Starbucks regional initiative for enhancing youth employment

Starbucks recently concluded its ‘Opportunity Café’ initiative launched in collaboration with Bayt.com and Education for Employment (EFE) foundation. This initiative is believed to be the largest professional training workshop on CV writing across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). As part of the Global Month of Service which takes place on April of each year, the workshop was held last April 18 at 29 Starbucks stores across 10 MENA countries with a wide participation of  35 professional trainers and 177 Starbucks partners (employees). The Opportunity Café trained 900 young men and women between the ages of 16 and 35, notwithstanding their academic background. The initiative provided training sessions to the region’s youth, in addition to strategic career advice from committed experts. The purpose of the initiative was to help those aspiring young people to realize their professional dreams through building the skills required during hiring interviews, and therefore enhance the chances of their employment.  (Al Mustaqbal, May 19, 2016)