| Date: | 2015 - |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | The programme promotes the creation of new job opportunities for young people, women and people with disabilities, through an economic benefit that the state will grant to companies that enrol in the programme and increase their staff. Through the programme, participants acquire new skills and experience, which will improve their chances of finding quality jobs. For their part, companies have an incentive to increase their workforce and train workers according to their needs. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Women and people with disabilities of any age, men between 17 and 35 years old. |
| Area of intervention: | 1) Technical and professional training 2) Indirect employment generation |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | Categorical |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | Decree Nº 39213/2015 -MTSS-MEIC |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Labour and Social Security |
| Executing organization(s): | Ministry of Labour and Social Security |
| Source of funding: | Government of Costa Rica |
1) Job Creation
| Recipient(s): | Participants of the programme |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Participating companies |
| Comments: | Companies may recruit a maximum of 20 persons under this programme. |
| Description: | The benefit that the state will grant to companies is equivalent to ¢1,456,000.00 for each worker hired under My First Job. It will be paid by transfer to the company in two equal amounts, namely the first six months after the start of the programme and the second at the end of the year. |
2) Dual formation
| Recipient(s): | Participants of the programme |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Participants of the programme |
| Description: | The Ministry of Labour and Social Security together with the National Learning Institute (INA) will promote the incorporation of more companies in the Dual Training programme. In these trainings, people will be trained in soft skills in the world of work such as group cohesion, oral, written and assertive communication, life project, basic financial education and preparation for the job interview; they also receive basic computer courses, internet and MS Office through the MICIT's Intelligent Community Centres (CECIs) that are in all the cantons of the country. |
