The Most In-Demand Skills in the labor market highlighted during a workshop in Damascus
On the occasion of the International Youth Skills Day, the Human Resources Foundation held a workshop under the title “The Most In-Demand Skills in the Labor Market”, at the Foundation’s headquarters in Damascus on July 15.
The workshop axes focused on future jobs and the requirements for entering them into the labor market, the importance of basic scientific research skills, artificial intelligence fields, graphic design and photography.
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Mounir Abbas stated that the workshop aims to shed light on the business and skills that the labor market needs, and how to refine the skills it needs, and to introduce the current and future labor market.
He added that it is necessary to introduce young people to how to display their skills and present them in the labor market through the required technical skills.
He pointed out that the foundation will set a list of 16 skills related to the labor market in Syria to train youth on it, indicating that more than 1,800 people have been trained during the current year on the skills related to the labor market.
The official in charge of scientific studies at one of the pharmaceutical industries companies, Nermin El-Sheikh, reviewed in her lecture the most important ideas related to the completion of scientific research, and issues related to training on the positive impact while working in companies.
A number of young participats stressed the importance of integration between academic education and vocational training in terms of possessing the required knowledge and skills according to the needs of the labor market.
The International Youth Skills Day in 2023 focuses on the importance of training coaches and youth for a better future, and highlighting the effort exerted by teachers to enhance the basic skills of youth that lead them to excellence in the labor market.
It is noteworthy that the United Nations General Assembly announced in 2014 that the 15th of July of each year marks a global day for youth skills, with the aim of enhancing the strategy of providing young people with the necessary skills, to employ them and enable them to obtain decent work.
- al-Mohammad