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Employer survey on skill needs in Europe: Fieldwork begins
To be competitive, the availability of adequately qualified and skilled employees is a main issue for any firm or organisation. It is, therefore, essential to have the right information about relevant developments of skill need at an early stage. Employers´ answers to this survey will help in meeting labour market requirements more effectively in the future.
The survey is...
- the first harmonised European employer survey on skill needs;
- currently being piloted in 9 European countries (the Czech Republic, Germany, Spain, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Finland);
- measuring skill needs by asking for increasingly important working tasks in selected occupational groups and related drivers of change;
- going to help to understand better labour market needs, to shape targeted VET policies, and to develop and implement VET programmes teaching the right skills;
- part of Cedefop’s work on the early identification of skill needs, supported financially by the European Community Programme for employment and social solidarity (2007-13), managed by the European Commission, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities;
- developed within Cedefop’s activities on the use of employer surveys to identify future skill needs, in collaboration with experts from TNS Infratest Sozialforschung (Munich), Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (Stuttgart), LLAKES Centre - Institute of Education (London), and with helpful advice from Skillsnet members and other experts from the European Commission, Eurofound, the OECD and the ILO.
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Posted on 10/02/2012
| Last update on 23/02/2012
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