The Government Delegate, Sabrina Moh; the Provincial Director of the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE) in Melilla, Jorge Vera; and the Provincial Director of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Elena Fernández Treviño, presented this morning, a new edition of an activity that uses virtual reality applied to job orientation for training and competency diagnosis in transversal competencies.
Thus, in this edition, a total of 60 people are going to meet at the Center for Orientation and Entrepreneurship (COE) to, through a virtual reality program, in groups of five people can train soft skills and promote teamwork as well as tackle different tests. All this will allow a competential diagnosis aimed at improving the employability of job seekers and Vocational Training students.
The head of the Government Delegation, accompanied by Vera, Fernández Treviño, the Director of the COE, María Alba Valero; the Director of the Integrated Vocational Training Center (CIFP) Reina Victoria Eugenia, Pedro Cortés, and the labor counselor of the CIFP, Beatriz Miragaya, has shown the media the virtual reality teams and has valued the role of the COE as a key tool to offer personalized pathways of labor insertion to the citizens.
Moh, who recalled that the COE was one of the bets of the Government of Spain in the city, has pointed out that it responds to a clear need: to offer effective and personalized job guidance to improve opportunities for access to employment. “We have always detected that we need to have personalized itineraries, that we need to have a good job orientation in addition to all the training to direct our possibilities within the world of work,” he said.
The Delegate stressed that the implementation of initiatives such as the one presented today represents “one more step” in the actions carried out by the COE, all of them aimed at continuing to alleviate unemployment in the city.
In this regard, he has emphasized the importance of incorporating advanced technological tools into the orientation process: “New technologies and artificial intelligence have strongly entered society, and channeling them and combining them with work orientation is a vital and important tool that we must be able to implement to give positive results in our city.”
Moh also stressed the importance of institutional coordination, thanking the Provincial Director of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports for her collaboration. “Employment and education are two fundamental pillars to maintain young talent, train our young people and offer them opportunities within the labour market in Melilla,” he said.
Finally, he highlighted the commitment of the Government of Spain with the implementation of joint actions that allow to combine training and employment, “looking for tools that give real opportunities to Melilla society in general and our young people in particular so that they can find in their city the job opportunity they need”.
Adjust the orientation to each profile
As Vera explained, this initiative, which is part of the COE 2025 Action Plan and which is developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, “aims to offer personalized services to users to facilitate their incorporation into the labor market.”
This initiative allows to carry out an individualized diagnosis of the capacities and competences of the participants to identify strengths, weaknesses and design, from there, a personalized training itinerary. “It’s a very interesting starting point, because not all itineraries serve everyone. This tool allows us to adjust training and orientation to each specific profile,” he said.
The activity includes the work of soft skills through dynamics in virtual reality, in which participants must overcome missions and strategic challenges that test their leadership, ability to adapt and assume different roles. “These exercises allow us to prepare very accurate reports on the user’s profile, and that report is fundamental because it must be prior to the creation of a work placement itinerary,” said Vera.
In total, 60 people will participate in this experience, of which 38 are job seekers from different groups contemplated in the Employment Law and 22 are FP students who finish their studies this year and who have been selected for their intention to join the labor market directly.
Vera recalled that this tool “was already applied last year with very positive results” and explained that it will be incorporated in a stable way into the program of activities of the COE. In addition, he has stressed that this detailed information on professional profiles is also very useful for companies when filling vacancies.
Finally, it has valued the work of the COE team and its counselors, who “manage to improve and position these CVs in job portals appropriate to the needs of each participant, thus increasing their real opportunities for job insertion.”