With76% of youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) indicating that finding a job is the biggest challenge of their generation,* Education For Employment (EFE) and Bayt.com have launched a partnership to support youth employment in MENA. The collaboration will enable youth trained by EFE to benefit from job market insights and opportunities generated by Bayt.com, and will provide employers with direct access to a pool of skilled, retainable EFE Alumni across the MENA.
Jasmine Nahhas di Florio, Senior Vice President for Strategy and Partnerships at EFE, added that, “At Education For Employment, we believe that when youth have the right skills and job opportunities, they can do more than transform their own lives: they can transform their communities and companies, too. We are proud to partner with Bayt.com to help employers tap into the dynamic pool of skilled, ready-to-work EFE Alumni, and to connect youth to the job market insights they need to make smart career decisions.”
The Bayt.com and EFE partnership builds on the success of the Opportunity Café led by Starbucks MENA in collaboration with EFE and Bayt.com in April2016. The Opportunity Café initiative organized the region’s largest-ever CV writing workshop across29 Starbucks stores to train youth and help them prepare for jobs, and produced youth employment insights through a survey of over600 youth across the region.