Employment in the EU is projected to grow by about 2% over the period 2013-2020 but the (EU’s) target of 75% of people aged 20 to 64 being in a job by 2020 looks beyond reach.
This is the result of the crisis, followed by a modest recovery and average GDP growth rate in the EU of 2.0% a year. But there are big differences in the forecasts for employment growth in the different Member States. In Luxembourg, employment should grow by just over 1% a year between now and 2020. In contrast, in Germany, employment is expected to fall by 0.2% a year.
These data come from the baseline scenario of Cedefop’s latest skill supply and demand forecasts, which are now available online...
The forecast data point to the overall share of the labour force with no or low level qualifications as falling from 22% in 2013 to 16.8% in 2020. This indicates that the share of young people leaving school with low or no qualifications will fall.
2014 Cedefop’s skill forecast data are available on its website at: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/about-cedefop/projects/forecasting-skill-demand-and-supply/skills-forecasts.aspx
And the EU Skills Panorama at: http://euskillspanorama.cedefop.europa.eu/. More...

Greece’s participation in a survey of adult skills organised by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with the support of the European Commission was launched on 31 March at the Mapping skills shortages, planning the future, conference in Athens.
The survey, known as ‘survey of adult skills’ (PIAAC), will assess the level of proficiency in key foundation skills among approximately 5 000 adults and the extent to which these skills are used in the workplace. Greece, along with eight other countries including Chile, Turkey and New Zealand is taking part in the second round of the survey. The first round covered 24 countries, including France, Germany and the USA. More...

Employment in the EU is projected to grow by about 2% over the period 2013-2020 but the (EU’s) target of 75% of people aged 20 to 64 being in a job by 2020 looks beyond reach.
This is the result of the crisis, followed by a modest recovery and average GDP growth rate in the EU of 2.0% a year. But there are big differences in the forecasts for employment growth in the different Member States. In Luxembourg, employment should grow by just over 1% a year between now and 2020. In contrast, in Germany, employment is expected to fall by 0.2% a year.
These data come from the baseline scenario of Cedefop’s latest skill supply and demand forecasts, which are now available online. The forecasts cover the period 2013 to 2025, but as the mid-point of Europe’s 2020 strategy, launched in 2010, approaches, this analysis uses the forecast data to consider whether the EU’s benchmarks for employment and educational attainment set out in the strategy, will be met by 2020.
More information can be found here. More...

Quelles sont les compétences d'aujourd'hui permettant de rester en phase avec demain ? C'est ce qu'a cherché à savoir LinkedIn, en questionnant des PDG de divers secteurs d’activité. Santé, énergie, médias : tous ont à peu près le même avis sur la question.
Le monde du travail est en constante évolution. Le numérique mais aussi les nouvelles manières de travailler ont bouleversé de nombreux secteurs d’activité. LinkedIn a donc demandé à des leaders d'opinion - principalement des PDG - "ce qu'il fallait pour réussir dans ces industries en constante évolution". More...

By Louise Brown. OECD's latest assessment ranks Canadian students ahead of most of the West in many skills thought most important by 21st century employers. Canadian teens outshone their English-speaking peers around the world on a new global test of the problem-solving skills that employers call the secret to a strong economy. While they slipped slightly on the last international math test, Canadian 15-year-olds ranked seventh among 44 countries — beaten only by Singapore, Japan, Korea and four regions of China — on this new test of “creative problem-solving skills,” to be released Tuesday as part of the OECD’s latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA.) More...

By Eddie Small. Kevin Floerke has been down this road before.
A student at Santa Rosa Junior College in Northern California, Floerke, 26, already graduated in 2010 from UCLA, where he majored in archaeology. This time, however, unlike many other people in his field, he's not interested in getting yet another degree. He's just trying to master a set of techniques and technologies that will help him verify the details he finds while doing fieldwork.
"I'm really there to learn the program itself and be able to use it in a professional setting," he said. Floerke, who leads tours for the National Geographic Society, is part of a group of students known as "skill builders," who are using conventional colleges in an unconventional way: not to obtain degrees, but simply to learn specific kinds of expertise without spending time or money on courses they don't think they need. More...

This paper has been commissioned by the European social partners ETUC, BUSINESSEUROPE, CEEP and UEAPME, in relation to external expertise on “Skills needs in greening economies”.
It serves to underline the important role played by trade unions, employers’ organisations and individual employers in supporting the Europe 2020 strategy’s goal of turning the EU into a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy capable of delivering high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion. It explores a selection of different and emerging models of social partner participation and engagement in the transition towards a low-carbon economy. It is based on the four priorities of the 2002 Framework of Actions for the lifelong development of competencies and qualifications:

• identification and anticipation of competencies5 and qualification needs;
• recognition and validation of competencies and qualifications6;
• information, support and guidance; and
• mobilising resources for the lifelong development of competencies.

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