According to a recent study by Manpower, 81% of young people in the region have had difficulty finding jobs in the last 12 months, and those with ongoing training in technological and soft skills are those with the greatest employment opportunities.

The meeting was attended by companies and organizations interested in hiring young people trained by the Oportunidades program, as well as universities allied with the program, who offer scholarships in their institutions, and as a special highlight, certificates were awarded to more than 50 young graduates of the Workeys by Oportunidades certification.

This online and interactive certification has the objective of training 16 soft skills, in 9 months of duration and with three levels of difficulty. The process is carried out under the constant accompaniment of the team of trainers, continuously encouraging them to grow in competencies and criteria, so that they are the protagonists of their training.

With this certification for employment, Oportunidades once again takes a step forward by involving technology and remote training in its processes, and presents Workeys in its improved version.

"Workeys 2.0 by Oportunidades is a virtual version of an employability certification, which does not lose sight of its objectives, but innovates in its methodology and teaching tools", explained Juana Jule, executive director of the Fundación Gloria de Kriete and director of the Oportunidades program.

In the “Conexiones para el Empleo” event, three programs of the Foundation participated in a conversation, in which they deepened about the strategies that each one has to use the information they receive from their alliances with hiring companies and create methodologies, curricula and a training system that guarantees the placement of their talents.

In a second part of the meeting, Matthew Rees, Acting Director of USAID/El Salvador and Roberto Kriete, President of the Foundation, spoke about the importance of investing in programs that develop job skills and their high impact on the development of a country.

Recently the Oportunidades program announced its expansion, thanks to the joint investment being made with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an entity that invests in education for social and economic support through education with a focus on employability.

Kódigo, a programming academy, also participated. It is training talent in the technological field and placing them in leading companies in the country; and Capacítate para el empleo, presented its complementary training programs for the internal talent of companies, as well as learning routes designed for people to acquire new technical skills in new fields or to specialize more in the economic fields to which they belong.

At the event it was also announced that FGK recently closed an alliance with Vision Education with the objective of launching LearnMatch in El Salvador, a free language app for all salvadorans.

LearnMatch incorporates the most advanced studies to make language learning easier and more fun by promoting, through a sports theme, vocabulary practice and social interaction through competitions both locally, and internationally.

The app offers dictionary, translator and personalized courses in 6 languages, English, German, French, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese. At the end of the first semester, after being launched at the end of 2020, LearnMatch already has 40,000 users.