Having researched for setting up a job club network, I now appreciate how much I did not know before I started and how much I want/need to know - to be really effective. (No course was available - I should say that I did not find one!) If I were to work up a course syllabus I would want to understand who are the end-users (members of job clubs) and what are their requirements. Here one is into niche marketing.
So far my research suggests end-users will be categorised in no particular order as :
- return-to-work mothers;
- graduates seeking employment or internships;
- school-leavers wanting apprenticeships;
- inventors wanting to protect their ideas (patents, etc) and then licence-out or start-up a business etc;
- those with a product or service idea who want to start a business;
- recently or not recently unemployed wanting to get employment;
- those with a small business wanting to develop or to expand;
- keen-to-work persons with disabilities or health problems;
- former business owners wanting to move into employment;
- individuals at the first or a later threshold working life and without an inkling of the potential for themselves in the world of work; and,
- etc, etc.
A syllabus-deliverer has his or her work cut out to create a course for job club leaders where each will have that mix of group! Is it feasible to have such a mix...?
Today (9 January 2012) I found information about a USAID course for job club leaders in Argentina. Must now seek details of the syllabus!
http://mazedonien-nachrichten.blogspot.com/2011/12/job-club-re-opens-in-strumica.html
