The unemployment rate of the individual participants in such courses usually lasts for very different periods, with most of them not having found work for a long time. In the new course, men and women from very different nations came to school: in addition to Germans, there were also participants from Syria, Iraq, Slovakia, Kazakhstan and Romania.
With the corona virus in mind, according to course leader Thomas Klein, the course started with eleven participants in October last year. Until mid-December, classes at ISE went as planned. Then came the difficult turning point for the course participants: the course had to switch to online teaching for five months. Fortunately, face-to-face classes were still able to take place for another week before the men and women of the course were able to get to know a possible new job in a seniors' facility during a four-week internship. Klein was grateful for the generous willingness of senior citizens' facilities in the region to offer internships, despite high Corona protection measures.
The group from this course, which was funded by the European Social Fund and the job center, went through three qualification areas over the nine months: Promoting and supporting old people in their mobility in the context of self-care, in the intake of food and fluids and in their daily activities.
Rainer Liermann, team leader of the job center, Ute Hansmann, supervisor of the job center, Peter Blendowski, ISE project manager, Roland Domogalla, ISE managing director, Thomas Klein, course leader, and Doris Sieß, social worker, acknowledged the great commitment and emphasized that the graduates are proud would be able to count on what has been achieved and would get a secure job.
Three participants already have a secure job offer and one participant will begin the one-year nursing assistant training in September. However, Blendowski recommended that foreign graduates improve their German, receive further professional training and, if necessary, use the ISE employment agency.