My Brief Story and VISION for FUTURE
By: Baljaa Ch
Tags: My Story, Partnerships, Vision, Sdgs, Future Of Work

My Brief Story and VISION for FUTURE

My Intro (Education, Work Experience, Expertise) My most recent International Experience (in a separate page) My VISION & YOUTHinc. Representing #FriendsforWork and SDGs, Friends for Leadership Network (FFL) COVID-19, importance of our HEALTH & WELLBEING What’s my MOTIVATION? Contact for Partnership & Collaboration

My Intro: Hi, I’m Baljaa from Mongolia. My full name is BALJINNYAM, which means “Sunrise” in Tibetan. I’m a lifelong learner, a yogi, a fitness enthusiast, and a mother of two. Also, I’m a social entrepreneur and an activist for SDGs and youth empowerment — striving to build a platform YOUTHinc to bridge the gap between youth and employers; and work-life harmony for a better future!

Education: MBA in International Business,

BA in International Relations from Lindenwood University, Missouri, USA (2006–2008)

Work experience: 10+ years in the NGO and private sector in the USA and in Mongolia (2008-present) including:

Skills in: International Relations, membership community, networking, research and digital coordination

2. My most recent International Experience:

Represented Mongolian Employers Delegation and Honor to Speak at the 108th Plenary Session of International Labor Conference, ILC- ILO in the UN Geneva, Switzerland (June 2019).

(June 2019). Delegate at the ILO Global Youth Employment Forum in Abuja, Nigeria (August, 2019).

(August, 2019). EBMOs and SDGs training by Act/Emp and ITC/ILO in Bangkok, Thailand (July, 2019).

(July, 2019). Academy on transition to Formal Economy, training at ITC-ILO in Turin, Italy (Dec, 2018).

(Dec, 2018). Delegate at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF -19) in St. Petersburg, Russia (June, 2019) as a member of the FFL, Friends for Leadership, international network

(June, 2019) as a member of the FFL, Friends for Leadership, international network Delegate at the Vision for Future, New Delhi, India (March, 2019) The international program organized by BRICS International Forum, India

3. My VISION and YOUTHinc.

MY VISION is to have a meaningful and fulfilling life with work-life harmony for a better future!

Profoundly impacted by my previous work experiences, challenges in our labor market both from the supply and demand side, as young people are not able to find the jobs they want, and businesses are unable to find talent for the jobs they have, I founded YOUTHinc, a social enterprise, a young professionals network, and a membership based community in Mongolia.

OUR VISION:

Better Competence + Work-life harmony for every young professionals!

OUR MISSION:

Building a more inclusive and sustainable platform that bridge the gap between youth and employers towards a better future!

Previously, I Co-Founded Young Mongolian Professionals Association, a 501c3 tax-exempt NGO organization in the USA, registered both in Virginia and California (East & West Coast, USA) from 2009–2015, which is now re-registered in Mongolia as of 2020.

Through our work and activities, we support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 Agenda, particularly by promoting good health & wellbeing (SDG3), quality education & lifelong learning opportunities (SDG4), gender equality (SDG5), decent work for youth (SDG 8), and support strengthening the global partnership (SDG 17) for sustainable development.

At YOUTHinc, we have developed a project initiative — Bridging the Gap “Digital Skills Matching -An Interesting Internship Program” which supports SDG 4, 5, 8, 17 for Youth and Employers to meet the requirements of ever changing future of work as part of our Learning & Development (L&D Hub).

THE GOAL of the Program is to bridge the gaps between youth and employers by enabling youth to acquire needed skills and employability competencies in partnering with employers and business entities.

So far we’re in the preparation/planning phase supported by the Dutch Employers’ Cooperation Programme (DECP).

We believe that this is a scalable project initiative to bridge the gap in the rapidly changing world of work; so we need even more collaborative effort by learning and sharing the best practices in other developing countries.

Introducing our project proposal Bridging the Gap Digital Skills Matching Internship program at ILO Global Youth Employment Forum in Abuja, Nigeria

4. Representing #FriendsforWork and SDGs, Friends for Leadership Network (FFL)

Friends for Leadership is an international network of the next generation leaders and entrepreneurs, who share the best SDGs practices and working solutions to bring them into effect to our local communities globally together with a wide database of the multistakeholder partners. To facilitate this, we also hold trainings and networking sessions around the Sustainable Development Agenda.

FFL Online Meetup: #FriendsforSDGs #UN75 Contest:

It’s truly amazing that our #FriendsforLeadership #FriendsForSDGs and #UN75 contest received over 550 project applications from over 90 countries worldwide! and I’m happy to represent #FriendsforWork or SDG8 and participated in the FFL Online Meetup together with Chief Strategist of the UN75 Natalie Samarasinghe, Billy Batware from the Young UN, Sam Loni from the SDSN, Steve Lee from the UN MGCY and our 17 SDGs convenors from the FFL community.

5. COVID-19, importance of our HEALTH & WELLBEING

Currently, as we all know the world is changing …Covid-19 Pandemic has impacted many lives and livelihoods, societies and economies worldwide; at the same time these new changes, transformation trends raised more challenges and uncertainties in the reality of the modern digital world especially in emerging countries like Mongolia.

I encourage all to be healthier and stronger in order to fight and act in ending this COVID-19 Pandemic together!💪 #FriendsCOVID19Support

I’d like to highlight the importance of health & wellbeing, as well as lifelong learning toward a better future and sharing my experience about how my new habits and daily routines of practicing mindfulness, meditation and exercising helped me to become stronger and healthier while staying at home as a founder of #bfitmongolia, a holistic health — wellness program for a healthy lifestyle to balance Mind-Body-Spirit as well as work-life harmony.

6. What’s my MOTIVATION? My top three motivations are:

“Be the change you wish to see in the world”…and “Each person must live their life as a model for others” …Therefore, it’s my motivation to grow personally & professionally; promote healthy lifestyle, maintain healthy daily habits, practice lifelong learning, build required skills and competency day by day (in my daily routine) towards a meaningful and fulfilling life with work-life harmony:) Youth are the agents of change and driving force towards the achievement of the SDGs and a potential resource for the country’s development shaping the future of the nation. (Mongolia is a country of youth. 64 percent of the total population are under 35 years of age; and 35 percent is the Youth aged 15–34. Unfortunately, According to the Global Competitiveness Report 2019 by the World Economic Forum, Mongolia was ranked 102nd out of 141 countries with its GCI — Global Competitiveness Index; And it’s very ironic that 60% of unemployed people are higher educated professionals, and 30% of graduates cannot get a job in the labor market according to our Labor Force Survey Report 2019, NSO Mongolia.) I believe connecting the right-minded and like-minded individuals through meaningful engagement, lifelong learning, skills and competency building, sharing knowledge and empowering one another, together we can solve the world’s biggest problems with the use of technology to our advantage. And TOGETHER we can contribute and build a more inclusive and sustainable platform that bridge the gap between youth and employers towards a better future (Better Competence + Work-life harmony for every young professionals) !

7. Contact for Partnership & Collaboration

Let’s unite and support one another regardless of nationality, age, gender and background to share experience, knowledge and expertise cross culturally, and we look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration to achieve our common goal together!

Sincerely yours,

Ms. BALJINNYAM Chinzorigt (Baljaa)

Founder & CEO

YOUTH inc.

+976 99050105

baljaa@youthinc.mn

baljaa.youthinc@gmail.com

https://www.youthinc.mn/