This brief report assesses the key soft skills that companies seek in entry-level employees and how they are delivered in service and retail industry training programs.
This guide is intended for use by countries seeking to build a sustainable tourism sector with a special focus on development programs that provide employment opportunities to youth ages 15-24.
In partnership with Hilton Worldwide, this report includes recommendations for the hospitality industry on ways to create career pathways for this emerging workforce while also meeting critical industry-wide hiring needs.
LifeSkills is a toolkit developed by Barclays aimed at teachers, parents and businesses to help young people build a job-hunting toolbox, identify skills and gain experience.
This brief describes the relationship between soft skills and workforce outcomes: getting a job, performance on the job, wages, and entrepreneurial success.
Developed by USAID, this guide is intended to assist policy makers and practitioners engaged in designing new in-country workforce development programs.
Developed by USAID, this guide provides practical suggestions and reference materials to improve youth livelihood development practices and to expand programming in this area.
This is a guide illustrating stakeholders to better understand core skills for employability, and teaching methodologies and training technique. It briefly describes key features of active labor market training programs for disadvantaged youth.
This paper aims to inform program design and improve the performance of current training programs. It emphasizes that the effectiveness of training programs for youth are higher when a "comprehensive" approach is taken and combined with supporting services.
This knowledge brief presents an abbreviated set of seven promising practices for youth workforce development programs, based on the existing evidence.
