TUTORING ACTIVITY AND ITS ROLE IN ACHIEVING TRAINING OBJECTIVES AND LONGTERM SOCIO-PROFESSIONAL INSERTION OF THE BENEFICIARIES IN POSDU PROJECTS
Abstract
The project Integrated services for promotingsustainable employment in 5 regions of Romania
implemented by People Development Foundation (FDP)
aimed to attract and retain on the labor market inactive
people, the unemployed and people looking for a job
through the promotion of active measures in the field of
employment in the 5 regions of Romania. The project
was implemented during August 2010 and September
2013. Now, at the end of our work, we are more than
proud to have realized that besides accomplishing the
proposed objectives: informing for 3.600 beneficiaries,
integrated professional services for 1.080 of which 396
long-term professional integrated, developing a solid
practice in tutoring beneficiaries’ career paths mattered
the most. We have learned that besides an indicator, a
beneficiary, there lies a person to person interaction able
to motivate and change a negative and passive mentality
into a dynamic perspective about work and life ingeneral. This paper presents a success story of a teambuilding aiming to develop competencies needed forba sustainable employment in our contemporary society.
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