Enhance Ireland's Labor Market with Competitiveness and Skills

As my clients come to see me to help them to find work through either training or employability skills it is important that I have had information on the local labour market, job roles and training courses for them to browse. I also have information, that from my experiences within the employment and welfare to work sectors I have found to be useful to clients when exploring the reasons that they are currently unemployed. Such information is on benefits, local authorities, counselling services, childcare provision, support groups and volunteering resources. I also have established links with a large number of third sector and employability agencies that I am able to refer and signpost clients to.

Supply of labour needs to be taken into consideration by human resources on a local, national and international scale. Different types of labour have become obsolete, some more scarce and others have become more saturated because of its demand for example service industries have become more demanded whilst mining has become a more scarce trait. This means training has become more of an issue because its important employees has the correct skills especially in an organisation that is not as common locally because employee will not have the appropriate skills. Regionally some industries more popular depending on the area therefore training may not be as demanded. Some industries have products/services that are trends whether its long term/ short term meaning training required either way but may not apply to the industry for long if the trend ceases.

Full employment is the point in an economy, where everyone who is willing and able to work is in a job. A labour market policy the government could implement to help reach full employment could be the rise in the compulsory age for people in training or education. The effect of this will be that people will have better skills when

problem at hand is the rising rate of unemployment. This problem must be dealt with

Youth unemployment has been a constant problem in Australia for decades. In Treasurer Scott Morrison and the Coalition’s 2016-17 budget, a new plan focusing on helping young people join the workforce aims to drastically lower the youth unemployment rate over the next few years: the ‘Youth Jobs PaTH Program’. The $752 million dollar program aims to help up to 120,000 vulnerable young people over the next four years (Budget 2016-17, Queensland Government). However, there is a concern how effective the scheme will be, due to its emphasis on purely internships. Many argue that the Coalition’s youth unemployment scheme ‘Working Futures’ is a better option to lower youth unemployment, for its alternative structure and focus. To decide which one is best for Australia, both the Coalition and Labor Party’s scheme will be judged by analysing their social impacts upon the Australian youth.

Within todays ever-changing working society, training and development is a key part within any organisation. Employees are the main capital within organisations which suggests

However, life has changed, globalization and feminism have had a huge impact on the work environment all around the world. Technology has also made many jobs easier, yet very, very similar. Because of these changes, unemployment has become an issue all around the globe. The government views the unemployment situation as an individual problem.  From the government’s perspective, unemployment is due to the lack of training of the individual.  However, because

Today is August 26, 2014 and this is John Grundy providing debriefing notes from sitting in on three different intake sessions at the London Employment Health Center with Amy Thompson. So, there were three different sessions and the three were all somewhat different. The first intake session was for a man around 30 years old from Iran who had just arrived in Canada, so he is a newcomer and he had been in Canada for three weeks. In Iran he was a certified engineer, so he was looking for opportunities in engineering, building construction and land surveying, which was something that he did a lot.

Matthew Hancock MP Minister of state for skills and Enterprise Apprenticeships; FE and 16-19 careers.

Now unemployed, he or she does not know how he or she will be supported, losing hope especially if he or she is unable to receive another job and have the ability to support his or her

Consequently the corporate plan focuses on twenty three priority objectives. Employment Training’s activities have direct links with ten of these objectives including: regeneration of local communities, promoting increased prosperity, supporting disabled and elderly people to live

Employment Services – education, training and employment opportunities to enhance individual employability and develop skills for long time employment. These include:

Furthermore, Nicholson and West (1990) argue that ‘in spite of research showing that moving from education to employment is typically not traumatic, it is probably the case that, on average, young people making a first transition from (full-time) education to (full-time) employment will have more learning to do than more experienced job-changers.’ (Arnold, 1997 pp.167-168.) Therefore, they have developed a ‘Transition Cycle,’ which involves four phases:

Unemployment is recognised as one of the most challenging social problems currently facing Australia. In the last two decades and more recently with the global recession high levels of unemployment have become an established feature of the South Australian social and economic landscape, with young people aged 15 to 24 years among those hardest hit by unemployment.

• a need for policy planning to improve education across the board in Ireland, at all levels