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Skills Audits for Asylum Seekers and Refugees

A practitioners' Manual

Finding employment is a key factor facilitating the social and vocational integration of asylum seekers and refugees. However, there are many significant barriers that asylum seekers and refugees have to overcome in the process of reorientating their skills to the UK labour market. This practitioners’ manual is designed to show professionals and volunteers who work with asylum seekers and refugees a particularly effective method of vocational re-orientation, using an innovative methodological approach based on individual skills auditing.

The skills audit approach developed during the NIACE–ASSET UK–ESF EQUAL project uses interview, counselling and simple research techniques to provide a thorough analysis of an individual asylum seeker’s current skills and experience, forming a firm foundation on which to build reorientation opportunities, so giving asylum seekers and the people who help them the chance to take informed careers decisions.

This manual will be helpful to experienced practitioners, to people just beginning work with asylum seekers and refugees, and even to those working with them only occasionally. It guides readers through the fundamentals of skills auditing and the giving of Information, Advice and Guidance to asylum seekers and refugees. It provides invaluable hints and pro forma guides to interviewing and subsequent presentation of personal histories. It then covers the identification of suitable social and vocational reorientation activities including education, volunteering and work experience. Then follows a comprehensive analysis of possible barriers and ways to overcome them, and, finally, a detailed list of organisations providing support to practitioners and asylum seekers and refugees.

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