AMS info 288: AMS Standing Committee on New Skills 2013 - english version

"(...) In October 2009, the Administrative Board of Public Employment Service Austria (AMS) set up an AMS Standing Committee on New Skills. Since that time, the Committee has continually initiated projects that aim to identify changes in needs for qualifications in collaboration with experts from companies. Based on these projects, the Committee develops continuing education and training (CET) programmes to make it easier for jobseekers to re-enter the world of work. These CET programmes are based on cluster-specific catalogues of modules that, since the autumn 2011, have become part of the AMS course plan and have since undergone further development and optimisation to ensure a continuous improvement of the target group-appropriate course design. This report aims to summarise the results of a follow-up phase in 2013, during which one workshop each was organised for the following eight company clusters (in alphabetical order):
• construction and building ecology
• office and administration
• chemistry and plastics
• electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications
• energy and environmental engineering
• commerce
• machinery, motor vehicles, metal
• tourism and wellness
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