V.I.D.E.O. Video-CV to Increase and Develop Employment Opportunities

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V.I.D.E.O.Video-CV to Increase and Develop
Employment Opportunities

• GENERAL PRESENTATION
• Marco Merlini
• First Transnational Workshop
• Rome, 18-19 March 2009

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GENERAL FRAMEWORK
The V.I.D.E.O. Project is focused on the
development of a new, innovative tool aimed to
help the match between the job demand and supply,
with particular focus on a target of women (in
Italy) and over 45 adults (in Greece) without
gender distinction. The Video-CV represents one
of the new, effective frontiers for recruitment,
one of the ways to let the employers know who I
am and what I can do. The Video-CV tool is
specifically created to answer to the complexity
of recruitment process considering both the
difficulty shown by the demand in defining
clearly its needs and by the formal training
supply in meeting effectively the professional
needs. The Video-CV supports particularly job
seekers who, though they hold skills, cannot
properly compete in the labor market because they
have acquired competences informally and/or are
scarcely able to communicate and valorise them.
Besides, the Video-CV shows and demonstrates
abilities in person.
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GENERAL FRAMEWORK
The development of meta-competences related to
job searching, self marketing techniques and
self-consciousness capability has become goals
for efficient guidance interventions. More than
the assistance in the self-assessment process,
the efficacious transfer of k-competences (e.g.
relational, communicational, analytical skills)
and specific abilities linked to the job seeking
(e.g. how to stand an interview, select job
opportunities, compile a CV, manage stress,
emotions and psychological pressure during tests
and exams) measures at most the quality and
effectiveness of occupational guidance and
tutoring services. In this frame, another aspect
to be focused concerns the influence of
Information Technologies (IT) and the wide
capacity of guidance operators to manage complex
digital technologies.
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MAIN AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

• Integrating and strengthening the guidance and
  counselling services offer through communication
  tools and technologies
• Designing a web-based platform able to host Video
  CVs and facilitate the matching between labour
  demand and supply
• Strengthening the efficacy of the applicant on
  the labour market
• Disseminating the autobiographic guidance
  modality
• Contributing to the development of self-esteem
  and self-evaluation ability in recognising
  strengths and weaknesses of ones own
  professional profile
• Developing communication skills in video
  production, both in operators and job seekers
• Arising consciousness on the communication
  potentiality of Videos in storytelling aimed to
  job search
• Offering to guidance operators the opportunity of
  acquiring ICT competences useful to support their
  role and daily work.

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CONTENTS AND EXPECTED PRODUCTS

• In the framework of the V.I.D.E.O.
  Project, several products will be developed.
• Among them, the most remarkable and innovative
  are
• A Model for the realisation of the Video-CV tool
  based on the results of an on-field analysis
  (National reports from all the participating
  countries and a General Report comparing the data
  sourced from them). The Model points out
• the conditions of use related to the Video-CV
  tool within counselling and employment services
  and with respect to the specific target and the
  different national contexts involved
• the technological and organisational aspects
  implied by the transfer action (National/internati
  onal legal norms counsellor and experts profile
  and competences needed basic technological
  equipment required, logistic and organisational
  asset implied entrepreneur involvement).

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CONTENTS AND EXPECTED PRODUCTS

• Training Curriculum for guidance operators and
  technicians (courseware of 15 hours) in EN IT
  GR and related Kit of training-guidance material
  to support the realisation of Video Curricula
  (ENITGR)
• Script-Format of Video Curriculum in all
  partnership languages (EN, GR, DE, IT)
• Protocols addressed to operators (EN, IT, DE)
• Guidelines for beneficiaries Handbook on
  guidelines to the creation and use of the Video
  Curriculum tool addressed to all project target
  groups (EN, IT, DE).
• Adoption of the Video-CV tool by 3-5
  counselling and employment centres per country
  (IT , GR, EN and DE)
• Around 40 Video Curricula tailored to the level
  of social and technical interaction appropriate
  for the target and published on the project
  website (database) (IT, GR, EN and DE)

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THE PARTNERSHIP OF THE V.I.D.E.O. PROJECT

• The V.I.D.E.O. Project is coordinated by the City
  of Rome Dept. XIV.
• The Partnership is composed by international
  institutions, agencies and centres from four
  countries (Italy, Greece, Germany, United
  Kingdom), engaged in the field of research,
  communication, professional training, labour
  market, and employment.
• Partners of the Project are
• EURO INNOVANET srl, Rome, Italy
• TRUST srl, Rome, Italy
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft SGB II in Kreis Plön Arge.
  Plön, Germany
• The Christian Youth Village Foundation of
  Germany CJD Eutin, Eutin, Germany
• Institute of Training and Vocational Guidance
  IEKEP, Athens, Greece
• Polydynamo Centre of Social Intervention of
  Cyclades, Syros, Greece
• OAKE Europe, Manchester, United Kingdom

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WORKPLAN

• PHASE 1 (01/02/2008 - 01/04/2009)
• START-UP
• Workplan
• Dissemination Plan
• Monitoring and evaluation Plan
• Project Web site and project graphic design
• Preliminary analysis questionnaire format and
  National reports
• Synthesis Report describing the preliminary
  analysis outcomes (SWOT) and the proposal of an
  integrated Model to be experimented within the
  project
• Protocol and grid format to be used to realise
  the research action expected in the following
  phase (interviews).
• Project Brochure (all national languages, 1000
  copies).

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WORKPLAN

• PHASE 2 (02/04/2009 - 01/06/2009)
• SURVEY AIMED AT VERIFYING THE FEASIBILITY AND
  ADAPTABILITY OF THE MODEL
• National reports describing the interview
  outcomes
• Comparative report describing the transferability
  of the Model worked out in the previous phase
  focusing in particular on its usability within
  each partner local context and efficacy with
  respect to the project target (women and over
  45).

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WORKPLAN

• PHASE 3 (02/06/2009 - 01/08/2009)
• ADAPTING AND INTEGRATING THE PROTOTYPE.
  IMPLEMENTING ACTIONS PROPAEDEUTICAL TO THE
  EXPERIMENTATION AND TRANSFER
• 8 video-curricula captured and edited as pilot
  samples finalizing content for web (IT, GR, UK,
  DE)
• Kit of training-guidance material (EN, IT, GR)
  to support the realisation of Video Curricula
  implying shooting video, synthesizing the
  composition, producing video communications,
  story plotting, audio and narration planning and
  recording, video editing.
• Video-CV Database on project website
• Project Newsletter n.1 provided on project
  website (EN, IT) and delivered to Mailing list
  subjects.

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WORKPLAN

• PHASE 4 (02/08/2009 - 01/09/2009)
• EXPERIMENTATION AND DISSEMINATION
• Action 1 Experimentation (IT and GR)
• 12 trained operators
• 6 centres able to adopt the Video-CV tool
• 6 experimental Video-CV produced on web-based
  database
• Training and informative KIT on how to make the
  Video Curriculum
• 2 National reports on experimentation outcomes
  implying suggestions and indications for the
  final fine tuning of the Model
• Action 2 Valorisation (UK and DE)
• 12 informed operators
• 6 centres able to adopt the VC tool
• Training and informative KIT on how to make the
  Video Curriculum
• 2 National reports on feedback received
• 1 Transnational comparative report on
  experimentation outcomes implying
  suggestions/indications for the final fine tuning
  of the Model

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WORKPLAN

• PHASE 5 (01/09/2009 - 02/12/2009)
• FINAL FINE TUNING OF THE MODEL
• Curriculum for Vocational Guidance operators
  (courseware of 15 hours) in EN IT GR and
  related Training material (EN IT GR)
• Script-Format of Video Curriculum in all
  partnership languages (EN, GR, DE, IT)
• Protocols addressed to operators (EN, IT, DE)
• Guidelines for beneficiaries (EN, IT, DE)
• Final version of the web-based database (IT e EN)
• Project Newsletter n. 2 provided on project
  website (IT, EN) and delivered to Mailing list
  subjects.
• INTERMEDIATE REPORT

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WORKPLAN

• PHASE 6 (02/12/2009-01/06/2010)
• VIDEO-CURRICULUM TOOL TRANSFER
• 2 Partnership Meeting (Thessaloniki GR) and
  documents related
• 1 Project Dissemination Seminar (Thessaloniki
  GR) and documents related
• Task force of trained operators and technicians
  in Greece and Italy (around 10 operators for each
  country IT/GR)
• Adoption of the Video Curriculum tool by 3-5
  counselling and employment centres per country
• Around 40 Video Curricula (2020) published on
  project website (database)
• Newsletter n. 3 provided on project website (IT,
  EN) and delivered to Mailing list subjects.

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WORKPLAN

• PHASE 7 (02/06/2010 - 01/09/2010)
• FOLLOW UP AND OUTCOMES EVALUATION
• Comparative Evaluation report
• National Reports on Follow Up
• Handbook on guidelines to the use and creation
  of the Video Curriculum tool addressed to all
  project target groups
• Project Leaflet.

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WORKPLAN

• PHASE 8 (02/09/2010 - 01/10/2010)
• EVALUATION MEETING AND FINAL CONFERENCE
• Partnership evaluation meeting
• Project Final Conference and related documents
• Project Newsletter n. 4 provided on project
  website (IT, EN) and delivered to Mailing list
  subjects.