Jobs market

With the aid of our employees we help children and young people find their feet in the jobs market.

Step2Work
ROC Op Maat
Campus Nieuw West

The thousands of employees working at Nuon have a wealth of experience in a whole range of fields. The specialists we have in-house cover a diverse spectrum of areas, including ICT, technology, marketing, finance and training. We make that knowledge, as well as our resources and organisation, available as a training school for others.

Step2Work

Youth unemployment is a major economic and social concern in the Netherlands. Particularly low-skilled young people struggle to find work. In our society, where work is an essential part of social acceptance, too many young people stagnate in their development and their job potential remains underdeveloped.

To give unemployed youths better job prospects through extra training and work experience, we started up Nuon Step2Work in March 2006. During a three-year period Nuon will provide about three hundred work experience places that will be filled for a one-year period by participants in this project. Late in December 2006 46 young people had signed up and started. Nuon is preparing them for their work experience place with pre-training in basic knowledge and skills. Those who finish the course with a satisfactory result will be offered a work experience contract.

In November 2006 Nuon received the ‘Baton’ for this initiative. This encouragement prize was established by the Education & Jobs Market Platform Amsterdam to put inspiring education & jobs initiatives in the spotlight.

ROC Op Maat

The tailor-made ‘ROC Op Maat’ course is run by the Amsterdam Regional Training Centre (ROC). The course is aimed at pupils who, for whatever reason, are in danger of dropping out of mainstream education. These pupils are given an opportunity to obtain a certificate within a one-year period which qualifies them for an assistant course at intermediate vocational level (MBO). The course devotes extensive attention to social and personal skills and allows students to familiarise themselves with a working environment in a safe manner.

By taking part in ‘ROC Op Maat’ Nuon wants to help reduce the number of school leavers without a diploma. Until the summer holidays of 2006 Nuon organised ten traineeships for this course.

The traineeships at caterer Sodexho and Facility Management were not a success and will consequently not be repeated in the 2006/2007 school year. By contrast, the placements at the Netcare Division were highly successful. Netcare already has extensive experience with on-the-job traineeships and coaching. The students attended a pre-training course at Nuon Technical Training.

After successfully completing ‘ROC Op Maat’, two students went on to follow an on-the-job traineeship at Netcare. In view of the good results, a new group of five students started at Nuon Technical Training in November 2006. If found suitable, these students will progress to a traineeship at Netcare in 2007.

Campus Nieuw West

Nuon is a member of Campus Nieuw West, an association of businesses and institutions dedicated to bringing the world of business and industry closer to young people (aged between 8 and 16) in the Nieuw West district of Amsterdam. This is necessary because the prospects of social and economic success in this district are much smaller than elsewhere in Amsterdam. In this way Nuon is not only active in providing the district with a reliable energy infrastructure, but also in assisting its social and economic regeneration. In 2006 Nuon was involved in various initiatives of the association:

  • Forty primary and lower secondary pupils did a lightning course of a few hours at Nuon.
  • Seven colleagues gave job interview training at lower secondary schools in a total of fifteen classes.
  • At Bizworld pupils learned all about the promises and pitfalls of setting up and managing their own business under the watchful eye of two colleagues.
  • As part of the ICT KidZZ Academy project, colleagues supervise two groups of children at Nuon every Wednesday afternoon. Attention is given to ICT, personal development and the Dutch language. The aim is to give these children an extra incentive and thus increase their chances of successfully completing their training.