New Skills for New Jobs: Action Now

1. New Skills for New Jobs: Action Now ETUC Conference International Trade Union House, Brussels 2 September 2010 Professor Mike Campbell OBE Director of Research and Policy

2. A New Ambition We need a new Ambition, a new ‘Common Sense’: we need New Skills for New Jobs We can and must do better – everyone needs to ‘step up’ Our prosperity depends on Jobs and Productivity: Skills are vital to both

3. Economy Productivity/Competitiveness Employment/Reduced Economic Inactivity Skills Development Individuals Job Entry and Sustainability Wage Return/Progression Job Quality/Satisfaction Employers Productivity Business performance Society Health Improvements Crime Reduction Participation Social Cohesion/Mobility Economically Valuable Skills:The Benefits of Skills Development

4. The Value of Skills Source: OECD (2008) Education at a Glance (most recent data for individual countries)

5. The Value of Skills in the Recession

6. A New Ambition We need a new Ambition, a new ‘Common Sense’: we need New Skills for New Jobs We can and must do better – everyone needs to ‘step up’ Our prosperity depends on Jobs and Productivity: Skills are vital to both Yet Europe’s ‘inconvenient truth’ is that we are not sufficiently skilled

7. EU and OECD Countries: International Skills Benchmarks

8. EU and OECD Countries: International Skills Benchmarks Source: OECD, Education at a Glance 2009, http://statlinks.oecdcode.org/962009061P1G001.xls , data relates to 2007. Note: Distribution of the 25-64 year old population by highest level of education attained. Japan is adjusted compared to the published 2009 data based on the historical proportions published by OECD as data on low skills is no longer collected.

9. A New Ambition We need a new Ambition, a new ‘Common Sense’: we need New Skills for New Jobs We can and must do better – everyone needs to ‘step up’ Our prosperity depends on Jobs and Productivity: Skills are vital to both Yet Europe’s ‘inconvenient truth’ is that we are not sufficiently skilled • Challenges and opportunities are growing more urgent, with major changes in our economy and labour market: demographics, globalisation, technological and social change

10. A New Ambition • Make the Case for Skills • Develop a balanced and coherent Action Programme

11. Bring the worlds of education, training & work closer together! Provide the right incentives for individuals and employers! Develop the right mix of skills! Proposed Lines of Action Action Now ! Better anticipate future skills needs and opening up to talent! Better anticipate future skills needs and opening up to talent!

12. Action Now • Agreement, Engagement and Sustained Commitment of the Social Partners • The role of Trade Unions: • Empowering the Workforce • Reducing Skills and Jobs Inequalities • Sector Councils • Employer Ambition • Business Strategy • Management and Leadership • Economic Policy and a ‘high added value’ economy • The VET Sector

13. Remember ....... ….. and a highly skilled workforce will not only make their own lives richer, it will make all of our lives richer A workforce with poor skills not only makes their own lives poorer, it makes all of our lives poorer