Lebanon’s positive experience in helping students get quality jobs, and its applicability to countries in similar situations, was the key takeaway from the European Training Foundation’s (ETF’s) online conversation ‘Career guidance for learners in fragile contexts: an example from Lebanon’, on Thursday 24 November.
Participants with an interest in human capital development from Albania, Algeria, Georgia, Greece, Italy, and North Macedonia, among others, generated numerous searching questions for the panel from Lebanon.
The panel’s guest speakers included Houssam El Hajj, Focal Point, Central Directorate for Vocational Education and Training (VET); Elias Geagea, Guidance and Employment Officer at Institut technique Edde-Jbeil, and Kevin Akiki, former beneficiary of career guidance and currently Installation Supervisor at Jamesway chick master incubators company.