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Training and Employment Exposure Scheme (TEES)

TEES_ESF.JPGThrough this project the Employment and Training Corporation have supported unemployed persons who are over forty years of age and provided them with training and work exposure.

 

The participants joined the scheme for a period of one year which was divided into different phases consisting in training and work exposure with an employer. During the first phase the participants went through a core skills training programme highlighting motivation and self-esteem. They also went through an exercise of skills sampling and aptitude testing to identify their job inclinations. In the second phase the participants spent 20 hours a week for 21 weeks on specific training in a skill or trade selected and on demand in the labour market.

 

During the final phase the participants were engaged with an employer for a 40 hour week work exposure for 27 weeks. The final aim being that their performance would be so good that the employer would offer them full employment by the end of the scheme.

 

The objectives of this project were:

  • to convince employers that employees over 40 years of age can give very efficient and productive work, and value the concept that ‘experience pays’;
  • to re-train unemployed workers over the age of 40 years in areas where they can be reintegrated in the labour market.

This project proved to be a positive experience for both the participants and the employers. The employers found the scheme an ideal opportunity to train the participants on the job thus accustom them to the firm’s particular requirements. It provided the participants with the opportunity of receiving both generic and specific training and eventually the possibility of full time employment. Out of the 460 participants 237 participants were kept in employment by their employers, 40 found other work during the scheme and 8 got self-employed. The rest of the participants either returned to the unemployment register or dropped off the scheme.

 

The total cost of this project was €3,642,547 out of which €2, 731,910 were EU Funds under the European Social Fund Programme.
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