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Title: Youth Employment in Cyprus


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Youth Employment in Cyprus
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Labour Market Situation
  • Conditions of nearly full employment with high
    participation and employment rates
  • Employment rate (2006) 69.6 overall (men
    79.4, women 60.3)
  • Unemployment rate (2006) 4.5 overall (men
    3.9, women 5.4)
  • Main Challenge Young persons employability (age
    15-24 years old)
  • Low employment rates (2006) 37.4 overall (men
    41.0, women34.1 )
  • High unemployment rates (2006) 10.0 overall
    (men 8.9, women 11.1)

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Enhancement and modernization of Public
Employment Services (1)
  • Measure Promoted by the Department of Labour
  • Aim The development of structures that will
    contribute to the implementation of a preventive
    and employability-oriented strategy
  • PES will be moving towards active engagement with
    workers and employers leading to the elimination
    of inefficiencies and imbalances in the labour
    market.
  • Provision of quality and timely services to the
    public and a more personalised approach to
    job-seekers and those to belong to vulnerable
    social groups, eg young persons

4
Enhancement and modernization of Public
Employment Services (2)
  • Activities include
  • Modernisation and upgrading of buildings of the
    District Employment Offices and the gradual
    expansion of the Offices network
  • Introduction of information technology systems
  • Enhancement of PES in terms of additional
    personnel and training, so that the Services are
    able to offer preventive, personalised and
    quality services.

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Personalized Approach Service
  • Aim Help young job seekers and those who belong
    to vulnerable groups, including young unemployed,
    women wishing to enter the labour market,
    recipients of public assistance and persons with
    disabilities to integrate or reintegrate into the
    labor market and secure their sustainability in
    the market for the long term.
  • Recruitment of Employment Counselors trained to
    provide active support to vulnerable groups

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Employment Counselors
  • Sketch the personal profile of each job-seeker
  • Draft a respective and bilaterally agreed upon
    Personal Action Plan for employment
  • Consider the special skills, educational level
    the needs for vocational training and education
    of job seekers
  • Provide career guidance come into contact both
    with the job seekers as well as with businesses
    for their effective interconnection.
  • Monitor the course of accession of the user of
    this structures system of services into the
    productive process until he/she is settled in an
    employment post

7
Provision of Information for training and
Employment Opportunities
  • Provision of information on available training
    programmes and employment schemes
  • Promotion of appropriate programmes focusing on
    training of the youth in occupations with high
    demand and with a simultaneous emphasis on
    information and communication technologies (ICT).

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Conduction of a Study concerning young persons
  • Aim Analysing the current labour market
    situation of young persons
  • Providing suggestions for the development of
    targeted programs for promoting the employment of
    young persons

9
Introduction of Self Service in PES
  • Introduction of new information technology
    systems which
  • Provides the potential of self-service in
    searching/securing a job
  • Acquiring information for occupations and
    opportunities for training and employment

10
Training of Personnel
  • Participation of all PES personnel in training
    programs with the aim to increase their ability
    to offer services of high quality
  • Study visits/ placements of PES personnel in
    other PES abroad with the aim of mutual learning
    and the exchange of good practices

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Vocational guidance
  • Aim the provision of high quality carrer/
    vocational guidance
  • Development of specialised methods and tools for
    vocational guidance which will be provided within
    the framework of the provision of personilised
    approach services.

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