Training needs of young immigrants within European countries
The perception of labour market barriers is rather similar for both non EU and EU immigrants. Some barriers the non EU immigrants perceive as slightly bigger (especially “Awareness of employment rights and obligations”;” Career orientation & job choice”), while other are perceive as bigger by EU immigrants (especially “CV preparation”; “Communication & Social skills (behaviour-cultural misunderstandings)”). However 47% of non EU immigrants do not have a job, comparing to 21% of EU immigrants without a job.
Within the project “Pathways to work” this research has been conducted in order to:
- gain a deep understanding of current immigrant attitudes and perceived barriers and obstacles to gain fulfilling employment at the appropriate level;
- gain a thorough understanding of immigrants’ training needs to enable them to gain employment at the appropriate level.