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For OECD member countries, high-level workplace skills are considered a key means of supporting economic growth. Systems of vocational education and training (VET) are now under intensive scrutiny to determine if they can deliver the skills required. 'Learning for jobs' is an OECD study of VET designed to help countries make their VET systems more responsive to labour market needs. It will expand the evidence base, identify a set of policy options and develop tools to appraise VET policy initiatives. Since 1989, Hungary has made significant efforts to restructure its VET system and it now has many strengths, including a strong national qualifications framework. But there are significant challenges, including weak links between VET and the labour market, early tracking and multiple selection mechanisms in the school system, and the low status of VET. Among the review's recommendations are: (1) standardise the transition to all types of secondary school after the ninth grade rather than the eighth grade, which is currently the most common option, and in vocational training schools, start practical training in the 10th grade; (2) collect and publish information on labour market outcomes on a school and programme basis; (3) improve career guidance offered to elementary school and VET students; (4) include a substantial amount of workplace training in all VET programmes; and (5) provide better information on the training levy. OECD is conducting country VET policy reviews in Australia, Austria, Belgium (Flanders), the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (England and Wales), and the United States (South Carolina and Texas).