What is Training and Employability?
Talent exists in every territory; opportunities don’t. Training and Employability designs programs in technology, robotics and finance that connect people with real jobs and opportunities.
We build applied curricula with the companies that hire, manage scholarships and partnerships with educational institutions and support participants until their first job or higher-education opportunity.
Each program is measured by what happens after the classroom: employment pathways, educational continuity and skills development.
The problems clients bring us
Are we training for jobs that exist?
Courses disconnected from what hiring companies are asking for.
How do we reach young people in territories with fewer opportunities?
Programs concentrated in large cities and hard to access.
What happens to participants when they finish?
Programs that end with a certificate and no pathway to employment.
Are companies finding the talent they need?
Technology and finance vacancies that are hard to fill with local profiles.
How do we fund sustainable scholarships?
Programs that depend on a single funder or a single call for proposals.
How do we demonstrate results to partners?
Attendance indicators instead of employability and educational continuity.
Our approach, applied to Training and Employability
The same four phases of «Our approach», with what we do and what we deliver in each one.
The path of a training and employability program
- 01Talent demandEmployers, institutions and characterization of the territory.
- 02Pathways by profileTraining with partners that provide content, internships or vacancies.
- 03Curricula and partnershipsApplied curricula and scholarship model.
- 04Pilot in one territoryThe program is tested before scaling.
- 05Connection with employersMentoring, vacancies and results measurement for partners.
We use a problem-solving structure to frame hypotheses.
We interview employers and institutions, and characterize the population and territory where the program will take place.
DeliverableMap of talent demand and populationWe break the problem down into a MECE structure.
We define training pathways by profile, with the partners that provide content, internships, scholarships or vacancies.
DeliverableProgram design by pathwayWe build the business cases and the structure of each initiative.
We build the curricula and the scholarship and partnership model, with a pilot in one territory before scaling.
DeliverableApplied curriculaWe provide support with a dedicated, full-time on-site team within the organization.
Execution, mentoring, connection with employers and institutions, and results measurement for partners.
DeliverableEmployment pathways
What does the diagnosis review?
A bridge from talent to employment
- Talent in the territory
- 01TrainingApplied, hands-on curriculum
- 02PracticeA real challenge from a partner company
- 03EmploymentVacancies, internships or higher education
- Hiring companies
- Base: Partners and scholarships
- Base: Mentoring
- Talent demandProfiles and skills that companies are asking for.
- Population and territoryWho takes part, where they are and what barriers they face.
- Applied curriculumContent, projects and hands-on methodology.
- Partners and scholarshipsCompanies, educational institutions and funders.
- Mentoring and supportSupport for participants during and after the program.
- Results measurementEmployment, educational continuity and skills.
What does the participant’s path look like?
Each participant follows a path that starts with the call for applications and ends with a job or higher-education opportunity.
The participant’s path
- 01 Call for applicationsReaching young people in their territory
- 02 TrainingApplied, hands-on curriculum
- 03 Applied projectA real challenge from a partner company
- 04 MentoringSupport from professionals
- 05 Work or studyVacancies, internships or higher education
What stays in your organization
- Applied curricula
- Practical content designed with the companies that hire.
- Scholarships and partnerships
- Agreements with companies, institutions and funders that sustain the program.
- Employment pathways
- Connecting participants with vacancies, internships or higher education.
- Mentoring model
- Support for participants from professionals.
- Results dashboard
- Employability, educational continuity and skills indicators for partners.
Strategic challenge, analytical rigor, measurable impact
Qualitative cases: figures are published once the client validates them.
Robotics for young people in Quibdó
STEM training program in ChocóLimited access to technology training among young people on Colombia’s Pacific coast.
A robotics incubator with hands-on methodology, mentoring from the Benká team and connections with higher-education opportunities.
Young people from the Pacific region with a technology training pathway and a connection with higher education.
Where do we apply it?
Led by Benká Social Venture, with the rest of the holding when the challenge calls for it.
