Resilience: Cultivating Emotional Resilience among Youth to Boost their Employment Prospects

This report highlights the importance of emotional resilience to cope with the rapidly changing nature of work. The report highlights six strategies to cultivate emotional resilience among youth: (i) using a hybrid approach to enhance both coping and thriving abilities in schools; (ii) restoring refugees’ self-agency & ‘making meaning’ mindset; (iii) incorporating resilience-building strategies in traditional interventions that support entrepreneurs; (iv) adopting low cost, self-directed, digital interventions to support youth at scale in difficult times; (v) adopting mindfulness to release stress and increase self-awareness when engaged in fast learning and high-pressure environments; and (vi) designing work readiness training journeys that integrate both technical and socio-emotional skills.