Skills create possibility. Work can create independence.
YUVA helps young people strengthen employability, understand career pathways, prepare for the workplace and connect with educational, vocational and employment opportunities.
Education builds capability. Employment can turn it into economic security.
Completing education or training is an important milestone, but it does not automatically provide a young person with access to stable work.
They may still need help identifying suitable pathways, understanding employers’ expectations, presenting their skills, preparing for interviews and locating opportunities.
YUVA’s employment pillar is designed to help bridge that gap between capability and economic opportunity.
YUVA therefore combines skills development, career preparation and connections to education, training and employment pathways.
From career direction to workplace preparation.
YUVA’s published employment framework identifies several ways young people may be supported according to their age, location and circumstances.
Help young people identify vocational training or university programmes that fit their interests, abilities and potential employment pathways.
Scholarships and educational opportunities may help young people continue developing the qualifications required for later employment.
Training can combine practical workplace preparation, transferable skills and guidance relevant to entering employment.
Interview techniques and mock interviews help young people practise communicating their experience, skills and potential.
Support can include résumé preparation, recommendation letters and other documentation required during the application process.
Online resources, interests and talent assessments can help young people explore career possibilities more deliberately.
Relationships with employers and business organisations can help young people understand opportunities and connect more effectively with the local labour market.
Five steps towards stronger labour-market participation.
Understand interests, strengths and the kinds of education, training or work that may be a good fit.
Build technical knowledge, soft skills and other capabilities valued in education and employment.
Create a résumé, gather documentation and practise interviews and workplace communication.
Identify training programmes, employers, job listings and other opportunities relevant to the next step.
Move into further education, vocational development or employment and continue building skills over time.
Getting the opportunity is only part of the challenge.
Sustainable employment also depends on how well a young person can communicate, learn, collaborate, manage responsibilities and adapt to the expectations of a workplace.
YUVA’s wider education and empowerment work helps build many of these capabilities before young people reach the employment stage.
Employability works better when training connects with the real labour market.
YUVA’s published employment approach includes building relationships with local employers and business organisations.
Those relationships can help young people understand what employers are looking for, become aware of opportunities and prepare more effectively for the transition into work.
Employability should become visible in skills and access.
YUVA’s published employment framework identifies two principal measures for young people aged 18 to 24: development of marketable skills and greater ability to access the local job market.
YUVA has previously used digital job listings to connect young people with vacancies.
YUVA’s 2023 Projects Update documented its Online Employment Portal as an employment-access initiative in Mauritius. The figures shown here are historical figures reported in that publication and should not be read as current portal statistics.
Employment readiness begins before the first application.
Decent work and economic growth.
YUVA’s employment pillar supports the direction of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8, which includes productive employment, decent work and greater employment opportunity for young people.
Employers, professionals and supporters can all contribute.
Employment completes the pathway, but it does not stand alone.
YUVA’s programme model connects Education, Health, Empowerment and Employment because sustainable opportunity depends on more than one part of a young person’s development.