Leveraging training skills development in SMEs: An analysis of OSTIM organised industrial zone, Turkey
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International organizations
Information is gathered from other international organizations that promote skills development and the transition from education and training to work. The Interagency Group on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (IAG-TVET) was established in 2009 to share research findings, coordinate joint research endeavours, and improve collaboration among organizations working at the international and national levels.
Anticipating and matching skills needs
Anticipating and building skills for the future is essential to a rapidly changing labour market. This applies to changes in the types and levels of skills needed as well as in occupational and technical areas. Effective methods to anticipate future skills needs and avoid potential mismatches include: sustained dialogue between employers and trainers, coordination across government institutions, labour market information systems, employment services and performance reviews of training institutions.
Career guidance and employment services
Career guidance and counselling, career education and lifelong development of skills for employability are key for success in learning activities, effective career transitions, livelihood planning, entrepreneurship and in increasing labour market participation. They are instrumental in promoting skills utilization, recognition (RPL), as well as in improving enterprise human resource management.
Career development activities encompass a wide variety of support activities including career information and advice, counselling, work exposure (e.g. job shadowing, work experience periods), assessment, coaching, mentoring, professional networking, advocacy, basic and employability skills training (curricular and non-curricular) and entrepreneurship training. It is often an area which is fragmented across different ministries (e.g. education, TVET, employment, youth) requiring an effort to achieve the necessary coordination to provide adequate support to individuals during learning, employment and unemployment/inactivity periods.
Research papers
Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.
The project mainly investigated both the formal/vocational education and training (VET), and informal learning resulting from daily activities of firms related to work that is not organised in terms of objectives, time or learning support (the so-called 'Knowledge Intensive Service Activities' or KISA). The research conducted for this purpose consisted of the questionnaire surveys (which were responded to by 108 SMEs in OSTIM), the in-depth interviews with five randomly selected firms, and the workshop organised with the stakeholders of trainings and skills development ecosystem. Since OSTIM has four industrial clusters (namely, construction and engineering machines cluster, medical industry cluster, defence industry cluster and renewable energy cluster), developed since 2007, the research also included a comparative analysis of these clusters.
DOI: 10.1787/5kg0vsrz3vhk-en
Enterprises
Skills and training policy
Skills anticipation
Technology
Transferable skills
TVET systems
Europe and Central Asia
