Skills needed for young people's jobs: a visual presentation and discussion of the findings: volume 1

Author: Townsend, Christina

Corporate author:
Great Britain. Manpower Services Commission (MSC)
University of Sussex. Institute of Manpower Studies (IMS)

Abstract:

This project was commissioned by Manpower Services Commission and had two main tasks: (1) to identify, within a local labour market, the sort of job opportunities available to 16 year old school leavers; and (2) to collection information about the skills used in these jobs, and to analyse this information in terms of skills that run through a wide range of jobs, skills that characterise families of jobs, and skills that are specific to particular types of work.

Subjects: Youth; Labour market; Statistics; Research; Skills and knowledge; Employment

Keywords: Youth program; Data collecting; Occupational research; Entry into working life; Job requirements; Employment opportunity; Job skill

Geographic subjects: Europe; Great Britain

Published: Brighton, England: Institute of Manpower Studies, University of Sussex, 1981

Physical description: 122 p.

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Statement of responsibility: By Christina Townsend

Notes:
On title page: Part of the London into Work Development Project being carried out by this Institute for the MSC, DES and ILEA

Resource type: Report

Call Number:
TD/TNC 87.1782