Skills4jobs presentation

Maider Calvo Irastorza

#Skills4jobs project coordinator

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European Union Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity PROGRESS (2007-2013). http://ec.europa.eu/progress

(The information presented does not necessarily reflect the position or opinion of the European Commission)

Europe Strategy 2020

VP/2012/009: ‘Mutual learning in the field of skills and employment, EU Sector Skills Councils, Restructuring’.

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European Context

1. PROGRESS Programme. Mutual learning in the field of skills and employment, EU Sector Skills Councils, Restructuring.

2. Statement of the Commission– (COM ) 173 final Towards a employment-generating recovery.

3. Green Paper- COM (2012) 7 final: Restructuring and anticipation of change: what lessons from recent experience? (2012)

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European Context

1. Progress Programme.

•The study and analysis of current occupation and future scenario.

•Debates and discussions on policy intervention activities offered by employment services to promote the exchange of good practice in the European context

•Promoting the planning and implementation of the reforms of labor policy by involving regional and local actors, social partners, civil society and other stakeholders.

Supporting the application of The European Employment Strategy (EES) by:

EMPLOYMENT PACKAGE.

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European Context

2. Statement of the Commission– (COM ) 173 final

The communication

“Towards a employment-generating recovery”

Relation between

employment policies

and other politics

Work Documents

Favor a smart,

sustainable and inclusive

growth. +

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European Context

2. Statement of the Commission– (COM ) 173 final

«Employment package»

Focused on encouraging job creation.

Recommendations: • Direct subsidies for hiring new employees. • Promote the creation of new businesses. • Transforming informal work into regular employment. • Exploiting the employment potential of the key areas (green economy, health

and welfare , ICT ). • Mobilize EU funds.

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European Context

2. Statement of the Commission– (COM ) 173 final

Key areas of reform:

• To establish decent, sustainable wages, ensuring fair contractual arrangements.

• To provide opportunities for young people and lifelong learning, which is the key to job security and productivity development.

• To call for greater investment in skills to address the skills mismatches in the

labor markets in Europe and better forecasting of needs qualification.

• Addressing the lessons learned from the crisis, Green Paper- COM (2012) 7 final.

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3. Green Paper- COM (2012) 7 final.

CHALLENGES which labor market has to face:

1. The challenge of competitiveness. The importance of economic development and business adjustment.

2. The challenge of adapting business and employability of workers and businesses as a focus on restructuring processes.

3. The challenge of creating synergies in this process of change.

Restructuring and anticipation of change: what lessons from recent experience?

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European Context

3. Green Paper- COM (2012) 7 final.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

• The skilled human capital as a key factor competitiveness of enterprises .

• Business investment in the continuous training of workers to adapt to a changing market and to avoid jeopardizing the adaptation of firms.

• Employment growth by targeting the strategic role of PES for workers’ life long learning.

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Skills4jobs PROJECT

"It contributes to the development of measures to promote and carry out the restructuring of the labor market to the necessary transformation of the

economy. "

The incorporation of new skills in the profile of the professional in career guidance may change it into an agent who energizes this

change; this restructuring. We propose to encourage these professionals as:

"Game Changer”.

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Skills4jobs PROJECT

The GAME CHANGER would contribute to:

1. The challenge of competitiveness. The career guidance professional will support companies, offering them adequate information to enable them to better adapt to the economic situation.

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The GAME CHANGER would contribute to:

2. The challenge of adaptability of companies and employability of workers:

As a bonding agent between:

The needs of companies to determine the skills and new emerging profiles.

And career guidance and supporting workers and the unemployed on the most appropriate education and competency training, avoiding mismatches.

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The GAME CHANGER would contribute to:

3. The challenge of creating synergies.

Between: Companies, Local authorities and other local actors, In cooperation with training providers.

Maintaining the necessary relationships in order to foresee restructuring processes.

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PARTNERSHIP

"New skills for career guidance

in response to the need for

restructuring the labor market

and the creation of new jobs.

Skills4Jobs.”

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OBJECTIVES

Internal objectives • Contribute to the restructuring of the profile of the professional in

career guidance as a promoting agent of change.

• Defining the new skills, competencies and tasks that are necessary to cope the new challenges of employment.

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OBJECTIVES

External objectives

• Contributing to define the (regional and international) regulations that update the functions, skills and knowledge of career guidance professionals.

• Contributing to the redefinition of the basic services offered by Public Employment Services and career guidance collaborative agencies.

• Contributing to the dissemination of the restructuring measures promoted by the European Commission.

• Promoting the dissemination of information and exchange of experiences carried out in the framework of vocational guidance and training at European, national and regional levels.

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Skills4jobs PROJECT

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Skills4jobs PROJECT. Results

External:

- Reports: 4 Publications. - Meeting spaces: 1 International Conference. 24 Diffusion and debate sessions. 1 Final event. - Diffusion material: 2.500 brochures. Website.

Internal:

- Reports: Of progress Final

- Meeting spaces: 3 presencial meetings. 3 Skype meetings.

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Skills4jobs PROJECT. External Results

Reports: 4 Publications.

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Skills4jobs PROJECT. External Results

Meeting spaces: with XX people.

1 International Conference

24 Diffusion and debate sessions

1 Final event

100 people 600 people 40 people

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Skills4jobs PROJECT. External Results

Diffusion material Brochures

Website

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Skills4jobs PROJECT.

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