Ministry of Employment and Labour (2004), Project document of the Employment Skills Training Project.

(i) The implications of technological change for employment and skills

Promoting youth employment and skills development in the context of globalization

She combined employment experience and training with life skills they needed,

Investments in employment programs Job Connect links Ontarians, primarily unemployed youth between the ages of 16 to 24, to employment and training opportunities and Literacy and Basic Skills Program helps learners gain the literacy and numeracy skills they need to improve their employment.

This mismatch between skills supplied and demanded represents a serious drag on employment growth.

In addition, the Government would provide job search assistance, skills development and private sector employment incentives.

Also, more should be done to link education to employment possibilities and to develop technical skills.

The training of rural youth for self employment scheme is designed to specifically train rural youth in skills to enable them to take up self employment.

An individual's inability to consume food because of poor health, lack of employment or skills to avail herself of employment opportunities all constitute human development failures.

c) Life skills education in the areas of HIV AIDS, smoking, economic self sufficiency and securing employment

The areas of this development include health, sanitation, education, the skills required for self employment, and recreation.

The reintegration programme includes the promotion of educational activities, a skills training and employment programme and livelihood support.

Poor people, often African Americans, cannot find jobs or have returned from military service without skills or employment contacts.

The four main areas of intervention were employment and entrepreneurial skills political participation violence against women and institutional strengthening.

Moreover, in cooperation with the International Labour Organization, UNDP began the implementation of the Skills Training for Gainful Employment Programme.

High tech services demand specialized skills and create few jobs, so their contribution to aggregate employment is bound to remain limited.

During the reporting period, the Centre offered various skills training for both males and females, of whom 12 thereafter found employment.

Much, therefore, depends on matching the employment opportunities that are created with the skills, capabilities and assets possessed by the poor.

Many countries have increased funding for vocational training and introduced courses to link vocational training with self employment or entrepreneurial skills.

It opens new markets, permits the expansion of productive capacity, skills and technology transfer, and generates higher levels of income and employment.

A strong skills base also promotes productivity, incomes and access to employment opportunities through adaptability to change and the capacity to innovate.

The second goal was to equip the population with employment related skills through a comprehensive programme of school reform at all levels.

Reports mention measures to improve employment services, such as job fairs, job centres, information dissemination and improving the job seeking skills of candidates.

The majority of people receiving income assistance need literacy programs, academic or skills developments and the Community Services Employment Supports focuses on these needs.

The project provides scholarship assistance to the refugees to acquire vocational skills at post secondary level in order to increase their chances of employment.

They've got incredible people skills, negotiating skills.

Victimized by an educational system that collapsed over a decade ago, they have few skills that can help them find employment in Iraq s blighted economy.

Nearly 130,000 services (e.g., employment counselling, job search, resume writing) were provided to these clients, wherein over 57,000 involved formal skills development or job exposure.

Education above the secondary level has a significant vocational training component so as to enable youth to acquire skills that would augment avenues for employment.

Training activities are conducted in various fields to improve the skills and abilities of young people who leave school and guide them towards decent employment.

In contrast, in high unemployment and slow growth environment, even if workers have accumulated knowledge and skills, there may be limited labour mobility and employment.

Work on your own skills. Your own skills!

And it turns out the skills of happiness, the skills of the pleasant life, the skills of engagement, the skills of meaning, are different from the skills of relieving misery.

3.2.3 A project by the name of Employment Skills Training Project' is being conducted by the Ministry of Employment and Labour to reduce the gap between employer demand for qualified workers and the supply of appropriate qualified Maldivian labour.

Skills Link provides funding to community organizations to help youth facing barriers to employment develop the knowledge and work experience they need to find a job.

Education and training were a central pillar of the ILO decent work agenda, since skills development was a key element in the promotion of productive employment.

Fostering social integration requires tools to empower individuals, including through education, by providing people with the skills to participate in society and to engage in productive employment.

A standardized merit system requires that all employees enter through the same procedures and receive an offer of employment based only on their talent, skills and knowledge.

Here, the structures and the accompanying standardization work to ensure that admission to public employment is determined by skills and knowledge, rather than personal or partisan loyalties.

(d) Support the promotion of decent employment opportunities, rights at work, social protection and social dialogue, as well as raising the quality of work, skills and capabilities

Life skills.

Language skills

Skills required

negotiation skills