Synerjob: A vision of employment for 2020
Bringing together the principal European actors in employment around the table, this 1 December the Forem and the partners of Synerjob organised the conference “The Vision for Public Employment Services (PES) for 2020”. The subjects covered went from new assistance processes and career development management to synergies between training, orientation and employment.
For several years the non-profit organisation (asbl) “Synerjob” has been bringing together the Belgian institutions for employment and training. Starting from a common sensitivity to a series of themes connected with the labour market, “Synerjob” has taken shape over the years in order to facilitate exchanges and promote joint projects without slowing down due to a skills boundary. It is in this spirit of “good practices” therefore that the Belgian public services for employment and training invited their European counterparts.
This conference is far from being insignificant insofar as the issues connected with employment directly affect the future of Europe: a Europe called upon to promote not only the mobility and the transitions of its citizens, but also to harmonise their know-how and their skills, and in the same way their prospects for individual development.
The range of this conference will move past the role traditionally assigned to the Public Employment Services consisting of managing the supply and demand for jobs to concentrate more on the innovative vision of the PES as stewards of the labour market.
In fact, the labour market is experiencing specific dynamics and evolutions, concerning both its components and its actors. The future labour market will require new abilities, skills and qualifications for all types and all levels of activities. Faced with this increasing complexity, in the next ten years the PES will be real actors in the regulation of the labour market that will not only stress each person’s human potential but will provide true career management, whatever the path taken by job seekers.
