JOSEF HORŇÁČEK (Researcher) / JIŘÍ VYHLÍDAL, M.Sc. (Researcher) / IVETA ZELENKOVÁ,
Ph.D. (Researcher) / JIŘÍ WINKLER, Ph.D. (Supervisor) / MAGDA FRIŠAUFOVÁ (Coordinator
of Activities) / LENKA KLIMPLOVÁ, Ph.D. (Project Manager) / JOSEF PITNER, Ph.D. (Consultant,
the Czech Public Employment Services).
Webpage: www.cepres-muni.cz/aktivni-matching/ E-mail: aktivni.matching@seznam.cz
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activePROJECT TEAM
What is innovative on the Swedish approach?
FOCUS ON SKILLS: A substantial part of the investigation of employers in
Sweden is focused on determining future skill needs (the essential competences
required by employers for carrying out work tasks). The Czech model has
so far focused only on the identification of formal qualification needs, not on
specific competences.
SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS CARRIED OUT BY EMPLOYMENT OFFICE
(EO) STAFF: The investigation is carried out by the EO staff in Sweden. It is valuable
because experience and information acquired from interviews with
employers can later be used in their daily work. An employers’ survey in the
Czech Republic has so far been based on self-completed postal questionnai-
res.
IT SYSTEMS: In Sweden, there are special IT systems that allow the recording
of data from interviews with employers and link them with job seeker information
(i.e. active matching).
Based on these findings, the interview guidelines have been designed to include
questions on skill needs for different occupations in the short-term as
well as in the long-term perspective. Selected staff of the EOs in the researched
region of South Moravia were trained to be interviewers in the pilot in-
vestigation.
* Organizations selected through stratified random sampling (i.e. with regard to sectors of the national
economy, NACE categories)
** Organizations selected deliberately – the largest employers in the chosen region
The sample includes organizations in the following districts: Brno-city, Brnocountryside,
Blansko and Hodonín. These districts were selected with regard
to their size, the level of unemployment and the prevailing economic sector
(industrial vs. agricultural districts).
RESULTS FROM STEP 1 AND 2
- Evaluation of the pilot investigation to assess the validity and usefulness of
collected information (interviews with the interviewers)
- Evaluation of the matching process via interviews with the EO agents who
matched job seekers and vacancies based on collected information from the
employers
- Evaluation of the utility of collected information for labour market counseling
and ALM planning
PLAN FOR ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATED METHOD (Step 4)
METHODOLOGY OF PILOT INVESTIGATION (STEP 3)
-Semi-structured interviews with 200 employers in the South Moravian
Region
- Interviews have been carried out by selected staff of the EOs in the researched
region in October and November 2013
- Sample:
This poster has been prepared within the project of international cooperation between Masaryk
University in Brno, Czech Republic and Arbetsförmedlingen (PES), Sweden. The project
(OP LZZ/5.1/77/00400) is financed from the ESF via the Human Resources and
Employment Operational Programme and the state budget of the Czech Republic.
South Moravian
Region
Number of employees
Number of organizaƟons in
South Moravian region
Number of
organizaƟon in the
sample
Coverage
10 – 49 5.486 147 * 2,7%
50 – 249 1.214 33 * 2,7%
250 + 228 20 ** 8,8%
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PROJECT STEPS
1. Comparison and evaluation of Czech and Swedish methodology for monitoring,
analysing and predicting the skills and qualification needs in regional
labour markets.
2. Construction of an innovated method based on best practices from both of
the models.
3. Pilot investigation of 200 employers in the South Moravian Region to find
out and specify the demanded skills for different occupations in the shortterm
(up to one year) as well as in the long-term (3 years) perspective.
4. Assessment of the functionality and applicability of the innovated method
and investigation findings in the practices of the Czech PES.
5. Dissemination of project outcomes.
6. Drafting a certified methodology for monitoring, analysis and prognosis of
skill and qualification needs in Czech regional labour markets.
PROJECT STEPS
Thorough knowledge and understanding of the skills requested by employers
is one of the key preconditions for the adequate allocation of job seekers
to vacancies as well as for the improvement of activities carried out by
labour market institutions.
Therefore we would like to develop a method for finding out what skills are required
by employers in the regional labour markets and bring out recommendations
on how to work with collected information within the Public Employment
Services (PES) in the Czech Republic to bring about a more effective
matching process, counselling practices and ALM planning.
- To identify, compare and evaluate the tools (methods) for the monitoring,
analysis and prognosis of skill and qualification needs in regional labour markets
in the Czech Republic and Sweden
- To innovate the method using the best of both models (Czech and Swedish)
and to test the functionality and applicability of the innovated method under
the conditions of regional labour markets in the Czech Republic
- To draw recommendations, once the applicability has been assessed, for implementation
in Czech labour market counselling practice and suggest
a more effective matching process
PROJECT AIMS
BACKGROUND
Active Matching
Strategic Support of Labour Market Counselling
Lenka Klimplová, Ph.D., Project Manager / Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic