With an investment of 4.5 million euros, the works of the Center for Orientation and Entrepreneurship (COE) of Melilla, located in Calle Pablo Vallescá, a center that will start operating soon, have been completed.
It was announced by the Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, who accompanied by the Provincial Director of the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE), Gemma Torres, visited the facilities this morning.
“This Center for Orientation and Entrepreneurship is within a network that is organized around the state COE,” he explained, since each of the Autonomous Communities and Cities will have its own. The center will offer, among others, job orientation services, training, consultancy for the creation of companies and access to employment programs and technological tools for job search.
The Delegate stressed the importance of having this new infrastructure “because it will depend on actions for the Melillense citizens such as job orientation and training”, but in turn, because it will serve to “guide about the necessary tools to continue implementing to companies all the information necessary to increase the business fabric and that Melilla will be an attractive city”.
Moh recalled that, with the implementation of both the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR) and the Integral Plan, the opportunities offered by our city are implemented, as reflected in measure 27 of Axis 3, dedicated to the strengthening of public services.
As announced by the Delegate, this initiative has involved the hiring of 8 counselors, “who are going to advise the citizens in all these labor orientation issues and look for all the necessary tools to continue improving the employability of our city.”
In addition, Sabrina Moh has highlighted that a series of important calls have been launched to improve job insertion and employability, especially for vulnerable groups, such as women, and companies.
“So far, more than 400 women are benefiting from a program such as the Call for Women in Rural and Urban Areas and 360 people have benefited from programs for vulnerable groups,” she said. But it has also revealed that 200 Melilla companies are benefiting from PRTR funds.
“SEPE Approach” to People
The Provincial Director of the SEPE, for her part, stressed that the COE will enable “a greater approach by SEPE officials, by counselors, to the needs of both the unemployed and those who also require an improvement in their employability.”
Torres has referred to caring for people throughout their working lives as they “may need that advice to improve their employment situation and quality of life.”
In this sense, the COE will have 8 new guidance counsellors who are inserted into the SEPE workforce along with another guidance counsellor who was already in the workforce and who “will allow that individualization that is also a desire of the new employment policy of the State”.
Another of the great objectives of the COE “is to facilitate the insertion and interrelation of entrepreneurs with people who are looking for employment or need an improvement”, he added.
In addition, the COE will have a website “that will facilitate a general dissemination of job offers from the locality and at the state and even European level”, said the Director of the SEPE, who has pointed out that it will also allow each person and each company that is linked to the SEPE to have personalized information of those news or information that may be interesting for their employment.
“This approach to training and counselling will also allow for a much better channeling of the training needs of people who are looking for a job or an improvement in employment,” he said.