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Overview

USAID Pakistan Jobs Project will support the establishment of a network of local, financially sustainable Career Service Centers and provide the following:

• training to a fulltime “Career Guidance staff” to facilitate work with the students in the institution;
• necessary equipment (e.g., computers with basic software, room equipment and materials) to facilitate recruitment and placement of students and other users of career centers;
• facilitate skill-training for jobseekers in areas identified as “in demand”.

Objectives

Objectives include:

• set up model of Career Services Centers (CSCs) based upon the specific interests and capacities of interested host organizations
• identify hosts who will provide a comfortable environment catering to the specific needs of the young women and easily accessible to male and female youth,
• act as an entry point for young graduates, the unemployed, and other job applicants into the range of employment services and systems

Expected Core Outcomes

It is expected that, by the end of the five-year project, the Career Service Centers will have:

• scaled the program to 50 CSCs, based on assessment of the most promising programs after having pilot tested a variety of approaches chosen through a competitive bidding process in the first year of the project,