The latest episode of PESPod, the podcast of the PES Network, explores how Lithuania's Employment Service is giving frontline staff greater responsibility to respond to local needs and drive organisational change.
The PES Network has added 15 new practices to its PES Practices database, showcasing how Public Employment Services across Europe are responding to labour market changes and evolving skills needs.
The PES Network has released a new study examining how Public Employment Services (PES) can support individuals across their working lives in labour markets shaped by digitalisation, green transitions, demographic shifts and non-linear career trajectories.
The purpose of this study is to support strategic decision-making within the PES Network, particularly by informing stakeholders about the evolving role and strategic value of lifelong career guidance.
The European Labour Market Barometer stagnates at 99.9 points in September. The leading indicator of the European Network of Public Employment Services and the IAB thus remains just below the neutral mark of 100 points.
President Ursula von der Leyen highlighted the upcoming Quality Jobs Act. She also announced a European Care Deal, investment in regions to support the ‘right to stay’, continued action on housing and a summit on the European Pillar of Social Rights.
The European Commission adopted the Fair Labour Mobility package to guarantee clear social rights for everyone, everywhere in the EU, regardless of where they choose to live and work.
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Europe is changing – and so is EURES. Digital advances, the green transition and an ageing population are reshaping Europe’s labour markets across the continent. In response, EURES has developed its Strategy 2030 to continue delivering meaningful services to workers and employers while reinforcing its role as a key network supporting fair labour mobility.
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Cedefop has updated its Skills Forecast, an interactive tool providing quantitative projections of employment trends up to 2035 by country, sector and occupation across the EU-27, as well as Iceland, Norway, the Republic of North Macedonia, Switzerland and Türkiye. Drawing on macro-economic modelling and harmonised international data, the Skills Forecast enables cross-country comparisons and supports more coherent policy design at EU, national and sectoral levels.
What are the key skill strengths and gaps across Europe’s regions? On 8 October, the European Skills and VET Week will host the launch of a new tool that makes regional skills data easier to explore and compare.
The practice brings together employers and jobseekers as anonymous teammates in sports challenges removing recruitment biases to create a soft-skills-based recruitment process through sports activities.
Intreo (PES Ireland) provides jobseekers with work placements, training and mentoring in private and public organisations to help participants to develop skills and promote labour market integration.
Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal (SEPE) (PES Spain) supports young people and jobseekers to build skills, gain work experience and improve access to employment through combined training and work-based learning delivered through projects of public and community value.
The CDF is Denmark’s national data infrastructure system for the standardised registration, exchange and use of employment-service data across organisations administering employment services (municipalities, insurance funds, the Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment (STAR) (PES Denmark), authorised social and education authorities, citizens and employer platforms.
Agence pour le Développement de l’Emploi (ADEM) (PES Luxembourg is piloting an algorithm to match curriculum vitae (CVs) to job vacancies based on skills.
