Download or read book What Employers Look for when Recruiting the Unemployed and Inactive written by Becci Newton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study (80 pages) examined the evidence relating to what employers are looking for when recruiting unemployed / inactive people, and the extent to which government provision meets their needs. The following questions were examined: What sort of characteristics, skills and qualifications do employers look for when recruiting employees? How important are qualifications to employers? Are employers more interested in soft skills/employability skills? If so, how do employers recognise soft skills in the interview process and afterwards? Table of contents: * Summary * What employers look for when recruiting unemployed and inactive people * Introduction and definitions * Findings from the academic, policy and evaluation literature (Key findings. Skills and employment in the UK economy. The demand for skills. The range of skills) * Regional, sectoral and occupational differences in recruitment demand (Regional perspective. Sectoral perspective. Occupational perspective. Unemployment and hard-to-fill and skills-shortage. Vacancies) * The characteristics, skills and qualifications employers look for when recruiting (Characteristics. Skills. Qualifications) * The role of qualifications in recruitment (The importance of qualifications. What qualifications demonstrate. Industry dimensions to the importance of qualifications) * The role of soft skills and how these are measured in recruitment (The importance of soft skills to employers. Measuring soft skills in the recruitment process. Informal assessment of soft skills. Formal assessment of soft skills) * Recruiting from different groups (Older people. Young people) * Conclusions * Expert views of employers' needs on recruitment (Key findings. The characteristics, skills and qualifications employers look for when recruiting. Characteristics and skill requirements. The value attached by employers to qualifications. Employers' views on recruiting unemployed or inactive people. Employers' views of training. Summary) * Appendix Discussion guide for expert interviews * Table 1.1 Terms used in the evidence search * Table 1.2 Understanding qualification levels * Table 1.3 Examples of job roles in occupational categories * Table 2.1 Different skills types referred to in this report * Table 2.2 Employability skills framework summary * Table 2.3 Critical skills required in recruitment, by occupation (per cent).
Download or read book Public Employment Services and European Law written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employment services are at the centre of a complex web of rules deriving from the EU, national public law and from private agreements. This book examines the law and regulation of public services through case studies of the public employment services in EU member states.
Download or read book Public Employment Services and European Law written by Mark Freedland FBA and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the EU's community of welfare states adapt their public policies to economic globalization? What happens when the economic and social aims of the EU come into conflict? This book examines the developing legal regimes and regulation of public services in the UK and other European countries. Public services are examined though a case-study of the complex area of public employment services. These are job-placement and vocational training services which aim to maximize employment and minimize unemployment within EU member States' Active Labour Market policies. Employment services are at the centre of a complex web of rules in both hard and soft forms of law deriving from the EU, national public law and from private, and at times contractual, agreements. They also lie at the crossroads of a series of trends in regulation, and priorities have been inspired by an array of conflicting policy rationales. These policy rationales include the establishment of an open and competitive European internal market, the establishment of an efficient welfare state, the scaling down of state administrative machinery, the fulfilment of core public service responsibilities, and the creation of public-private partnerships. Public employment services provide a highly informative and novel case study of the interaction and conflict between the economic and social aims of the EU and between regulation at national and supranational levels, and the changing forms which this regulation has taken.
Download or read book Training Participation by Age Amongst Unemployed and Inactive People written by Becci Newton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neurodiversity in the Workplace written by Susanne M. Bruyère and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neurodiversity in the Workplace presents a timely and needed perspective on the role and responsibility of employers and those working to increase the effectiveness of workplace practices to examine the many ways we preclude large segments of the population from employment; minimizing opportunities for building a truly inclusive work environment. This collection provides an opportunity to look at how discrimination can occur across the employment process and what can be done to minimize the exclusionary practices that prevent neurodiverse individuals from getting into the workplace, advancing, thriving, and contributing as each of us desires to do. With expertise from leading professionals, this book provides a holistic look at the application of leadership theories in a neurodiverse context and how the workplace can be adapted to accommodate for neurodiverse employees. This book also explores effective recruitment strategies by looking into applicant screening as well as interviewing and selection, adapting internal organizational resources to a neurodiverse workforce, and legal and regulatory environment considerations for autism hiring programs. Each chapter provides an overview of existing knowledge on effective workplace inclusion practices across the employment process, specific implications of research to date for a more neurodiversity-inclusive workplace, and what future research is needed to further inform these practices. This volume is intended to increase awareness about the challenges and opportunities in making the workplace more neurodiversity-inclusive, making it instrumental for I/O and other psychologists. This book is also crucial for management and business consultants; employers; diversity, equity, and inclusion specialists; human resource professionals; and others interested in neurodiversity inclusion more broadly.
Download or read book Poverty and Insecurity written by Shildrick, Tracy and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize for 2013 How do men and women get by in times and places where opportunities for standard employment have drastically reduced? Are we witnessing the growth of a new class, the 'Precariat', where people exist without predictability or security in their lives? What effects do flexible and insecure forms of work have on material and psychological well-being? This book is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between social exclusion, poverty and the labour market. It challenges long-standing and dominant myths about ‘the workless’ and ‘the poor’, by exploring close-up the lived realities of life in low-pay, no-pay Britain. Work may be ‘the best route out of poverty’ sometimes but for many people getting a job can be just a turn in the cycle of recurrent poverty – and of long-term churning between low-skilled ‘poor work’ and unemployment. Based on unique qualitative, life-history research with a 'hard-to-reach group' of younger and older people, men and women, the book shows how poverty and insecurity have now become the defining features of working life for many.
Download or read book An assessment of industrial employment skill gaps among university graduates written by Mirza, Faisal Mehmood and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this study is to examine different assessments of employers and students about job skills leading to differences defined as skill, employability, and perception gaps based on surveys of 100 industrial employers and 151 final year students from 6 universities and postgraduate colleges in the Gujrat-Sialkot-Gujranwala industrial cluster. Factor analysis grouped 24 specific skills into the three interpretable categories: communication and business specific skills, core employability skills, and professional skills. The results suggest gaps in all three respects for each of the skill categories. Employers were least satisfied with the professional skill s of new employees compared to their scores on the importance of these skills. Students also scored their own professional skills lower than the importance of these skills in the job market. Smaller but similar differences arise for the other skill categories.Students generally gave higher nominal scores to the importance of all skills than were given by employers. When disaggregated by discipline, students in more technical fields (engineering, computer science, and IT), which are supposed to possess high level of technical skills, claim a shortage of these skills, whereas students from economics, commerce and business administration indicated they were neither sound in professional skills nor the softer skills. Close coordination among all stakeholders through internship programs for students, development and timely revision of market oriented curricula, and special skill enhancement training programs are recommended steps to enhance productive youth employment in Pakistan.
Download or read book Recruiting Unemployed People written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Education and Employment Committee and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report by the Employment Sub-committee focuses on the means by which the Government, the Employment Service and employers can help unemployed people into jobs and jobs that match their abilities and aspirations, and by doing so, extend the range of talents available to employers. The inquiry also wished to determine whether the demand-led approaches to labour market intermediation which have developed in the United States and are being championed by the Government could help to improve the employment prospects of unemployed people and improve their chances of retaining a job once in employment. The report concludes that there are still significant barriers to the recruitment of unemployed people. The most significant are indirectly discriminatory recruitment practices on the part of employers and inadequate skill levels among the unemployed. Progress has been made by the Employment Service in shifting its culture towards becoming a demand-led organisation but more needs to be done especially with regard to the development of a consistently high quality, complete service to employers. The Government needs to become more proactive in the dissemination of best practice around the UK to complement the importation of best practice from abroad. The Employment Service should not become exclusively employer-oriented. It must continue to accord high priority to helping those who are most disadvantaged into work. A number of recommendations are made in the report including a national survey of employer's recruitment practices, improving the links between employers and the long term unemployed, expanding opportunities for work placements and trials for unemployed people and reducing the period for which unemployed people over the age of 25 are required to claim job seeker's allowance before entering New Deal.
Download or read book Employers Recruitment and the Unemployed written by John Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do employers regard the unemployed jobseeker? Do they treat unemployed applicants any differently from the employed ones? As the duration of unemployment rises, do long-term unemployed applicants face extra barriers to landing a job? This research answers these questions by evaluating employers' attitudes towards, recruitment of, and rejection of, unemployed jobseekers. It is concerned with both the long-term unemployed and unemployed people in general. It draws on a representative sample of 800 UK employers, investigated by telephone survey abd face-to-face interview.
Download or read book Education for All written by Richard Pring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two key questions at the heart of the ongoing debate about education and training for all young people, irrespective of background, ability or attainment: What counts as an educated 19 year old today? Are the models of education we have inherited from the past sufficient to meet the needs of all young people, as well as the social and economic needs of the wider community? Education for All addresses these questions in the light of evidence collected over five years by the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training: the most rigorous investigation of every aspect of this key educational phase for decades. Written by the co-directors of the Nuffield Review, Education for All provides a critical, comprehensive and thoroughly readable overview of 14-19 education and training and makes suggestions for the kind of education and training that should be provided over the coming decade and beyond. The authors acknowledge that much has been achieved by the respective governments – massive investment in resources; closer collaboration between schools, colleges, training providers, voluntary agencies and employers; recognition and promotion of a wider range of qualifications. They are also optimistic about the good things that are going on in many secondary classrooms – enormous amounts of creativity; courageous efforts to meet problems; a deep concern and caring for many young people otherwise deprived of hope and opportunity. But they argue for a radical reshaping of the future in the light of a broader vision of education – a greater respect for more practical and active learning; a system of assessment which supports rather than impoverishes learning; respect for the professional expertise of the teacher; a more unified system of qualifications ensuring progression into higher education and employment; the creation of strongly collaborative and local learning systems; and a more reflective and participative approach to policy. Education for All should be read by everyone working in – or with an interest in – secondary-level education in England and Wales and beyond.
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Development Education written by Douglas Bourn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development education is much more than learning about development; it is a pedagogy for the globalised societies of the twenty-first century that incorporates discourses from critical pedagogy and postcolonialism, and a mechanism for ensuring that differing perspectives are reflected within education, particularly those from developing countries. Learning about development and global issues is now part of the school curriculum in a number of countries, and terms such as global citizenship, sustainable development and cultural understanding are commonplace in many educational contexts. Development education has been recognised as one of the educational discourses that has influenced the acceptance of these terms, for both policy-makers and practitioners. This ground-breaking volume addresses the history, theoretical influences, practices and impact of development education in Europe, North America, Australia and Japan. Chapters include how development education evolved, the influence of theorists such as Paulo Freire, the practices of aid and development agencies, and the impact of governments seeking evidence of public understanding of and engagement with development. The Theory and Practice of Development Education provides essential reading for anyone engaged in re-thinking and reflecting upon the educational needs of a globalised society, and seeking approaches towards learning that place social justice at the heart of that practice. It will be of particular interest to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of development education, international education and globalisation.
Download or read book Information Systems and Technology Education From the University to the Workplace written by Lowry, Glenn R. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a multifaceted, global view of the human dynamics of education, supply, demand, and career development in the information systems and technology industry. It provides a tool to meet the challenges of providing improved education and employing an optimal supply of information systems and technology graduates in the decades to come"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book DWP Employers Survey written by Nick Coleman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Employer Engagement in Education written by Anthony Mann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market. The focus is not narrowly on vocational or technical education or work-related learning, but on how employer engagement (eg, work experience, internships, careers education, workplace visits, mentoring, enterprise education etc) influences the experiences and outcomes of the broad range of young people across mainstream academic learning programmes. The essays explore the different ways in which education can support or constrain social mobility and, in particular, how employer engagement in education can have significant impact upon social mobility – both positive and negative. Leading international contributors examine issues surrounding employer engagement and social mobility: conceptualisations of employer engagement; trends in social mobility; employer engagement and social class; access and management of work experience; social capital and aspiration; access to employment. The book makes employer engagement an innovative focus in relation to the well established fields of social mobility and school to work transition. By examining what difference employer engagement makes, the essays raise questions about conventional models and show how research drawing on different fields and disciplines can be brought together to provide a more coherent and convincing account. Building on new theorisations and combining existing and new data, the collection offers a systematic exploration of the influence of socio-economic status on school-to-work transitions, and addresses how educational policy can shape more efficient labour market outcomes. In doing so, it draws on, and speaks to, existing literature which has considered such questions from the perspectives of gender, ethnicity and social disadvantage.
Download or read book Environment and Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employers and the Recruitment of Unemployed People written by Chris Hasluck and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Labor Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1992-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
