The main goal of NetMe-In is to help young people far from employment (such as NEETs) finding their place in the Jobsmarket by including them in appropriate Professional Social Networks, managing efficiently their Digital professional Identity (DPI) and supporting them through more efficient accompaniment networks. The access to NEETs is not easy; they are often far from the usual circuits. NetMe-In has chosen to work with the usual (and less usual) “intermediaries” who can have access to these Young people in difficulties, and are able to help them to get back on track into the “Journey to work”, meanwhile getting tips and tricks about making a good first impression and the perfect selfie.

Are you a Job Seeker ?

Do you need to: (re)build self-esteem and trust; value experiences (precarious jobs, interim, summer jobs, family business, sports, etc.); value Web 2.0 literacy in applying these competences to manage a “profession” DPI and get access to the job market?

Are you a Young Jobseeker, An Employment Counsellor or a Recruiter: Find out what NetMe-In can do for You? The video below shows what professional social media networks can do for you, as a young person to get a job and kickstart your career !

First Impression

First impressions of social traits, such as trustworthiness or dominance, are reliably perceived in faces, and despite their questionable validity they can have considerable real-world consequences. We sought to uncover the information driving such judgments, using an attribute-based approach. Attributes (physical facial features) were objectively measured from feature positions and colors in a database of highly variable “ambient” face photographs, and then used as input for a neural network to model factor dimensions (approachability, youthful-attractiveness, and dominance) thought to underlie social attributions.

Researchers at the Department of Psychology at University of York analysed 1,000 images of faces in order to find the specific facial tics and features that help make a good first impression. The research was on 3 themes:

1. Approachability –“Does this person want to help or harm me?”

2. Dominance – “Can this person help or harm me?”

3. Youthful-attractiveness – etc.

Richard Vernon
PhD student in the Department of Psychology

If you want to read to full article of the University of York, click here Ofcourse has NetMe-In some tips and tricks for you. We would imagine you would be very interested ‘how to make the perfect #Selfie ! So what should you do to make a chill selfie?

Below the Chill Picture Check List:

1. Smile with teeth
2. Dark-colored suits, light colored button downs
3. Jawline with a shadow
4. Head-and-shoulders, or head-to-waist photo
5. Squinch – Please watch the amazing ‘ Peter Hurley’ Video below
6. Asymmetrical composition
7. Unobstructed eyes

Building your professional Profile

Building your personal profile or your digital professional identity (DPI) means starting from the reflection on yourself to be able to present yourself at the best to others. Your e-profile must valorize your personal and professional experiences.

An e-profile is:

• A personal experience folder
• A list of skills, evidence, documents
• A portrait

Build a list of your educational, social and professional experiences as exhaustive as possible. Do not neglect experiences and skills that seem banal to you! Once the list is ready, cross it with your “life story”, with your recent and current activities. For each  identified competency, try to define your level of “performance” (general knowledge, use of terminology, operational control, knowledge transmission, innovation and creation, …). We will publish soon some video’s about I-Branding in our next blog/article around social media profiling  and branding a DPI.

Everywhere in Europe, young people have difficulties to find a job. The challenge is even more serious for those of them who have less or no diploma, and a lower level of education or qualification. The pathway to a job is a real journey across agencies, offices, advisement or guidance structures, counsellors, family, peers, …In the same time, the structure and nature of employment is drastically changing. The digital era is one of radical evolution, both for the jobs and for the way to access them. The Final Conference NetMe-In on 12th June 2018 in Paris, addressed this in an excellent way: A Review:

For years it has been experienced through projects and in different kind of structures and territories, that accompaniment was a key process to enable and sustain the journey to work of those who have more difficulties. NetMe-In builds upon a series of previous projects that paved the road towards improvements of the journey to work and of the accompaniment processes. One key aspect of theses evolutions is related to the more and more dominant role of the digital social media in this journey to work, and in the support of accompaniment.

NetMe-In deals with Networks of Accompaniment:

“real life networks” made of all people who, at territorial level, have a role to play in opening, eliciting, and facilitating the road to word, and in setting the beacons that will enable people to become more confident and more able to reach success. “digital life networks” which are becoming the essential link between the jobs, the companies, the recruiters, the agencies, the families, etc. and the job seekers; by enabling the young people to present their experiences, as informal as they could be, and to speak about themselves in a positive and proactive way, they initiate possible steps to bridge the gap between the person and the job position in the company.

Working in Networks requires to tie long lasting relationships between actors which favors a better understanding, a richer mutual knowledge, a more fruitful appreciation. Including the young people in this web of relations and knowledge from the start makes it possible to reveal the potentials of people way beyond formal CVs and competence descriptions.

The NetMe-In final conference in Paris, France confronted the NetMe-In outcomes with other works, projects and ideas; and iniated a debate among actors; to propose common recommendations to further develop concrete actions; to influence new policy development at Regional and European level regarding the “#JourneyToWork” for Young people at risk; to evidence new beacons to enlighten the “Journey to Work” and help all actors to better navigate it.

The NetMe-In Final Conference prooved to be a unique opportunity to:

 – share the findings and outcomes capitalised from the works (such as the workshops around the #BrandI, NMI Board Game, storytelling for employment to see a list of all the results and activities, click here) of the project partners and field actors;

– open the access to a new audiences coming from different horizons – researchers, professionals, decision makers, social partners, groups of Young People, who were maybe nor directly implied in the project, other European Networks acting in related fields, etc.;

– broaden the scope and meaning of NetMe-In conclusions;

– get more knowledge by including more experiences, practices, reflexions, etc.;- discover more opportunities for sustainability, by finding other audiences or territories that could appropriate our outcomes and implement them in their context;

– develop new paths of cooperation and set the basis for new partnership and possible new projects.

For more information about this amazing #NetMeIn project, click here

The NetMe-In project is delivering her first results… Currently the NetMe-In project is having a meeting in Lyon, France, discussing the drafts and concepts (the micro caps and knowledge building caps). NetMe-In is initiated by European partners from France, Italy, Croatia, The Netherlands, Spain and Turkey and is a very good example of the digital society of today. This European project is focused on building a safe digital professional identity for the young jobseeker and how to marketeer yourself into the world of work.

Morning Session Lyon

During the morning sessions Lilianne Esnault and Axel Joder, Freref project managers  explained, what kind of results and what kind of Knowledge Buidling Caps have been delivered and will be delivered in the future. After the Lunch break the Youth sector of the Feyzin city (near Lyon) presented how to create a space for young people, made and shared by young people…

Knowledge Building Caps – What is Easy? What is Difficult; and how to tackle it?

Already a lot of knowledge Buidling Caps (KBS), call it concepts or try-outs of products – prototypes – were presented by the NetMe-In partners. Some KBCs were easy to set up and produce. Probably the most difficult to have experienced is working on a local and EU level as well, certainly as regards to the NEETs target group. Further it is clear that this target group don’t talk English (fluently). So we need to emphasize the importantance of sharing (e.g. Italian synchronization –Spanish/Catalan subtitles, etc.)

Another important question do the young people always understand the philosophy of the KBC. It is clear that a fantastic product (‘KBC’ is certainly not the word/acronym we should use) without any proper communication and/or dissemination  about the content of the KBC/idea, it will not have any impact … we need to use more common words like: drafts, concepts, manuals, guides, tools, blogs, articles… So good idea would be to present the KBC as a ‘draft’ or ‘concept’, presenting it through an article/blog. The NetMe-In project will soon present these on the open pages on the NetMe-In website as well (currently it’s still behind the NetMe-In intranet wall). As a preview, hereby a little peak, to give you an idea about the concept products produced, very much related to creating a Digital Professional Profile (DPI): About the ”squinch” (amazing YouTube Video by New York photographer Peter Hurley). Hereby also an article, previously published by Morwenna Ferrier in the Guardian dd 31 July 2015.

Learning Mobility Spain!

In March 2018 (19-23rd ) we will progress with a learning mobility meeting in Las Palmas. Soon more news about the agenda and concepts and drafts produced…

Social networks – whether professional or not – are used more and more in the recruitment process. If those with a high level of qualifications have very quickly understood and assimilated the codes of these new practices, this is not the case for a significant number of people in the employment market.

Author: Axel Joder

Looking more closely at the profiles of the people who make effective use of these new tools, we realise that the emphasis is not on qualifications, but on the individual’s experiences. Everyone has experiences, whether or not they are formal; the point is

therefore to present these personal experiences in the digital environment in such a way as to promote employability with potential employers, regardless of the level of qualification.

This is the starting point of the NetMe-In project, funded by the Erasmus+ programme, and implemented in six countries (Croatia, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Turkey) by  ten partners.

The aim is to provide a ’tool box’ of self-training modules available on-line (Knowledge Building Caps) on themes relating to digital technology and employment for three groups of people: those seeking employment, supporters and players in the business world. These KBCs are in the course of development. To construct this tool box, the project’s partners have set up local support networks in their regions, putting those three groups of people in contact with each other, so as to enable them to contribute to the completion of these modules by collating their experiences and testimonies. These local networks are expected to become working communities, as well as to contribute to the establishment of a European working community involved in giving support towards employment through the use of digital technology tools. These last, arising from a training mobility integrated in the project context, are open to all,  allowing everyone to discuss and share the ideas arising from each individual’s practices.

On 26 April 2017, within the context of the 4^th EPALE Conference in Paris on the impacts of digital technology on life-long learning, the NetMe-In project was presented to participants in the course of Explorcamps which helped to clarify the project’s issues, approach and current state of progress, while inviting interested persons to join the practising community.

This article has been published as a blog on the EPALE platform as wel. For more information, see also the project website: www.NETMEIN.eu and/or the Facebook pages and twitter account

This week we have scheduled the NetMe-In Learning Mobilities in Bologna and Modena, Italy. Loacal networks from France, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Turkey and the Netherlands will start a 5-day European expertise meeting around profesional social networks and the Digital Professonal Identity.

Click the link to see this week’s  Agenda Learning Mobility NetMeIn Modena Bologna

NetMe-In: Building Knowledge Caps

In our previous blog post about the NetMe-In project we have posted about the meeting in Rome. This is part 2 of the work done in Italy. We have discussed a lot about building the content and design of Knowledge Caps. The Knowledge Caps are small learning modules available on the Internet with concrete examples and situations; the goal is to foster and sustain less formal learning about the main issues tackled in NetMe-In. The general process will be kept as agile as possible, meaning that Knowledge Caps will be released continuously, trialled and improved in a short looping process according to the remarks of users.

A Knowledge Building Cap (KBC) can be made of: A learning objective; A set of expected learning outcomes; A script or scenario; A set of “microcaps” to illustrate the content like cartoons, videos, situations, etc.

Social Media Landscape Prisma – A NetMe-In PSN?

Examples of KBCs content are:

• Professional Social Networks (PSN) for recruiting

• Professional Social Networks as tools to build a successful professional career

• Professional Social Networksas learning Spaces

• How to create and manage one’s Digital Professional Identity (DPI) – including the points of view of Young People and the actors of accompaniment and actors of the economic world (AEW)

• Accompanying the accompaniment process around use of Professional Social Networks and management of Digital Identity for young people in difficulty

• Accompanying the insertion structures on the “Journey to Work” supported by Professional Social Networks

What is NetMe-In about?

The situation of employment of Young People in Europe is very poor, especially for those who are “nowhere” (NEETs). On the other hand, actions, initiatives, innovative practices arise on the field that are motivating and putting people on the move. It is important to foster such actions, propagate them towards different actors and territories, and built upon them, for another step forward. The “core mottos” of NetMe-In are: Professional Social Networks and Digital Professional Identity Management are key to access job market successfully Building knowledge informally and less formally enables to improve actors’ Web 2.0 professional literacy and sets the grounds for self-esteem, confidence, trust, and commitment Building Accompaniment Networks in Territories and Europe with all field actors is compelling to better accompany Young People in their “Journey to Work

How will this be achieved?

In NetMe-In, this will be achieved through three main threads of actions:

NetMe-In Meeting in progress Rome Italy 16-17 January 2017

• Support the building of Accompaniment Networks, at Regional and European levels;

• Support the broadcasting of Knowledge Caps to gain abilities in:

– creating and managing one’s Digital Professional Identity;

– valuing the outcomes or non-formal or less formal learning through experiences;

– accompanying people along complex pathways;

• Help Young People far from employment finding their place by including them through specific actions such as the NetMe-In Days (see France, Holland, etc. ), the buiding of Knowledge Caps, and Pilot Actions…

More about the NetMe-In meeting in Roma in our next blog post. This will be about knowledge Building Caps (KBCs)… It’s complicated, but we will explain !

Today the 2-day multilateral .@NetMe_In meeting in Rome kicked off.

Agenda-Rome-V2 NetMe-In

On January 16th -17th we will also keep you updated through Twitter:

@DFOIW2W @Freref2

@NETME_In @andreaascari

@Pietervschie

@CPdeVreij

NetMe-In meeting Rome in progress 16 /1/2017

In the period January 15th – 18th DFW2W travels to Rome, Italy. The NetMe-In Project Meeting in #Rome is arranged to discuss and monitor the progress of the project. A few topics which will be covered are the collabourative work on Knowledge Buidling Caps (KBCs) and the preperation activities for the Learning Mobility, which will take place later this year.

Netme-In Meeting Karlovac, Croatia – May 2016

As regards to the KBCs we will need to monitor what we have achieved so far ? – populating the forecasted KBCs with the microcaps
and other pieces of content (scripts, …) – and what is still missing? The Importantance of the coordination and organisation of the work for producing the KBCs wil be addressed by Monica Turrini (KBCs as learning modules – who wants to own what – who wants to contribute to what).

Click here for a full look at the agenda: Agenda-Rome-V2 NetMe-In

The organisation of NetMe-In Days is part of the 1st phase of the NETME-In Days. These NetMe-In days were held, in France, Holland, Croatia, Italy and Spain. The picture shown, is the NETME-In Day held in Paris, France by Cité des métiers of Paris. www.NETMEIN.EU