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Connecting people to jobs

The current labour market arrangements are not as efficient as they could be.  Information is fragmented, flexibility is constrained and the transition on to and off benefits is more complex than it need be.

Do you feel that the internet offers an opportunity to solve some of these problems, or that temporary work can help people bridge gaps in employment?  What else could be done and should be done to make the labour market even more efficient and help connect people to jobs?

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Subject Date Rating  
Fairer pay 08/02/2010 9  
Lot's of options to improve! 08/02/2010 9  
Jobcentre changes needed 08/02/2010 9  
Flexible on skillset 08/02/2010 9  
benefits should support working 08/02/2010 9  
Value transferable skills 08/02/2010 9  
Skills development 08/02/2010 9  
Adult trainee positions 08/02/2010 9  
Allow training without losing benefits 08/02/2010 9  
Government support 08/02/2010 9  
Experience equal to qualifications 08/02/2010 9  
Update JCP! 08/02/2010 9  
Better training for Job Centre staff. 08/02/2010 9  
One form 08/02/2010 9  
Speed up recruitment 08/02/2010 9  
National Youth Service + 100% completion = guaranteed job 05/03/2010 9  
On the job training 08/02/2010 9  
Business Studies included in School Curriculum 26/02/2010 9  
National skills database 08/02/2010 9  
Online jobcentre application 08/02/2010 9  
Impossible to come home 08/02/2010 9  
Emergency benefits 08/02/2010 9  
Agencies 08/02/2010 8  
Be firm on equality 08/02/2010 8  
Trials 08/02/2010 8  
Experience should be equal to qualifications 08/02/2010 8  
Take a chance 08/02/2010 8  
Life experience not exams 08/02/2010 8  
Tax incentives and grants 08/02/2010 8  
Agency experience for job seekers 08/02/2010 8  
Support career changes 08/02/2010 8  
SME Support 08/02/2010 8  
Suport learning at a company 08/02/2010 8  
Break qualifications barriers 08/02/2010 8  
Local jobs only JC 08/02/2010 8  
Facilitate real innovation 08/02/2010 8  
Automatic placements 08/02/2010 8  
Comemrcial candidate advise 08/02/2010 8  
Improve adult education 08/02/2010 8  
Benefits pause 08/02/2010 8  
Job seekers allownace bridge transitions 08/02/2010 8  
Stop 'tick boxing' 08/02/2010 8  
Trained recruiters at job centres 08/02/2010 8  
Standardise recruitment systems 08/02/2010 7  
Arrange job interviews Job centre! 08/02/2010 7  
Crazy legislation! 08/02/2010 7  
Better intern incentives 08/02/2010 7  
Choose attitude above skills 17/02/2010 7  
Integration of Foreigners. 17/02/2010 7  
Less Hostility more positive attitude 19/02/2010 7  
         

Featured Ideas

Carey Oppenheim
Co-Director
Institute for Public Policy Research
 Connecting welfare-to-work services to local labour markets
Rob Owen
Chief Executive
St Giles Trust
 Encourage employers to hire ex-prisoners
Jonathan Kestenbaum
Chief Executive
NESTA
 Help highly skilled unemployed people get back into work
Peter Jones CBE
 Create a new Enterprise Apprenticeship to connect young people to the right job and business opportunities
Ali Clabburn
 The Government should encourage car-sharing to help people get to work
David Frost
Director General
British Chambers of Commerce
 The government should reduce employer costs rather than increasing them
 
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