World Youth Skills Day
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• Date: 15 July (Annual)
• Celebrated in: Worldwide
• Duration: 1 day
• Status: International Observance (UN)
• Type: International Awareness Day
• Communities: Youth, students, educators, institutions, government

Quick Fact: World Youth Skills Day highlights the importance of technical, vocational and digital skills in empowering young people for employment and entrepreneurship

Introduction
World Youth Skills Day is a special day established by the United Nations in 2014. It is celebrated every year on July 15. The main goal of celebrating this day is to help the young people learn different new and important skills for a job and life. This day addresses the young people who need better education and training. This day helps the youths to be motivated for learning new skills and increase their potential to build a better future. 

History and Background.
The United Nations General Assembly declared July 15 as World Youth Skills Day in 2014. This day highlights the big problem of young people not getting good jobs because they lack the right skills and knowledge. This day also helps the youths through different workshops, seminars and programs.

The United Nations creates awareness campaigns for skills development in youths and organizes different programs to give proper exposure to make them skilled and trained human resources.

Why is this day important?

World Youth Skills Day is important for several reasons.

• Solves the Unemployment Problem
  Many Youths will learn useful skills and become skilled human resources. This helps them to get better jobs and helps them earn money.

• Reduces Poverty
  Learning skills helps the youths to get good jobs and earn. This lifts them economically and reduces the poverty rate.

• Confidence Building
  By gaining enough skills and exposure, new skills will make young people feel confident. They believe in themselves and it helps them in their professional life.

• Creating Opportunities
  This day helps the youths to open their career paths by starting to learn different skills. This day results in endless possibilities for the opportunities for careers. 

• Networking
  This day helps the youths get different connections with the working professionals where different skills can be learned through mentorships, workshops, programs and seminars.

How is this day celebrated?

In global scale, World Youth Skill Day is celebrated in different ways.

• Workshops and Trainings
  School, Colleges and Training Centers organize special workshops and training programs. This helps the young people to learn about different careers and skills. 

• Career Fairs
  Many career fairs are hosted in many cities targeting the young people and youngsters. This helps the company to meet the young job seekers and the youths can learn about different career paths and options. 

• Online Events
  Different organizarions host different webinars and online discussions that connects to the youths directly. They can learn about different career options and develop their skills in a planned way.

• Competitions
  Different competitions are conducted in different schools and universities to train the students and develop the skills in them that are needed in job markets.

People need variety of skills in the present world. Some of the most famous and demanding skills include Technical Skills, Soft Skills, Digital Skills, Entrepreneurship Skills, Life Skills. These skills helps in shaping of the personality of an individual and support in personal and professional life. The skilled human resources will be benefited in the real world job market.

Thus, World Youth Skill Day helps the young people to start their skills development which will benefit them in the future. Everyone will get a chance to learn, grow and success. By working together with the market experts, youths can get opportunities and help them to reach their full potential. The skills learned will be used somehow and somewhere in the future.