E-Mentoring Unemployed Youth

The aim of this course is to enable adult educators to develop and/or improve their knowledge, skills, and competencies to conceive e-mentoring programmes for unemployed youth, with a focus on understanding each participant’s needs and social location, developing job search skills, job search techniques, active participation, netiquette, and intercultural awareness. E-mentoring programmes can be a sequence of exchanges, including trust-building, self-disclosure, empathy, and communication, that define the mentoring process. The mentor may offer the mentee informational support, such as career guidance, practical aid such as assistance with job hunting, and social and/or emotional support, which may be related to difficulties involving the mentee either directly or indirectly. The demographic characteristics of participants, such as age, gender, and race, as well as personality traits such as shyness, health factors like the complexity of any handicap, and environmental factors like family, friends, and school, may influence the benefits of receiving this support.

Regarding Learning Objectives:

• Have knowledge of the social context and the mentee’s intercultural awareness.
• Develop e-tools to assess the mentee’s intercultural competence.
• Evaluate the needs, social context, and cultural competency of the mentee to determine goals for the e-mentoring relationship.
• Identify the core skills and job search techniques required to conduct an effective job search.
• Plan e-mentoring sessions aimed at enhancing the mentee’s job searching skills.
• Assist the mentee in practicing different job search techniques.
• Define active participation.
• Select case studies to be used in e-mentoring sessions on active citizen participation.
• Help the mentee reflect on their own active participation skills.
• Explain the rules of netiquette.
• Develop guidelines for mentees on appropriate and safe internet communication.
• Assist the mentee in building an appropriate digital footprint.