National Youth Employment Forum (NYEF) Concept Note

Unemployment falls among the many Cameroons’ development challenges like other less developed countries. However, the results of the survey on employment are quite disturbing, particularly in Cameroon and the major contributing factor to low living standards, poverty, and misery amongst other problems facing young people in Cameroon today read more about unemployment via this link

Addressing unemployment in Cameroon falls among one of the major complex issues and challenges facing authorities, stakeholders, and policymakers due to the following:

Lack of understanding of the immediate and future needs of the job/labor market
Lack of classified and accurate information on skills, competencies, and experiences
No collaboration and coordinated action between actors in addressing employment-related issues.

NATIONAL YOUTH EMPLOYMENT FORUM (NYEF) is a platform that brings together Employers (Companies and Businesses), Jobseekers, academic institutions, and policymakers to reshape the present and future needs of employers in Cameroon using technology.

NYEF is the springboard to attain Youth Solidarity and Civic Engagement in Local Development (YOSCELD) PROGRAM’s Mission which is to Raise the Value and set the standard of the labor force in our job market to produce #Decent Jobs, inclusive and enhanced productive employment that will drive Rapid Economic Growth for Sustainable Development,

This will completely reshape the future of Employment toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs Goal #8),

The Forum objectives are as follows:

– Solicit concrete commitments for action, impact, and partnerships to implement Youth internships and Voluntary service placement.
– Review Technological solutions that will harness and reference every skill acquired to build and constitute a strong employment portfolio beginning from Holidays Job, Internships, Volunteering, and Part-time employment to full-time employment to build an employment-ready Cameroon
– Reflect on opportunities to boost productive employment and decent work among youth through intra- and inter-generational dialogue on key topics, including gender equality, rights, standards, and voice and representation;

The national employment forum has 2 major phases which are as follows:

– Municipal Youth Employment Bootcamp that mobilizes youths at the level of municipalities to digitize 1000 – Resumes from each participating municipality
– Employer and policymaker dialogue a the National Youth Employment Forum

Join the Alpha Employment Community to participate and win prices in the following steps:

Youth Solidarity and Civic Engagement in Local Development (YOSCELD) is an after school program that facilitates the transition between education/training and employment linkages through holidays jobs, internships, and volunteering to prepare new school leavers to build their Digital employment portfolios to fit in the job market

NYEF fits in 2 of the YOSCELD PROGRAM’s milestones as follows:

Milestone #1 Build relationships with policymakers and stakeholders to be able to understand the immediate and future needs of the workforce in Cameroon
Milestone #2 Facilitate collaboration and foster partnerships with institutions, businesses, and companies to build a shared vision and strategy to address unemployment challenges

NATIONAL YOUTH EMPLOYMENT FORUM (NYEF) has as a theme “Building an Inclusive employment friendly Cameroon for Productive Employment, Decent Work/Jobs and Sustainable Economic Growth” to attain the YOSCELD Mission and GOAL#8 of the UN’s SDG.

Goal

To mobilize and create over 1,000,000 Digital Employment Ready Candidates/Job seekers Portfolios (intern students and volunteers), versus 1,000,000 Digital Job Portfolios (Holidays jobs, internships, Volunteering, part-time and full time) with Businesses and Companies in Cameroon by November 30th.

The National Youth Employment Forum is organized to take place on November 25th, 2022, in any of the stadiums in the country, hosting over 20,000 youths and youth delegates, alongside, representatives from state corporations, companies, Civil Society organizations, Stakeholders, international community and policy makers meanwhile the Launching of this even shall take place in Bamenda, in the North West Region of Cameroon.

Therefore, the launching of the National program under the BAMENDA Youth EMPLOYMENT FORUM targeting Bamenda 1,2, and 3 municipalities will account for 10,000 out of the 100,000 employment portfolios (both candidates and Jobs) targeted for the North West Region of Cameroon.

Activities

This event is a 3 Day (Career Job Fairs) event that runs from the 22^nd to the 24^th of June 2022, featuring the following activities:

Day 1: A one-day training workshop for Candidates/jobseekers, interns, and volunteers
Day 2: a one-day training workshop for employers (Business owners and companies)
Day 3: The Bamenda Employment Forum with youth leaders, policymakers, employers, and the youths.

Employers Workshop

Training workshop for Employers/ Companies on Digital Job Listing, and Recruitment Management will take place on the 22nd/06/2022. with the following:

Company Listing and profile designing
Digital Job Listing (Job types and Categories,)
Digital Recruitment Management

Jobseekers Workshop

Training workshop for Jobseekers/ Candidates on Digital Resume Submission and Digital Job Application will take place on the 23^rd /06/2022. with the following:

Candidate/Jobseeker Registration and Dashboard
Digital Resume Submission
Digital Job Application

Preparatory Activities

immediately after the launching of the National Youth Employment Forum, The following activities are earmarked for the successful accomplishment of this goal:

The Municipal/sub-divisional Career Job Fairs are organized in every subdivision or council area with the target to train and Digitize at least 3000-4000 Jobs/Employment Portfolios for Jobseekers to reach our target of 1,000,000 Employment Portfolios created and 20,000 youth delegates to fill the stadium for the National Youth Employment Forum by November 30th, 2022
Radio talk show on Education to Full-Time Employment linkages through Holidays Job, Internships and voluntary Service (Radio talks and Announcement)
Visit youth groups/associations, churches, and schools
A social media campaign on Digital Employment Planning, and Recruitment Management

The following outcomes will be realized from activities:

1,000,000 Digital /Jobseeker portfolios created via EIV PORTAL
1,000,000 jobs Portfolios created for candidates VIA EIV PORTAL
Partnership with Local administrative authorities, stakeholders, policymakers and other actors created
Over 20,000 employers, jobseekers, local, regional and national authorities attend the NYEF

Technology Plan

The NYEF is powered by EIV (Employment Internship and Volunteering) Portal, which is an interactive and inclusive Technology for Employment Planning and Recruitment Management, designed to digitize employment as follows:

Digitize Job posting/listing
Digitize the candidate’s resume/CV
Digitize Job Application
Digitize Recruitment management
Digitize Company Listing

Online exposure/presence

You can visit the following links to know more about the National Youth Employment program, Youth Solidarity and Civic Engagement Program for Local Development (YOSCELD), and EIV PORTAL

NYEF Concept https://iiglobe.com/national-youth-employment-forum
Download the EIV PORTAL from Google Play Store as “EIV PORTAL” or accessed using this link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wEIVPORTAL_15173214
Youtube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=lBHXsoLBWZU&feature=share
Facebook via: https://www.facebook.com/iglobetechnologies/

Join the Alpha Employment Community to participate and win prizes in the following steps:

1) download the EIV (employment Internship and Volunteering Portal from the google play store via the following link EIV PORTAL
2) create or register your account,
3) verify your account or your employment portfolio as an Employer, Candidate, Intern, Volunteer, Freelance/Part-time candidate with mobile money,
4) order your National Youth Employment Forum (NYEF) T-shirt (Blue or White)
5) obtain your Employment Affiliate code from the one who told you about the program to participate in the EiV PORTAL Affiliate Program