Material of the 10th Annual meeting of the OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Development |23-25 April 2014 | Stockholm, Sweden More info http://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/10th-fplg-meeting.htm

1. OECD presentation Unga Jobb
Swedish Public Employment Service
David Finch

2. Effects of youth unemployment
– Swedbank provides wide entrance even to those who have
weak links to the labor market
– youth get:
Education
Experience
References
Network
Motivation for further studies
– Attitude from legitimate businesses ...
– Swedbank's position in the media important for other
companies' commitment to social responsibility.

3. Young Jobs in the Stockholm
Gotland Region
2013 May-Dec 2014 Jan-April
Assignments tot 28 122
Swedbank 14 15
Swedbank
customers
14 107
Internships tot 57 147
Swedbank 40 30
Swedbank
customers
17 117

4. National Customers - A part of Arbetsförmedlingens strategy
for working more actively with employer relations

5. National Customers is an innovative way of combining the
efforts of public and private sector in Sweden
• National Customers is a Swedish initiative that seeks to
combine the public measures to combat unemployment
with the commitment of the employers
• The goal is to work more innovatively to find the right
solutions that create employment possibilities for groups
that risk long time unemployment
• National Customers creates new opportunities for young
unemployed to gain experience and strengthen their
position on the labor market

6. Our vision and strategy
• Arbetsförmedlingen - a meeting place for opportunities
• To help the groups who have weak links on the labour
market, the youth
• Develop and adapt working methods in order to meet
employers´demand for labour by better utilising and
matchning the skills of our priority job-seekers not yet
established on the Swedish labour market, the youth etc
• Focus on places and lines of business where employers
have difficulty in recruiting, retaining qualified labour or need
to broaden their recruitment base

7. Some of the nationwide companies we have agreement
with in Sweden
83% of the nationwide companies are happy with our service!

8. • Tailor made agreement to offer a certain number of jobs or on-the-
job training positions
• Assistance with recruitment
• Subsidies and other employment support
Swedish PES
Employers
Through the agreements with National Customers, more work opportunities are
made available for the young unemployed
Nationalcustomers
The overall strategy is to establish cooperation with
employers that agree to offer jobs or on-the-job training for
the youth and other disadvantaged groups
Wage subsidy
Professional Competency
Assesment
Internships
Suplemental vocational
training
Professional Swedish
language
Financial support to
commuting / moving

9. Regional
Marketing
managers
informed
Regional
matching
coordinators
allocate the
assignment to
local PES
office
If necessary
Local
agreement
between RMC/
local office and
employer
Matching and
delivery
through
collaboration
between RMC/
local office and
employer
Closed /
ongoing
assignments /
result
documentation
Recruitement process

10. Services for employers:
• Free advertising in Platsbanken
– The vacancy database on the arbetsformedlingen.se website, which has 1.5
million unique visitors every month
• Free access to search among about 140 000 jobseekers
– Using the “Search for CV” service at PES homepage
www.arbetsformedlingen.se
• Offering contact person
• Support in the recruitment process
– Recruitment meetings at the premises of PES
– Selection (Open or internal)
– Seach/match using the “Sök CV" (Search for CV) service at
arbetsformedlingen.se
– Conventional jobadds
• Help with alternative recruitment solutions
– Such as recruitment within the EU/EES and in Switzerland

11. More activities towards
employers
• Semiannual forecasts towards business
sectors and industries
• JOB hunting campaigns
• Business sector weeks

12. Targeting business sectors
In Stockholm we have allocated responsibility for different sectors towards Local
Employment Offices
• First to provide designated-/Key account officer…
• Responsible for the implementation of business sector week
This only apply towards employers. Jobseekers can register at any Local
Current Business sectors:
• Sales sector
• Health and social care
• Transportation and Logistics industri
• Economy and Financial Affairs
• Hotel and Restaurant industry
• IT and Communication sector
• Education and teaching sector
• Construction and energy sector
• Industry sector