Browsing by Author "Paatsalo, Mia"

Labor market training is facing new challenges after several social changes. In order to ensure the competitiveness and productivity, labor marketing training should respond faster to the targeted needs and enhance employment by skills development. This study seeks to determine the educational goals and targeted needs for labor market training, as well as to study what factors prevent and promote the employment of the unemployed, in the opinion of the trainers of labor market training. The research context is the Helsinki Association of Unemployed (HeTy) and the aim of the study is to provide a less studied and association oriented perspective in labor market training. The subjects of the study were adult trainers who are currently operating or operated during the year 2015 at HeTy. The research was conducted using qualitative methods and the data was collected by theme interviews at the turn of November and December in 2015. Content analysis was used when analyzing the data. Research shows that HeTy's educational goals are employment, communality and activation, from which employment was held the main goal. Based on the results, these educational objectives can be noted to serve excellently the needs of the unemployed. In contrast, a similar correlation does not exist between the needs of working life i.e. qualifications and educational objectives. The results show that due to structural barriers, and very scarce resources it is therefore very difficult to produce valuable expertise for working life with the training. In addition to the educational objectives and needs, the study examined the factors preventing and promoting employment. The results show that the obstacles to employment are divided into individual adhesive and structural barriers. Weak level of attitude and emotional factors, lack of knowledge, as well as the weakening of the welfare caused by long-term unemployment were listed as individual adherent barriers, or barriers, to which the unemployed person may influence. Instead, structural barriers were seen to be mainly related to structural unemployment, which individuals do not have influence on. Factors promoting employment were not divisible in half like the obstacles and rather connected only to the individual. A learning attitude, strong technological expertise and extensive networks were named as supporting factors in this study.