Ta’alam: Guiding MENA Youth to Better Employment Outcomes
Drosos Foundation 2017 – 2024 |
Through FORSA, the Ta’alam project aimed to help marginalized young people transition into sustainable, productive employment in Jordan and five other MENA countries. This project was designed to provide unprecedented access to the skills, knowledge, and information that young people need to build their professional capacity, find a job, create their own job, and/or improve their economic and employment potential.
The below are among the services that were developed and established under this project:
- Developing and launching an online personality/aptitude test
- Developing and launching an online 1-to-1 career counseling support system
- Developing and launching a directory of specialties
- Developing and launching a directory of organizations and institutions
- Developing and launching FORSA courses portal
- Developing and launching paid FORSA courses module
- Recruiting content providing organizations
- Developing Ads and paid services revenue generating module
- Launching Souq Fann (souqfann.com), a new e-commerce portal for locally-made handicrafts
- Planning and executing a large scale on ground career fair that had +5000 attendees








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