Formation Emploi Tremplin (FOR.E.T)
Description
Methodology
Formation Emploi Tremplin (FOR.E.T) is a Brussels-‐based private not-‐for-‐ profit company specialised in the catering industry. The organisation is running a pedagogical restaurant and is providing catering and cleaning services to youth hostels in Brussels run by the non-‐profit organisation SLEEP WELL. Its priority is to foster low-‐skilled people inclusion in the job market, with a specific focus on unemployed and with little schooling young jobseekers, via vocational training. The company employs 16 full-‐time people as well as 6 persons with a helped contract (article 60). FOR.E.T is currently training : § 34 NEETs in apprenticeship to become help cookers, room clerks, manservants or chamber maids. § 4 NEETS as help cookers via a career bridging program and as part of a social economy project subsidized by the Regional Employment Office, in order to initiate and promote local employment. FOR.E.T uses a work-‐based learning methodology. Professional practice is the priority. Vocational training is given in a real work atmosphere, in contact of clients visiting the pedagogical restaurant and SLEEP WELL youth hostels. By doing so, the program participants acquire directly practical skills and know-‐how which then will provide a basis for more theoretical learning. In addition, trainees have to complete a work placement of 152 hours maximum in a company. § Housekeeping training: 2 days of theoretical modules (English, Dutch, introduction of the sector, communication and professional theory) and 3 days of practice in the youth hostel. § Help cooker and room clerks training: 640 hours of training where 4/5 is dedicated to professional practice in the pedagogical restaurant which is open 4 days per week at lunch time and 1/5 is dedicated to theoretical modules such as communication and employment law. § Help cooker training via the career bridging program: It follows the same methodology described above, at the only difference that trainees have a working contract and that theoretical module (80 hours scheduled by the contract) are organized when there is gaps in their work timetable.
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