So if job seekers’ wellbeing is low, and they don’t have the right skills to overcome the barriers they face, how do we expect them to find a job and keep it?
The skills job seekers really need
More traditional forms of soft skills include communication, teamwork, and problem-solving, which are important once a person is employed. But before a person can achieve the goal of meaningful and sustainable employment, they need to be psychologically prepared.
Psychological work readiness indicators are a category of soft skills that include confidence, self-esteem, resilience, self-efficacy and life satisfaction. When job seekers are able to build and develop these specific psychological work readiness skills, they are better prepared to find work.
The trial results showed that the Bounce Program improves the psychological work-readiness of job seekers, with the most significant gains in confidence, resilience and satisfaction with life.
Bounce Program internal data re-enforces these finding with results demonstrating positive improvement in participants overall wellbeing.
The results show:
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