Life Skills Impact on Personal and Professional Development of Young People: Information Booklet for Youth

This Life Skills Informative Booklet is a useful material for all young people, which provides information and guidance on: a) basic life skills, with a long-term impact on personal and professional life; b) habits to adapt to constant changes of social and economic conditions and situations, c) opportunities for successful future employment. 

Skills for Life brochure help young people to reach adulthood successfully. This period of life can be a challenging experience, regardless of socioeconomic status, gender, ethnicity or background. Young people who do not have family or social support find it more difficult to overcome the various circumstances they may encounter on their journey to independence. 

To acquire these skills and become independent in their lives, young people must work diligently and consistently in order to face the daily challenges, likes and dislikes, different opinions, and attitudes. They need to be motivated to work on their strengths and to overcome their weaknesses, in order to foster positive and sustainable change, as well as to meet employment requirements. 

To adjust the information in this booklet, and to make it as understandable as possible for all young people when reading and absorbing it, young people were engaged, aged 16 to 20, previously trained on ‘Skills for Life’, and beneficiaries of Youth Empowerment project. They shared their thoughts, experiences, feelings, and suggestions on life skills and experience gained during their participation in that project.