New Skills for New Jobs
Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs
European Commission (December 2008)
In its Communication New Skills for New Jobs the European Commission proposes a series of actions for better job matching and more effective ways to analyse and predict skills required in tomorrow’s labour market. In response to the European Commission mandate, the Commission includes in this communication a first assessment of future skills requirements up to 2020.
Labour market and the skills people need change ever fast. The Commission is proposing both to improve the monitoring of short-term trends and to develop tools for better matching of skills and job vacancies on the European market in the longer term. A series of actions are suggested to organise skills assessment on a permanent basis, to pool efforts of Member States and other international organisations, and to develop better information on future needs.
The assessment of skills needs up to 2020 highlights that almost three quarters of jobs in Europe will be in services; many jobs will be in high-skilled occupations, and transversal and generic skills will be increasingly valued
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