The Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) yesterday said it was planning a series of employment training classes geared toward helping recent graduates develop job skills and find full-time employment.
Although the unemployment rate has gradually decreased as the economy slowly recovers from the global economic downturn, the council estimates that about 170,000 people who have recently graduated from college are still looking for full-time work.
To help young job seekers, the council’s Bureau of Employment and Vocational Training recently began planning a series of employment training classes targeting those who have graduated from college in the past four years and who currently do not have a job.
The classes range from international logistics to conferencing and exhibitions, tourism and hospitality, mechanical and electrical engineering, environment and ecology, informational technology and many other industry and job skills that are in high demand.
After 500 to 1,200 hours at the training classes, the graduates will be tested and then matched to businesses with vacancies.
The bureau said that although similar job training programs were offered to job seekers in the past, this was the first time classes targeted a specific type of job seeker. The bureau said it hoped training in specific sets of in-demand skills would benefit job seekers and businesses.
More than 100 companies have agreed to participate in the program by offering newly trained and qualified college graduates full-time positions, the bureau said.
The bureau plans to launch a test-run of the program in Taoyuan in January.
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