, a Spanish company that creates a unique method for learning languages, has launched the #DesempleoCero initiative, a campaign that aims to provide help to the 3.3 million unemployed in Spain so they can find a job. The company gives everyone who requests an English learning course focused, in a special way, on getting an impeccable job interview.
The campaign proposal is as follows:
The call is open from now, with no deadline.
The course can be accessed by all the unemployed registered with the SEPE (State Public Employment Service), regardless of how long they have been unemployed, age, profession, etc., with the only requirement to indicate the renewal date and the address of their office of request.
The course lasts three months and is focused on achieving an impeccable job interview.
All applicants can take it, regardless of their level of English.
The course is online through the 8Belts.com e-learning platform, accessible from any device: computer, tablet or mobile phone.
The student is the one who regulates the hours he dedicates without any limit: from the recommended minimum of 20 minutes a day to one hour each day, with the aim of achieving a perfect interview in English.
According to the data for the first quarter of the EPA (Active Population Survey), Spain already has 3,354,200 unemployed, a figure that, in percentages, includes those over 45 years of age, women and households in which they do not work nobody. On the other hand, using data from the CIS (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas), one in three job offers requires knowledge of a foreign language: speaking English is an essential requirement in 92% of cases.
Faced with this data, only 28% of the adult population in Spain claims to master that language. But the most remarkable thing is that almost 46% of Spaniards do not speak any foreign language. A worrying figure that places Spain well below the European average.
Fluency in English is essential to open the doors to professional development in Spain. “We have a clear deficit in the knowledge of languages in our country for multiple reasons: cultural, educational system, historical… but the reality is that they have led us to quote below our real professional capacities”, explains Adolfo Álvarez, general director of 8 Belts. And he adds that “8Belts has shown that you can learn a language in eight months and we wanted to combine in this initiative our main promise to our clients with a social project that aims to support one of the groups that needs the most help in this regard. It is a campaign that is open to other organizations that want to join the commitment to achieve #ZeroUnemployment for our country. I think the role that private companies can play to help more than 3.3 million fellow citizens who are having a hard time is relevant “.
8Belts.com is a company created from its own unique method to study languages. The company guarantees that you can learn to speak a language in eight months with a way of studying based on the real dynamics of practicing a language as opposed to the usual academic methods. Its methodology, developed from extensive research by a team of linguists, is already applied to English, Chinese, German and French.
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