In the agency, he performs the tasks of an accountant, keeping financial and non-financial documentation for small, medium and large companies, associations and institutions, compiling financial reports and legal counseling. In order to be able to put into practice the knowledge acquired during her studies, she improves her work culture together with working colleagues and a mentor, to compile a very extensive and complex job.

YourJob guidance counsellor helped her to find this job. She joined the program with an aim to get support and advice on how to find her first work experience in the profession she was trained for. Joining several program activities and counselling, she began actively looking for a job, which, with incentives from the project, soon resulted in employment. Aware that she is just at the beginning her professional career, she is highly motivated and excited to have the opportunity to gain new experiences, skills and knowledge.

"My life goal is to do a job that I love, that fulfils me and that I can contribute to my local community. I wish to never get tired of exploring new things and places, meeting new people, which will, hopefully help me to permanently improve and expand my horizons. I will never stop trying, despite the first, second or tenth stumble. The way to achieve much bigger goals starts with setting small daily and weekly goals with constant work on them. Its that simple, you just need to be persistent and never give up. You have to recognize a moment when to redirect your plan good and how to dedicate yourself to something else.”- Mia points out.

Actively participating in Caritas activities, Mia discovered YourJob program activities and joined several training opportunities. Her thoughts about the project: “I think that this project is an extremely positive and useful thing that was very needed in our surroundings. Many young people in the region, after completing their studies face the problem of finding the first job in the profession, because employers are mostly looking for candidates with at least 2 years of work experience. A project as YourJob, creates a link between potential employees and employers, provides incentives and advice for the most successful mutual beneficial cooperation, where candidates gain work experience, new skills and competences on one side, and employers gain new and fresh perspectives as well ideas on the other side. I especially like the activity of counseling that refers not only to young people improving their skills to preparing them for the labour market, but also an element of counselling employers - how they can more effectively integrate interns and new employees into their organization, and as well as possible transfer the necessary knowledge. It is important that employers understand that by introducing a new perspective brought by young people without previous work experience and ones who think outside the organizational framework, can generate new business ideas that can improve the overall business, which can result in an expanding the organization, employment of more people, and ultimately improving the social and economic image of the environment."

Young people are quite demotivated and passive, and today's business world is moving very fast. This causes that employers do not have time to teach someone new job skills from scratch, especially someone who only has the desired degree and no any kind of informal training. Employers need an employee who is active, flexible and dynamic, who will quickly adopt new knowledge and share ideas to improve existing things and processes. Furthermore, projects like YourJob who work precisely on improving the quality of the labour market and employers and accelerating this process, are helping that young people acquire new knowledge and skills as quickly and efficiently as possible and that employers or those who develop their business ideas can manage their business faster and better and achieve successful business goals.

When asked about the future, Mia says: “I can't say that I didn't wonder what it would be like if I tried to find an opportunity to live and work outside BiH, like most young people in BiH. Moreover, I immediately ask myself a question: And why not stay and try living life here. I think that is exactly the keyword - to try. Not only, when it comes to life in BiH, but also about everything else: trying to work on yourself, trying to learn something new and different; trying to get out of the comfort zone and present yourself and your ideas to successful business people; trying to listen and to adapt stories of successful people, to connect with new people; try to get something useful out of every job (student, part-time), trying to present yourself and your motivation to work in dozens of job interviews ... after all, all this is needed to be prepared to go abroad, while work does not come by itself either in BiH or abroad. In addition, maybe just in preparation for going abroad, you find yourself on the road to success right here in BiH. Maybe you motivate others to do the same, and so you start to build a network of successful young people who will start things for a better future so that those who have left the country also want to come back. If you want to change the world, start from yourself "- Mia is determined.

Mia’s advice to young people is to work on yourself before doing anything else. Working on yourself is a lifelong process, your life doesn’t move with despair and sitting down for coffee, waiting for the best moment to come. The best time to start something is when you decide to start. Take advantage of every learning opportunity, especially when it comes to free courses and educations, which, commendably, are more and more today. Participate in all the activities you can, dare to start group activities by yourself. Absolutely every effort pays off and every brave step is rewarded. Don't let fear or shame hold you back. On the contrary, broaden your horizons and be open-minded. If you have your own business ideas do not give up on them, but develop, test and try to realize them. This is where the key to economic development lies. Apply for the YourJob project, where friendly counsellors will help you get to know yourself and take concrete steps that will lead you to the desired path. Many centers offer volunteering and professional development, use the advantage and start work on yourself. The hardest thing is to start because we do not know where to start the first step and what to do, but no worries, that is exactly where consultations will surely help you. Every journey begins with the first step, and Mia has taken her step.

Mia is one of 352 people involved in project activities in the first year of YourJob in BiH program implementation, of which 38 completed vocational training, 18 were employed for the first time as interns, 22 people entered the process of self-employment through business start-up ideas, while 12 people have found permanent employment through the mediation of the project.

The regional three-year program YourJob aims to empower young people, providing opportunities to increase their competitiveness in the labour market. It is implemented by the Caritas network in 14 cities/municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia with the financial support of the Austrian Development Agency, Renovabis, and Caritas Austria.