‘Skills for Jobs’ S4J partner schools and their partner companies are now preparing for the new cohort of students/apprentices who start the academic year on September 17, 2018. During summer, some businesses in the school network organized ‘Open Days’ so freshmen students could get familiar to the practical training offered for each vocational direction.

In July, 4 students who had just enrolled in the Tourism & Hospitality branch at the vocational ‘Kolin Gjoka’ school in Lezha participated in an open day in business. Chef Alfred Marku didn’t lose the opportunity to immediately introduce the soon-to be-apprentices to the kitchen and restaurant processes.

‘’This is the happiest day of my life!” says Klidjon Gjoci, freshman at ‘Kolin Gjoka’ school. “I really hope that chef Fredi will select me [as an apprentice] in November, when we [students] participate in the interviews with businesses representatives.”

New businesses have joined the schools’ network of partner businesses, thus making it possible for all  first year students enrolled in vocational directions supported by S4J get an apprenticeship.