Skill empowerment and employability of students will be developed – Mehr News Agency Iran and world’s news
According to the Mehr News Agency, citing the Ministry of Cooperation, Labor and Social Welfare, the tripartite cooperation memorandum of the Deputy of Entrepreneurship and Employment Development of the Ministry of Cooperation, Labor and Social Welfare, the Higher Institute of Labor and Social Security and Khwaja Nasiruddin Tousi University of Technology with the aim of empowering skills, entrepreneurship and Employability of students and graduates was concluded and signed. Mahmoud Karimi Biranvand, the vice president of entrepreneurship and employment development, said in this meeting: Universities should be the centers of guiding the country’s workforce, considering the capacities and facilities they have and with the cooperation and support of other related institutions.
Referring to the problems of providing employment services in the country, he added: The number of job opportunities in the country is not less than the number of job seekers, but the matching process is not happening well.
According to Karimi Biranvand, currently, the education and research path of universities is not connected to the country’s labor market, and although several measures have been taken in this regard, they have not had the necessary coherence.
He expressed his hope that this memorandum will become a good model for the employment of graduates in the country.
Facilitating the employment process
Rahim Sarhangi, the head of the Labor and Social Security Institute, considered it necessary to establish a relationship between the institutions providing employment services in the country and said: We are trying to facilitate the employment process by establishing a relationship between the institutions providing employment services.
Referring to the statements of the Supreme Leader during Labor Week and his emphasis on the importance of employment for university graduates, he said: In this regard, cooperation with universities and the signing of a memorandum of understanding to establish a relationship with the country’s employment policy center (Deputy for Entrepreneurship and Employment Development) and universities in We set an agenda.
Referring to the high unemployment rate of university graduates compared to the unemployment rate of the whole country, Serhangi added: One of the most important reasons for this is the lack of skills training for students and equipping graduates with the skills required by the country’s labor market.
He mentioned the Institute of Labor and Social Security as the intellectual and research arm of the Ministry of Labor and added: This institute tries to make the process of entering the university graduates into the labor market shorter and easier and provides the content needed in this regard with the cooperation of reputable and related centers. to do
Serhangi mentioned the launch of the country’s labor market comprehensive information system as one of the actions of the institute and the ministry in this regard and added: In this system, all the information needed by the country’s labor stakeholders will be available.
Supporting graduates to start a business
Hassan Karimi, the president of Khwaja Nasiruddin Tusi University, emphasized on supporting the graduates of the university in order to start a business and added: We hope this memorandum is a good start in this regard.
According to the provisions of this cooperation agreement, using the practical and skill training capacities of the Technical and Vocational Education Organization of the country with the aim of the process of empowerment and sustainable employment of the target community, granting priority facilities for starting and starting business and economic activity that creates employment for capable graduates, supporting and facilitating the obtaining of licenses and start-up Specialized employment in the university, cooperation in providing employment services, especially career and educational counseling and guidance by employment centers and entrepreneurship counseling service centers for students and graduates is one of the obligations of the Vice-Chancellor of Entrepreneurship Development and Employment of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare.
In this comprehensive and joint memorandum, cooperation in increasing students’ soft skills such as resume writing, job interview and development of individual competencies, financial and business literacy, team building, interaction management with others through content production, compilation and preparation of packages and resources, cooperation in creating Human resource accelerator for training and developing the capacity and ability of the country’s young forces to enter the entrepreneurial ecosystem, holding training and consulting courses on the axis of employability and entrepreneurship.boot camp) for university students and graduates, holding specialized exhibitions, especially exhibitions Industry-university And checking the achievements of university students and graduates by business owners and economic activists of the country and benefiting from the scientific ability of university professors in the relevant fields in the form of a think tank is the responsibility of the Labor and Social Security Institute.
According to this memorandum, including the commitments of Khwaja Nasiruddin Tosi University of Technology, it is also possible to inform and hold specialized work exhibitions, events Startup Entrepreneurial and job-creating, it is necessary to have access to statistics and information necessary to plan executive actions and benefit from the capacities of professors and faculty of the university to provide consulting services and expert opinions.
Also, among the joint commitments of this memorandum, we can mention the development of joint agendas related to the agreed topics, cooperation in financing and support of joint measures and programs, and cooperation in content production, compilation and preparation of educational packages and resources.