NOE program are those of favoring, on the one hand, the hiring and labor insertion of young people and, on the other, innovating, advancing and materializing projects of general interest that are currently in the execution phase or that the Cabildo has scheduled to develop immediately.
Among the professional profiles that are incorporated into this new edition of the NOE are two senior technicians in sociocultural and tourism animation, six senior technicians in Social Integration, a graduate in History, three caregivers of people in situations of dependency, a graduate in Social Education , two graduates in Psychology, three graduates in Law and one graduate in Social Work, Pedagogy, Occupational Therapy, Accounting and Finance, Labor Relations and Agricultural Engineering, respectively. In addition, it has the support of two tutors who will be in charge of guiding and accompanying the participants.
The young beneficiaries of this action have a university or professional training degree of higher or intermediate level, or titles officially recognized as equivalent, in accordance with the laws regulating the current education system in accordance with the provisions of Organic Law 5/2002 , of June 19, of Qualifications and Vocational Training and who have little or no previous work experience in jobs related to the discipline in which they have graduated.
The total budget of this project, which will end in January 2024, amounts to 1,217,276.28 euros, of which the Canary Islands Employment Service subsidizes 1,069,362.16 euros and the contribution of the Cabildo’s own resources amounts to 147,914.12 euro.
This program is part of the second axis of the Employment Plans led by this island Institution throughout this mandate and which has so far involved an investment of 18.2 million euros and 682 people hired.
