CASE
MUNICIPALITIES PROVIDING FIRST TIME EXPERIENCES
OVER 20 MUNICIPALITIES have been enabling first work experiences to targeted specific groups.
Focus has been providing short (from few hours to max few days) to young people between 14-17 years, young under 24 or 29 years, “just arrived”, immigrants etc - depending on the municipality needs.
Booked hours are allocated to create suitable tasks, e.g.
to municipality’s own internal units e.g. elderly and disabled care, tourism, events, maintenance work etc. and
to local NGO’s.
There has been over 200 NGO’s participating in this model.
Important criteria has been to book only those workers who belong to target group and do not yet have any or many work experiences. By providing them first experiences they have much better chances of getting further opportunities.
CASE
HELSINKI MUNICIPALITY - helping young
Providing meaningful work in local ecosystem
Helsinki has provided over 7000 work experiences to over 600 local youth (mainly under 19 years old) during 2022-2023.
They have engaged with e.g. elder care, youth centers and local events and created a model where youth can get meaningful and valuable work experiences
“Our users feel committed when the platform has our brand and exact needs”
CASE
SHARED VALUE WITH NGO AND CORPORATE CSR
Insurance company
Enable first work experiences to the youth with ”Connecting young and elderly” initiative
~3000 hours sponsored to local well-being and concrete work experiences
Tasks organised by 19 local Red Cross offices
Red Cross got additional funding to themselves (new fundraising opportunity)
50 young people got few weeks work experience with earning
Local elder care homes and elders got help
Insurance company got improved brand and good visibility in local press being one of the only companies enabling summer jobs for young during the pandemic beaten summer
OVER 15,000 HOURS ENABLED BY VARIOUS CSR CAMPAIGNS AND SPONSORSHIP MODELS
MANY OTHER SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS ARE USING THE PLATFROM TO HELP THEIR TARGET GROUPS TOWARDS BETTER PATH TO WORKING LIFE.
SUPPORT STUDENTS
Vocational special needs education and training organisation will use their platform to support their students with various work experiences (including work practises).
SUPPORT SENIORS
Connecting seniors who offer professional services to companies. Platform is supporting their retirement with meaningful work and getting extra earning.
SUPPORT IMMIGRANTS
Platform is matching immigrants to selected industries who need new workforce – with the help of short term tasks target is to find them permanent jobs.
OTHER Case EXAMPLES
THREE ASSOCIATIONS OF PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLE ENABLING “SUITABLE JOBS FOR ALL”
ENABLING LOW THREHOLD OPPORTUNITIES
Own platform ”Suitable work for all” where tasks are tailored to the needs and skills of those who are physically disabled.
Target to enable short-term tasks to their target groups to open the path to working life and get concrete working experiences to also support their training programs
Initially done with one large NGO and later other NGO’s working for the same purpose joined the platform.
PLATFORMS FOR PROFESSIONAL PRO-BONO WORK AND
ASSISTANCE TO DISABLED
PROFESSIONAL SPARRING TO NGO’S
New platform was created to Social Sector’s roof organisation to support social sector NGO's in Finland in their internal operation needs. NGO’s can post a question or other sparring need e.g. relating to HR, financing, communications or public funding to other social sector NGO workers and thus get easily support from each other.
ASSITANCE TO DISABLED PEOPLE
Service is used for disabled people who are entitled to personal assistant but during their absences it is challenging to get a replacement. With the platform replacement assistant can be found quickly.