Although the whole world seems to have stopped, life didn’t stop, and the business must continue. The industry that is suffering the biggest losses in the current situation is tourism, in all its segments - hotels, catering services, agencies, airlines, etc. Below, we give you a few recommendations on how to continue running your business in the conditions that seem impossible for something like that.

Do you want to improve your hospitality business and services? Do you want to attract more guests and further develop your business?

While quarantine lasts, we have the right thing for you!

Are companies supporting the career development of their employees and how? How are HR staff being prepared to perform career guidance and counseling activities? What needs to be done to ensure that career development is truly lifelong and more employees have the opportunity to receive quality career guidance services? These are some of the questions that Belgrade Open School seeks to answer through research that has been launched as a part of the international CONNECT initiative!

Young people from Western Balkans countries face numerous challenges in finding good career opportunities for their mobility. The WEB4YES Regional Initiative seeks to defy these statistics and help create better conditions for all young people by empowering civil society organizations to participate in decision-making processes and advocacy activities regarding youth employment policies.

Immigrants in Serbia face many challenges when it comes to employment. One of the most important aspects is adequate informing about required documents for employment, and another issue is how to prepare for a job interview.

Empowering migrants to enter the EU labor market is a difficult and challenging process characterized by diverse and often uncertain socio-economic, socio-political and cultural differences and barriers. Throughout their process of adapting to a different culture, career guidance and counseling skills can serve as a useful tool for more effective coping, adaptation and understanding of social opportunities and integration into the job market.

When was the last time you learned something new about another country without visiting it? Do you know how similar your culture is to another culture? How similar are Congo, Serbia, and Burundi? These are some of the questions we have tried to answer together.

Even though internships in Serbia are widely spread, our legal framework does not recognize a legal and contractual obligation between an intern and employer. Whereat elements of quality internships contain contractual relationship, mentorship, some kind of financial motivation, a good internship is, like a unicorn, impossible to find.

The third National Advisory Board Meeting within the project ALMIT - Acceleration Of Labour Market Integration Of Immigrants Through Mapping Of Skills And Trainings, was held on November 1, 2019 at Charitable Foundation of the Serbian Orthodox Church "Philanthropy".

Last month, under the initiative of Belgrade Open School, individual consultative meetings were held with representatives of trade unions, Labour and Education ministries, American Chamber of Commerce in Serbia, Serbian Association of Employers, representatives of “Education to Employment” programme.

How can we help students to make career decisions based on authentic and relevant information? What competencies are necessary for career practitioners to successfully provide career guidance and counseling services? How we can prepare students for a job or internship interview? These are just some of the topics we addressed during the two-day training "One step further towards comprehensive and quality services of career guidance and counseling", held on September 19-20 in Belgrade.

What can we learn as a career counsellors from a person who is our client? Can we successfully counselling someone if we do not know his story? How do we contribute to society through career counseling?