Thirty companies join forces in Buenos Aires to boost youth employability

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

Some 30 multinationals met again, invited by Nestlé, to renew the commitment made at the end of last year for the employability of Mercosur youth.

It is a global initiative carried out by the aforementioned expert firm in food, and that at the end of 2018 it officially arrived in the region after a presentation in Montevideo (Uruguay).

In that instance, at the summit of 30 multinationals, the challenge was posed of creating 40,000 job positions to insert young people from Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil into the world of work by the year 2020.

This is how the "Alliance for Youth of Mercosur" was formed, which now had a new "summit" at the local level in the offices of Nestlé in Buenos Aires at the end of May.

The main purpose of the meeting was to share good practices and identify new work projects in common.

"With the conviction that future generations will be the leaders of tomorrow, we have met to give continuity to the goal we set ourselves to achieve when we signed the Mercosur Youth Employability Agreement: that 40,000 young people had opportunities for professional development in the countries that they integrate it towards 2020," said Gian Carlo Aubry, CEO of Nestlé for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

"We are very happy to be able to participate in this Alliance that provides meaningful tools for young people to develop and access better job opportunities," said Francisco Martínez Domene, CEO of the Adecco Group for Argentina & Uruguay, a talent firm that also It is part of this group of companies in the region.

On behalf of the Adecco Group, Francisco Martínez Domene, CEO for Argentina & Uruguay, and Ana Inés Montanari, Public Affairs LATAM participated. "Young people are the future and all of us who make up this agreement share the same vision and commitment to value this collective that has so much value for companies," added Martinez Domene.

Also Juan Pablo Cubillas, HR Cluster Business Partner of Tetra Pak, participated in this meeting on behalf of the packaging company, and told iProfesional: "Tetra Pak is proud to be part of the Mercosur Youth Employability Agreement and together with Different companies give young people the opportunity to develop in the workplace, providing them with tools that provide them with solutions for the challenges of the future and in this way contribute positively in their careers."

Regarding the initiatives within this multinational with which they have already begun to collaborate to achieve the objectives of youth employability, Cubillas highlighted the Future Talent program, "as well as positions planned in the different Mercosur countries that may contribute to meet the objective of the Alliance for Youth."

After having met, the owners of this group of companies in Buenos Aires took ideas and commitments to begin to deploy in the country the concrete actions to reach the 40,000 job positions for young people. And this same meeting was also repeated in each of the countries that make up the Alliance.

Work 4.0

The initiative of the Alliance is based on statistics from the World Economic Forum, which show that more than 60% of children who are entering elementary school today will have jobs that do not exist today.

In this framework, the 30 member companies reaffirm the joint challenge of helping these young people acquire the necessary skills to thrive in the world of work, not only in the present, but also in the future.

Nestlé founded the Global Alliance for Youth in Europe in 2014, with the purpose of helping them prepare to enter the professional world, subsequently expanding to the Pacific countries in 2017 (Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru).

In 2018, the alliance became consolidated in Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), promising to offer more than 40,000 professional development opportunities for young people in the countries involved by the year 2020.

As of today, the 30 companies that signed the Mercosur Youth Employability Agreement are ADBlick, Adecco Group, Adecoagro, Andreani, APEXAmerica, Arla Foods, Braskem, BUNGE, Cargill, CIEE, Clariant, Facebook, FarmaShop, Ferrere, Givaudan , GS1, Kuehne & Nagel, Louis Dreyfus Company, Manpower, Mercer, Mc Cain, Nestle, Nielsen, Our Lady of the Assumption, Owen Illinois, Publicis, Roche, Sodexo, Syngenta, TetraPack.

This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.

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