Learning for Life
Working conditions in industrialized nations have been undergoing profound change for some time now. These changes present Germany - both as a business location and as a welfare state - with the difficult task of combining economic growth with a high rate of employment, while simultaneously maintaining social cohesion. As a country with limited natural resources, Germany must foster and utilize each individual's employment potential. That this is not happening to a satisfactory degree in today's slow economy gives cause for concern. While young people are not well integrated into education and work environments, older people are dropping out of the workforce before their time. Reversing these trends must rank as society's top priority in the years ahead.
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School-Work Transitions in Focus
Having completed their schooling, hundreds of thousands of young people in Germany find themselves stalled in what is known as the "transition system," since not enough regular career-training slots can be found for them. The designation "transition system" is a misnomer in a dual sense: On the one hand, its patchwork of individual programs rarely leads to an actual transition from school to work and, on the other, it is anything but systematic. The Bertelsmann Stiftung remains dedicated to addressing this challenge. With its Initiative for Systematic School-to-Work Transitions, it is promoting reforms designed to reduce the profusion of transitional measures and working to increase opportunities for young people as they move into professional careers.
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Youth and Work
As we move into the information age of the 21st century, developing and maintaining employability has become more crucial than ever. Every individual must exercise greater initiative and assume more responsibility for career planning. What is more, fostering individual employability at an early age has become a major challenge for both business and society.
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Systematic School-to-Work Transitions
Having completed their schooling, hundreds of thousands of young people in Germany find themselves stalled in what is known as the “transition system,” since not enough regular career-training slots can be found for them. The designation “transition system” is a misnomer in a dual sense: On the one hand, its patchwork of individual programs rarely leads to an actual transition from school to work and, on the other, it is anything but systematic. The Bertelsmann Stiftung remains dedicated to addressing this challenge. With its Initiative for Systematic School-Work Transitions, it is promoting reforms designed to reduce the profusion of transitional measures and working to increase opportunities for young people as they move into professional careers.
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Germany’s workforce is growing older and getting smaller -- a trend that is not irreversible. At the same time, the fewer people active in tomorrow’s working world will face major challenges. To respond to them, we must ensure the potential that each person has to offer is identified in a more effective manner, while being promoted and utilized throughout each phase of life. Only if we take a holistic attitude toward learning and professional education will it be possible to increase the quality of society’s human capital as well as its output, thus promoting prosperity and personal satisfaction.
moreNetworks Promoting Employment
Employment issues are no longer solved by individual actors on the labor market; instead, employment networks allow all key actors to play a role. These include companies, chambers of commerce, politicians, trade unions, associations, institutes of higher education and government agencies - essentially anyone with a contribution to make to resolving the labor market’s current problems. By facilitating an interplay of all actors, networks bring new momentum to finding employment solutions.
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