« Intermediation : the importance of working alongside companies for long-term unemployed inclusion »
This webinar was organised by MIREC and gathered almost 60 participants.
Titled “Intermediation practices: The importance of relations with companies for the sustainable integration of the long-term unemployed”, this seminar allowed MIREC to present the tools used at the Centre d’Evaluation des Potentialités, the first reception at MIREC:
- Initial intake interview with a semi-directive framework for all beneficiaries based on 3 questions:What the person knows how to do (mastered), What the person wants to do (desired), What the person no longer wants to do
- Interview outline specific to a trade/sector in order to put a jobseeker in a situation where he/she is faced with a trade and a targeted sector (e.g. for the “HGV driver” training)
- Métierama: a fun game with job cards to help the jobseeker discover jobs that he/she is not familiar with.
- Explorama: playful content with photos in the form of boards dealing with the professional environment and gestures by drawing a parallel with hobbies.
- Vis ma vie: video with working conditions and a clear view of the job to be shown to the jobseeker
- Competence grids – Active mediation where the jobseeker assesses himself/herself in each job and points out the skills to be updated
- Other tools: Horizon Emploi’s job video, YouTube, to identify the life skills and know-how required
But also the principle of intermediation and active mediation, meaning a direct intervention in the process of establishing a job offer that is built reciprocally with the employer. Where intermediation intervenes at a later stage with an independent creation of the offer.
MIREC specifies the concept of active mediation as follows:
- Territory
MIREC operates in the district of Charleroi, which has more than 400,000 inhabitants, a territory that is 6 times more populated than the national average in a post-industrial region that has known steel, coal and glass in the 20th century but that has modernised with aeronautics, biotechnology and logistics. At present, the region has 5,000 companies, 1,000 of which work with MIREC.
- Intervention framework
- Intermediation and active mediation are based on 7 commitments:
- To better understand and analyse the demand
- Disseminate the job offer with reactivity
- Take charge of or support recruitment
- Providing first-line information
- To propose adjustment or training sequences
- Ensure follow-up in employment
- Positioning itself as a real partner
- Intermediation and active mediation
- Intermediation and active mediation are based on 7 commitments:
Active mediation means a direct intervention in the process of establishing a job offer that is reciprocally constructed with the employer. Whereas intermediation intervenes at a later stage with an independent creation of the offer. The latter approach builds its relationship to qualification through a logic of matching supply and demand. In order for the requirements defined by the employer to be met, it is necessary to consider the rise in competence of the job seeker and to aim at matching within a linear process. Active mediation takes the opposite approach by putting a strong emphasis on contractual negotiation and the objectification of skills identified for the job. The integration pathway is intended to be a series of round-trips allowing the acquisition of various skills that give rise to employment opportunities (iterative pathway).
The seminar was also an opportunity for MIREC to present the professional gestures selected for micro-training.