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“Only the labour market knows which skills are needed”

Swedish employers are in desperate need of people to fill positions within many different occupations. Meanwhile, more than 340,000 people are registered with the employment service. The problem is that the job seekers’ knowledge often does not match the needs of the employer.

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Ingegerd Green: has been a proponent for skills development within industry for her whole professional life, and has taken part in several projects organised by the Nordic network for adult learning (NVL)(picture above).

Increasing labour shortage

Employment in Sweden is set to rise with 149,000 people in total this year and the next. Unemployment among native born Swedes is at its lowest level since the 2008 finance crisis. This year unemployment is set to fall from 7 percent to 6.6 percent, but it will probably rise somewhat next year. The reason is that more foreign born people register as job seekers, and many of them are far removed from the labour market.

Meanwhile, prognosis from the employment service shows eight in ten new jobs go to people born abroad, and that the employment figure is rising with two percentage points.

“This is very good news when so many newly arrived are entering the labour market,” according to the employment service’s Director-General Mikael Sjöberg.

Source: The Swedish Public Employment service prognosis, published in June 2017. It is based on interviews with private and public employers from across the country.

Nordic network for adult learning, NVL: is administrated by Skills Norway, the Norwegian Agency for Lifelong Learning, on commission from the Nordic Council of Ministers.

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