Duo for a job

Are you aged 50 or above, with 2-3 hours to spare weekly and professional experience in the communication sector? Consider becoming a mentor with DUO for a JOB! As a mentor, you'll assist young job seekers with a migrant background in Belgium, sharing your industry insights and contributing to their career development. No coaching experience is required. Benefit from our continuing education program and make a meaningful impact.

Vision
DUO for a JOB association was born from a double observation:

• There is a proven inequality of access to the labour market for young people with a migrant background in Belgium.
• People over 50 years of age in Belgium have one of the lowest employment rates in Europe and face a lack of appreciation of their skills.

By bringing these two groups together, DUO for a JOB aims to help eliminate inequalities in access to the labour market for young people with a migrant background, to recognise the knowledge of our 50+, and to combat discrimination by recreating social cohesion, understanding and local solidarity.

Mission
DUO for a JOB organises intergenerational and intercultural mentoring to facilitate access to the job market for the youngest jobseekers while recognizing the value of the over 50 experience.

Practically this means a relationship where an experienced person, “the mentor”, shares their knowledge and expertise with a young person, “the mentee”, in order to allow them to develop their skills and autonomy, and to enable them to identify and achieve professional objectives. This relationship (“the duo”) is based on exchanging, learning and permanent and reciprocal trust.

Once paired, the young person and his or her mentor meet for two hours a week for six months.