That only two out of four hundred jobs in EU will require low-level skills in 2035, pointed out Thursday (19/10) the deputy director of the European Center for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop), Mara Brudzia, speaking at the Western Balkans Civil Society Forum, organized by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), in collaboration with the European Commission, the European Vocational Training Foundation (ETF), the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) and Cedefop.
“The majority of the available job positions will concern high professional qualifications, with Artificial Intelligence to radically change the data” he pointed out.
“Technological innovation extends to all sectors of the economy. Digital skills intensity is also growing very fast in sectors that traditionally needed low skills, such as agriculture. So we have more opportunities for better jobs, but at the same time people with low skills are particularly vulnerable and vulnerable and need to be supported with a preventive education policy” noted Ms. Brugia as reported by the Athens News Agency.
“We are in a time of great uncertainty about changing job demands and the skills that will be needed in the future, as the Artificial Intelligence, which can accelerate developments even more, in an environment already complicated, due to geopolitical tensions and the demographic problem in Europe (…) Early automation had caused a change in routine jobs and the same is happening now with the advent of Artificial Intelligence. The entire workforce in the EU will need reskilling and upskilling,” he said.
Ms Bruggia also highlighted the role that the “green” transition will play in the European labor market in the short and medium term, recalling that, based on an earlier cedefop survey, it is expected to lead to 2 million additional jobs in the EU in the coming years and significantly transform the required skills. “Today many employers complain that they cannot find workers with the right skills, while at the same time there are many employees who have skills, but which they are not given the opportunity to use in their workplace. So in this setting, knowledge about the required skills, partnerships and “localized” skills strategies, could help to exploit the benefits of the transition” added the deputy director of Cedefop.
NEETs are more in the western Balkans
They are NEETs (a term derived from the phrase Not in Employment, Education or Training) and their daily lives are often not easy. These are young people, aged 15 to 29, who are not studying, working or training. And this despite the fact that most of them want to work. In the Western Balkans, the average number of NEETs as a percentage of the population is higher than in the EU. And in most countries in the region, with the exception of Montenegro, female NEETs are at a disadvantage compared to males. The above data were presented at the forum by Hugues Moussy, head of the Performance and Evaluation Systems Unit of the European Vocational Training Foundation (ETF).
Accordingly, at a time when upskilling and reskilling are necessary for all, the proportion of adults aged 25 to 64 who have opportunities to participate in lifelong learning programs is lower in the Western Balkans than in the EU -with women once again at a slight disadvantage. “The higher your educational level when you are young, the more likely your chances are for upskilling and reskilling. The lower, the fewer and that’s a problem we have to look atsaid Mr Musi.
Centanka Adric, president of the Serbian trade union “Nezavisnost”.
“Our industry is mainly based on factories that do not produce finished finished products, but parts of products, also due to the nature of the investments in the country. And this also guides the education system, which is not based on innovation”, but on meeting more traditional needs, as he said.
He added that when we talk about work, we should not only evaluate the percentage of people who are in the labor market, but also the quality of the job in which they are employed. According to Ms Adrik, employers need to create lists of skills and specialties that are in short supply in the labor market, so that unions can help education produce what is missing from the market. At the moment, he said, unions are effectively locked out of monitoring skills demand, although employers could do better to meet their workforce needs through dialogue with unions.
The assessment that Europe emphasizes life-long learning, but lags behind in promoting work, was expressed by the director of the Union of Employers’ Associations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sasa Acic, pointing out that, yes, people do want to learn , but at the same time they wish to apply their knowledge on the “field” of the labor market.
Mr. Asits also pointed out that at a time when young men and women in Europe are “pushed” en masse in digital skills, it is equally important to promote the manual skills and knowledge of artisans, in which there is a shortage in the “Old Continent”. He added that educational systems are resistant to any change and this is a problem.
Source: News Beast
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