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. Welcome
Arbetsförmedlingen Stockholm City
April 25th 2014

2. Workshop:
Swedish Youth Guarantee
Ms. Eeva Vestlund
Employment Office Manager

3. Swedish “Youth guarantee” replaced
“Special community programmes for
young people” 2007
Due to:
• High rates of youth unemployment
• Strong demand on the labour market
Target group:
• Unemployed jobseekers registered at
Arbetsförmedlingen, aged 16-24 years
• Unemployed for three months
Goal:
• Work or back to school

4. Aim
• Counteract youth unemployment
• Reduce time in unemployment
By concrete and individually shaped
activities, support from the
Arbetsförmedlingen and continuous matching
towards the labour market

5. Activities within Youth Guarantee (National)
February 2014
9%
10%
10%
22%
10%
30%
5%
2% 2%
Work
Work experience
Training
Private providers
In-depth assessment
Jobseeker activities with coaching
No registered activity
Other
Employability Rehabilitation
38 400 participants (April 2014)

6. Leaving Youth guarantee
March 2014
2797
159
535
1142
3
1412
1296
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
Work Subsidized
employment
New start job Open
unemployed
Work
introduction
employment
Labour market
programme
Other

7. Youth jobseekers – day 1-90
Ms. Lisa Brandt, Employment officer

8. Youth aged between 16-24
Registration as a jobseeker
• Contact person/employment officer
• Action plan
• Next appointment with Arbetsförmedlingen

9. The first 90 days – Focus on matching
• Activities; CV-seminars and vocational
guidance
• Advise on how to contact employers
• Drop in every Friday
• ”Room 4 Work”

10. Ms. Karina Betancourt, Employment officer
Swedish Youth Guarantee

11. Concept
• A programme oriented to provide the youth
(under 25) several tools, in order to
facilitate their introduction into the labour
market.
• These tools are offered according to their
individual needs

12. Starting point
• Information Meeting (after 3 months)
• Individual profiling/action plan (current
opportunities, potential developments, etc.)
• Internships, promotion of
entrepreneurships, private providers, short
training courses based on labour market needs.
• Subsidized employment (New start
jobs, “Yrkesintroduktionsanställningar”
(apprenticeships) and internships)

13. Target Groups / Measures
Actual Situation Action Plan Target Group Time frame
Early school-leavers Motivational course Young school
leavers without
degree
3 months
Youth without work
experience
Internships
External
Collaborators
Finished school, no
vocational
orientation or work
experience
3 months
6 months
Long term
unemployed
Subsidized
employment
Youth in
unemployment for
more than 6 months
6 months – 1 year
Finished school, no
work experience
Apprenticeship
“Yrkesintroduktions-
anställning”
15-24 years old 6 months – 1 year

14. Mr. Kamyar Zarrin, Employment officer
“Room4work”

15. Career & Employment events
”Room4Work”
• By-weekly events where young people and
potential employers meet at our facilities
generating job opportunities, internships.
• More than 10 employers from different
branches have participated since December
2013.

16. Mr. Henrik Tunér
Universum Group

17. Mr. Alexander Grace
Mr. Felix Olse
From a jobseeker’s point of view

18. Mr. Thomas Wengholm
Mr. Christer Gerdes
Analysts from Arbetsförmedlingen Head office
National context and comparison

19. Customer Service Media sales representatives
Sales support
Restaurant clerks
Retail sales assistants
Companies recruiting in today’s
”Room4Work”