How to fill the skills-mismatch in the EU? Through qualified jobs, it seems to be the answer. Europe needs skills that are not thaught in schools, but are usually learned through concrete and informal experiences. According to an analysis conducted by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training “European skills and jobs”, many of the skills Europe needs for sustainable economic recovery will be learned at work.
Unemployment and unqualified jobs
One of the problems of the crisis it is that some employees are over-qualified for their jobs: 25% of employed adults. During their carrier, for roughly 47% Europeans technologies changed dramatically since the time they started their job. While 21% of employees estimate that several of their skills will become outdated in the next five years.
Furthermore, there are approximately 26% of employees with a relevant deficit for whom it would be necessessary to provide training.
That’s a phenomenon occurring in fast-evolving sectors , but at the meantime even employees in semi-skilled occupations have seen their jobs changing, with an increasing demand for greater variety of tasks.
It is clear that quality occupations that offer learning opportunities represent a sign of a healthy labour market in the EU. << Skill mismatch is two-sided : people need to have the right skills for the job , but good jobs can be enablers of long-term carrers>> Cedefop General Director James Calleja said.
According to the study, since the 2008 recession not only jobs have been reduced by the financial crisis, but also mismatch increased. Many people in the EU had to take jobs below their skill level to cope with the increasing unemployment rate.
Cedefop in its survey verified that a quarter of tertiary education graduates are over-qualified with rispect to their current occupations .
Flexible and temporary jobs often do not facilitate the development of new competences. As noted in the report, an unemployed person tends to come back to the labour market for temporary jobs that require less qualifications and offer few opportunities of learning and training.
In Cedefop’s opinion accepting an unqualified job may compromise skill formation and leave a mark on future opportuinities.
One in five adult workers have failed to develop their skills since they started their careers and in most of the cases they are in dead-end positions with limited opportuinities to improve their qualifications.
In general, almost 41% of jobs involve tasks requiring basic literacy, 58% basic math and 33% of employees need basic ITC competences.
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How to fill the skills-mismatch in the EU? Through qualified jobs, it seems to be the answer. Europe needs skills that are not thaught in schools, but are usually learned through concrete and informal experiences. According to an analysis conducted by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training “European skills and jobs”, many of the skills Europe needs for sustainable economic recovery will be learned at work.
