ILO/Japan Tripartite Meeting Regional Meeting on Youth Employment

in Asia and The Pacific

Group Work Report

Discussion topic :

Enhancing Employability

Group presentation for “Practical Measures”

Issues or challenges

• Knowledge and skills

• Assistance in transition (Integration)

• Access to workplace

Knowledge & Skills

What needs to be done to address this issue

• Labour market analysis, requirements of competencies & skills at the workplace (identify the relevant skills to workplace)

• More practical knowledge subjects at schools

• Focus on institutional capacity building (people, facilities, equipment, other resources)

• Equal distribution (Rural vs urban)

• Information flow of workplace at schools, assistance to

career teachers of update in the industries

Who takes the lead ? And when… ?

• Government take the lead (or facilitate)

• However Profession organizations, employer’s associations, trade unions, NGO’s or even the student organizations can play great role to assist or take a leading role

• When ? Some of them in short terms ie written guidance.

• More formal partnership structures in longer term

Assistance in transition (Integration)

What needs to be done to address this issue

• Create a web site ie www.youthemployment.com - features linkages to other countries in the regions. Contains all the information that youth may require (job vacancies, how to make applications, guidance in interview etc)

• To form National Training Authority - consist of Tripartite plus, education if not adequately represented by government

• Informal youth committee - forum with innovative approach to sustain youth employment

Access to workplace

What needs to be done to address this issue

• Constant promotion of youth employment opportunities - employer’s association, trade unions (through publications, guest speakers, coaching or association web pages)

• Jobs / career counseling by employers or workers associations including job matching

• Innovative training arrangements by employers

• Directing them to ILO manual/guideline to youth employment which will be published on the net (links to youth web site)

Best practice for enhancing youth employability

The stories of role models

Stories of successful business people or workers

Through publications or web site (ICT)

Learning other initiatives from other countries

Equal opportunities

Not playing favorite

equality between women and men

Ends of presentations