Alguazas Township is having exemplary behavior in youth job creation in the last 12 months, since, according to the latest official data collected by the Ministry of Employment and Social Security on registered unemployment in the age range of the neighbors under 25, in the town has grown from 128 young unemployed in August 2011 at 85 a year later.
A decrease of 6.64% which is punctuated by existing landscape of today regionally where increased jobs for those under 25 years is 9.33%.
By contrast, in the national youth unemployment has grown in the last year by 4.5% the rate of youth unemployment is unemployment ranking as the second largest in the European Union as a whole (52.9% ), second only to that of Greece (53.8%).
If you stick to the age groups included in the groups of 25 to 29 years, 20 to 24 and under 20 years, the youth unemployment rate reflects Alguazas like reaching a 4.75% reduction.
As explained by the Councillor Training and Employment Alguazas Consistory, Isabel Zamora Palacios, "These data confirm the downward trend in the number of young unemployed began a year ago, which should motivate us even more to continue working on the same direction and continue to invest in technical training and assistance in job search and self-employment, which is one of the top priorities of the City Council, that of engaging with all means at our disposal to support young people who have been those who have been most directly harmed by the crisis. "
Palacios Zamora still claims that "from this Council are promoting at all times and place initiatives to provide better opportunities for young people, to strengthen, in a word, their education, employability and entrepreneurship."
And this strategy is based, among other tasks, active in the work performed by the Local Development Agency, attached to the Department of Training and Employment alguaceño Hall, captured in dynamic job search and career counseling, job channeling unemployed or commissioning this year in the town, for example, of 11 employability training workshops benefit from their practical training over 200 students who have had the opportunity to access a directory of content ranging from shooting advertising and promotional ads on the town, ancillary activities in nurseries, gardens and garden centers, handle fruit and vegetable industries, emotional intelligence, first aid and basic life support, life guards or training to pesticide treatments in basic to such tasks as a food handler, internet (using web browsers and search engines to search for employment), training of entrepreneurs and self-employed or the renewable energy technician covering all these practices a class calendar encryption in a total of 800 classroom hours learning .
It should be noted that youth unemployment has increased by 50% in recent years in Europe by the effects of the crisis and more than 30% of young people are unemployed in Europe over a year without work, even with all the European average Youth unemployment stands at 15%.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alguazas