{"id":74212,"date":"2025-04-15T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T12:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=74212"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:11:14","slug":"my-first-job-an-employment-opportunity-for-the-roma-ashkali-and-egyptian-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/my-first-job-an-employment-opportunity-for-the-roma-ashkali-and-egyptian-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy First Job,\u201d an employment opportunity for the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Members of the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities can now register on the platform &#8220;My First Job,&#8221; where they can apply for positions in private companies and also report workplace discrimination,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/\">KosovaPress<\/a>&nbsp;reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This opportunity is available only to individuals between the ages of 18 and 34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armanda Toska, Senior Employment Officer at the organization \u201cVoice of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptians\u201d (VOAE), told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/\">KosovaPress<\/a>&nbsp;that this is a call for young people from these communities to begin their work experience. After six months, she said, they will receive formal employment contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toska added that 80 individuals will benefit from job placements this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cThis is an opportunity and also a call for young people from the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities to be part of their first work experience through the \u2018My First Job\u2019 platform, to find their first job with a formal employment contract after a six-month work experience&#8230; All young people from these communities who meet the age criteria\u2014from 18 to 34 years old\u2014are eligible to apply and register on the platform&#8230; The number of beneficiaries will be around 80 for this year&#8230; We invite all businesses, private companies, to be part of the platform, to register, and why not, even be beneficiaries themselves\u2026 So far, from previous years, we\u2019ve managed to attract around 120 businesses that have actively participated,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;said Toska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform was presented by one of its creators, Besart Vahia, who demonstrated how it can be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the third year that VOAE is enabling employment opportunities for this community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian communities can now register on the platform &#8220;My First Job,&#8221; where they can apply for positions in private companies and also report workplace discrimination,&nbsp;KosovaPress&nbsp;reports. This opportunity is available only to individuals between the ages of 18 and 34. Armanda Toska, Senior Employment Officer at the organization \u201cVoice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":74213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,296],"tags":[6053,6054,5693,6052],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74218,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74212\/revisions\/74218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}