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Help for first-time job seekers The government launched a $2.2 million program to improve the employment prospects of first-time job seekers in the country. The New Entrants to Work (NEW) program will be managed by the National Employment Office under the supervision of the Ministry of Labor, with technical and financial assistance from the World Bank. The NEW program offers first-time job seekers 12 months of on-the-job training in a private firm, along with life skills training, counselling and placement services. Also, employers who hire first-time job seekers will be fully reimbursed for the 12 months of social security contributions that they would have paid to the National Social Security Fund. The program’s stated objectives include breaking initial barriers in the transition from school to work, improving the skills of 1,600 first-time job seekers in a 75-hour comprehensive training program geared to develop job searching and soft skills, and linking