New Course Offered: "Youth Employment Career Consultant" Training Course

LEC: Tokyo Legal Mind. K.K. as a human-resource development company and an educational institution for professional licensing and certificates, has opened a new course to train professionally qualified youth employment consultants: "Youth Employment Career Consultant".

What is Youth Employment Career Consultant?

A Youth Employment Career Consultant is a professional Career Consultant that specializes in youth related employment issues. It is a professional qualification, supported by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, to promote employment amongst young people as a solution for the social problems of today's youth: high job - leaving rate and the increasing part - time worker population.

Course Description

LEC's "Youth Employment Career Consultant" training course will be offered to general career consultants who aim to specialize in youth employment. The course will be offered by our well - established educational system for training professionals using knowledge and techniques widely acknowledged in LEC University and Job LEC, practical course materials, and a flexible training schedule that can be combined with a correspondence course.The program will start in January 2005, and it is expected to offer 50 courses annually, nation-wide.LEC is expecting to train 1,000 Youth Employment Career Consultants by 2006.

Career opportunities for Youth Employment Career Consultants arise in various youth employment support institutions, and in educational institutions, universities, junior colleges, vocational schools, etc. LEC's "Job Cafe" one - stop service center for youth employment service also employs Youth Employment Career Consultants. We plan to accommodate professional youth employment consulting to Job Cafe to provide a better employment service for the youth of Japan.