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Building the Skills Employers Need
Funded by the European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion - VP2013/010 ICT Skills for Growth & Jobs
EC funded ProjectFIT Local Coalitions for Europe Deliver Skills for Growth & Jobs (fit4jobs)
A new approach to training & education….Everyone needs and wants to work….It gives people a purpose & interest in life…It creates prosperity for society, employer & employee…We need employers participation in the training process… To guarantee better outcomes for all.
Building the Skills employers needfit4jobs
What is the problem?
Background
Employers need trained ICT staff – can’t find them
Employer participation in the training process is the most effective approach.
Young people are untapped source of resources
24.5m people unemployed in Europe (11.5%)
Training is answer to skills gap, long term and short term
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4.9m young people unemployed in Europe (21.6%)
Major ICT skills gap in Europe, estimated to be ~1m by 2020
fit4jobs is a pan-European project to demonstrate the value of employer participation in vocational training
Benefits for employer: Help demonstrate a better form of vocational training, help specific skills needed (technical and soft skills), access to good candidates for job, change education policy
Success of this training model is due to:
Provision of important soft skills and support to students throughout the training and work processProvision of
It is based on a model developed by FIT (Fast Track to IT) Ireland. The model has been highly successful in Ireland over 13 years. 16,500 people trained, 12,000 in jobs
Participation of employers in setting curricula requirements and providing support through mock interviews, site visits, work experience and job placement.
We plan to select and train over 200 people over six countries and place them in jobs. We need your help
Employer led ICT training for jobs
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Association “Langas į ateitį” (Window to the Future)Lithuanian non profit initiative launched in 2002 by private companies that provides computer literacy and Internet training to adults stimulating the growth of e-services countrywide
Latvian Information and Communication Technology Association (LIKTA), the leading ICT professional non-governmental association promoting the development of Information Society and e-skills in Latvia.
The Spanish Association of Telecentre Networks" (ACRT) brings together a number of entities to impulse, activate and maintain public spaces (telecentres) in order promote the Information Society and provide access to ICT to citizens
Programa Escolhas, a nationwide program, created in 2001 and operating under the High Commission for Migration, aiming to promote social inclusion of children and young people from vulnerable socio-economic backgrounds.
The Hellenic Professionals Informatics Society (HePIS) is a network of all ICT Professionals in Greece advocating their interests at both national and European level.
FIT Ltd (Fast Track to IT) is an industry-led initiative which works in close collaboration with the (Irish) government departments and national education and training agencies, local development organisations and a host of community based organisations.
Telecentre Europe is a member-based association representing networks and NGO’s in the field of digital skills, social inclusion and adult ICT education providers
• Brand support and association• Curricula definition/required skills• Technical and soft skills• Candidate assessment & selection • On site visits, work experience• Survey data• Job Placements• Be an integral part of the process
What we need from employers
Benefits to employer
• Participate in Pan European pilot to promote improved vocational training model
• Demonstrate employer participation is essential• Access to graduates who meet your needs• Help inform policy makers re: vocational training
Employer/Student EngagementThe essential ingredient for effective ICT training.
• Employer know best what skills are needed.
• Employer knows best what soft skills are essential
• Matching skills to jobs becomes easier.
• Successful outcomes for all• Student, employer, educators,
governments, economy
A simple but effective training model
EmployersSpecify required
skills
Graduates with right
skills Jobs
