Job Shadow Day

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Gain Creators / Outcomes

  • The project facilitates the transfer of information and knowledge from the business sector directly to students, providing an easy way for businesses to convey the skills needed for their future employees, highlight the array of available jobs in their specific area and mentor the next generation.
  • Helps impact the career choices of young talents
  • Flexible time commitment for business volunteers
  • Impactful short-time engagement for companies and employees

  • The project facilitates the transfer of information and knowledge from the business sector directly to students, providing an easy way for businesses to convey the skills needed for their future employees, highlight the array of available jobs in their specific area and mentor the next generation.
  • Helps impact the career choices of young talents
  • Flexible time commitment for business volunteers
  • Impactful short-time engagement for companies and employees

Gains / Needs

Businesses need to:

  • have a pool of well qualified students from which they can select their future employees,
  • raise awareness of potential job opportunities in their sector and attract young talent,
  • be in touch with students and understand what their needs are in terms of skills development.

Businesses need to:

  • have a pool of well qualified students from which they can select their future employees,
  • raise awareness of potential job opportunities in their sector and attract young talent,
  • be in touch with students and understand what their needs are in terms of skills development.

Target Group

Businesses (all sizes and sectors)

Businesses (all sizes and sectors)

Implementation Method

Companies should get in touch with JA offices and express availability to get involved in the programme. JA will coordinate the recruitment process for JA alumni that will shadow the company’s leaders and organise the logistics around the day.

Companies should get in touch with JA offices and express availability to get involved in the programme. JA will coordinate the recruitment process for JA alumni that will shadow the company’s leaders and organise the logistics around the day.

Job Shadow Day

Job Shadow is a mentor program where students spend a day with a professional at his/her workplace.  During the day students gain an understanding of business culture, work ethic, and career choice. 

The goal is to enable young people to make better informed career choices, enlarge their network and improve their career opportunities. This experience inspires young people to be entrepreneurial and allows them to learn the essential skills that will make them valuable assets to any employer and will help them in the transition from education to the world of work.  

Leaders-for-a-Day European event

Leaders-for-a-Day provides young people who have completed entrepreneurship education programmes from across Europe with the opportunity to learn from a leader by shadowing him/her for one day. The goal is to enable young people to make better informed career choices, enlarge their network and improve their career opportunities. This experience inspires young people to be entrepreneurial and allows them to learn the essential skills that will make them valuable assets to any employer and will help them in the transition from education to the world of work.

Leaders-for-a-Day is dedicated to better prepare young people for the labour market by engaging them in a comprehensive real life work experience that will:

  • Demonstrate the connection between education and successful careers.
  • Introduce young people to the requirements of the labour market and help them to build the skills they need to succeed in a 21st century workplace.
  • Encourage mentoring between young people and experienced professionals; help them expand their network and position them better to enter the labour market.
  • Inspire a shared responsibility across all sectors for the development of a skilled, adaptable, and successful workforce that will contribute to a dynamic and competitive economy.

JA Alumni who have been in the Company Programme and have successfully obtained the Entrepreneurial Skills Pass (ESP) will be selected to join the Leaders-for-a-Day in Brussels. Each of them will shadow a leader for one working day.  Initiative features:

  • 40 young leaders (JA alumni) and 40 leaders
  • different organisations - international corporations, SMEs and EU institutions
  • Leaders-for-a-Day Warm-up session (pre-event activity for the young people).
  • Leaders-for-a-Day Celebration Cocktail

Job Shadow is a mentor program where students spend a day with a professional at his/her workplace.  During the day students gain an understanding of business culture, work ethic, and career choice. 

The goal is to enable young people to make better informed career choices, enlarge their network and improve their career opportunities. This experience inspires young people to be entrepreneurial and allows them to learn the essential skills that will make them valuable assets to any employer and will help them in the transition from education to the world of work.  

Leaders-for-a-Day European event

Leaders-for-a-Day provides young people who have completed entrepreneurship education programmes from across Europe with the opportunity to learn from a leader by shadowing him/her for one day. The goal is to enable young people to make better informed career choices, enlarge their network and improve their career opportunities. This experience inspires young people to be entrepreneurial and allows them to learn the essential skills that will make them valuable assets to any employer and will help them in the transition from education to the world of work.

Leaders-for-a-Day is dedicated to better prepare young people for the labour market by engaging them in a comprehensive real life work experience that will:

  • Demonstrate the connection between education and successful careers.
  • Introduce young people to the requirements of the labour market and help them to build the skills they need to succeed in a 21st century workplace.
  • Encourage mentoring between young people and experienced professionals; help them expand their network and position them better to enter the labour market.
  • Inspire a shared responsibility across all sectors for the development of a skilled, adaptable, and successful workforce that will contribute to a dynamic and competitive economy.

JA Alumni who have been in the Company Programme and have successfully obtained the Entrepreneurial Skills Pass (ESP) will be selected to join the Leaders-for-a-Day in Brussels. Each of them will shadow a leader for one working day.  Initiative features:

  • 40 young leaders (JA alumni) and 40 leaders
  • different organisations - international corporations, SMEs and EU institutions
  • Leaders-for-a-Day Warm-up session (pre-event activity for the young people).
  • Leaders-for-a-Day Celebration Cocktail

Activities

  • 1 day where the student shadows the employee through his/her normal working day. A visit through the working space is recommended as well as interaction with different departments within the company.
  • Preparation of the student beforehand so he/she reflects on what should be the learning outcomes of the day

  • 1 day where the student shadows the employee through his/her normal working day. A visit through the working space is recommended as well as interaction with different departments within the company.
  • Preparation of the student beforehand so he/she reflects on what should be the learning outcomes of the day

Resources

  • Employees that can dedicate a day to be “shadowed”
  • Students prepared for the experience
  • Organisation/institution to coordinate the matching process and preparation on both parties

  • Employees that can dedicate a day to be “shadowed”
  • Students prepared for the experience
  • Organisation/institution to coordinate the matching process and preparation on both parties

Pain Relievers / Solutions

  • Activity is easy to implement
  • The programme enables companies to present their opportunities to young talent and help them make a link between their education and potential job opportunities within the sector

  • Activity is easy to implement
  • The programme enables companies to present their opportunities to young talent and help them make a link between their education and potential job opportunities within the sector

Pains / Challenges

  • Time constrictions to get involved in educational projects
  • Companies don’t always have the chance to showcase the array of opportunities available for young talents
  • Young people don’t always see the link between their education and potential job opportunities

  • Time constrictions to get involved in educational projects
  • Companies don’t always have the chance to showcase the array of opportunities available for young talents
  • Young people don’t always see the link between their education and potential job opportunities

JA Europe Leaders-for-a-Day

 Leaders-for-a-Day is dedicated to better prepare young people for the labour market by engaging them in a comprehensive real life work experience that will:

  • Demonstrate the connection between education and successful careers.
  • Introduce young people to the requirements of the labour market and help them to build the skills they need to succeed in a 21st century workplace.
  • Encourage mentoring between young people and experienced professionals; help them expand their network and position them better to enter the labour market.
  • Inspire a shared responsibility across all sectors for the development of a skilled, adaptable, and successful workforce that will contribute to a dynamic and competitive economy.

Various countries in Europe are implementing this project locally. To find out where the project is implemented contact JA Europe at info@jaeurope.org

Here is what business leaders had to say about their experience being shadowed by a JA Alumnus:

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