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| The program of the Department of Youth has continued to provide its usual services, adapting to the new realities of users and companies | The Return of Talent to Cartagena program of the Department of Youth has continued to develop its work during the State of Alarm and health crisis by COVID-19, as it had been doing until now, and has had the incorporation of a new collaborating company .Thus, the company Metalox Cartagena SL, dedicated for 25 years to industrial and naval assembly and maintenance, will welcome returnees from the program to its facilities.

During the State of Alarm, the collaboration with Metalox has allowed the hiring of Mª José Sánchez, who has been able to return from Germany, where she worked as a welder, and who has already joined the team of the Cartagena company.This hiring case is added to the services that the program usually offers and that it has maintained during the State of Alarm due to the health crisis of COVID-19, which include orientation, support, prospecting and dissemination of the program, actions that have been adapted to the current situation, becoming aware of the difficulties and the strategic changes of the companies and collaborating entities, as well as the situation that the young users of this initiative of the council that David Martínez is running are going through.In this way, the program has been able to continue developing its service at defined hours and with the usual work rhythm, since much of its activity is carried out in telework format.

Despite this, to guarantee the safety of the participants, actions involving physical interaction between people have been interrupted, such as meetings, meetings, face-to-face interviews and visits.These types of actions have been modified, prioritizing telematic means (email, telephone, WhatsApp, LinkedIn or Skype) and, as a novelty, contact with users has been intensified through videoconferences, as two virtual meetings that have been conducted On the one hand, young people who are abroad and, on the other, young people who have returned in the last six months.In addition, content of interest to users and companies has been offered from the program's website, such as CV preparation, time management, CSR and Sustainability or recommendations to prevent the spread of COVID-19, as well as webinars on LinkedIn, activation for the employment, soft skills and job interviews by videoconference.Currently, the database has 140 users and 80 collaborating companies, and 80 job offers from all sectors and professional profiles are managed today (mainly in relation to engineering, business administration and management, scientific professions, marketing and telecommunications)."Since the launch of the program, with the launch of the website in February 2019, 26 users have obtained an employment contract, of which 17 have joined collaborating companies," said David Martínez, who has evaluated the hiring that has been carried out during the State of Alarm as "one more example of the great work being done from this service to put our young people in contact with the companies in Cartagena".All the activity developed is articulated through its website and through its LinkedIn profile, which in six months of operation has reached 1,300 followers.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena