We must rethink of training systems for the employment based on the demand. It is urgent. The key is to generate flexible systems which allow adapting contents to the need of the local labour market. Public employment agencies together with private ones to achieve more efficiency.

By Martin Padulla*

It is difficult to think of fair and inclusive societies without investing in human capital. This statement seems obvious, however, in our countries there is no investment at all, it is low or useless depending which country we focus.

What do we mean by training system for employment? It is a system through which employed and unemployed workers can increase their employability and the companies can increase their competitiveness. The final result is a more solid and dynamic economy, which fairer and more inclusive.

What do training for employment models have to work properly? They are models of private public articulation, clear, well managed, made up of social actors with a great knowledge in the subject, profitable for private actors, with a great capacity of reaction, adaptation and innovation so as to reach the highest number of people with the best cost-benefit ratio. To fulfill this last goal, it is necessary to avoid regulatory fragmentation and to try to unify, in different municipalities, provinces or states, the macro aspects together with the micro particularities. Those aspects involve the generation of training instances directly associated with employment and the positions to cover which must be within a policy with clear and defined national objectives. A serious model which aims to consolidation must generate credits. The credit of basic competences should be the key to have access to a permanent training system. Unemployed people and informal workers should have priority. Public employment agencies must work together with Private employment agencies to achieve more efficiency. So as to guarantee transparency, audit systems should be generated and carried out by prestigious institutions which control the correct administration, the fulfillment of the training objectives and the real flow of apprentices. The process, through which, these institutions manage to audit the system, should also be transparent, public and of easy access for all the citizens.

The training for employment model I am talking about, must be nourished by the best practices of the international environment so as to become an open, dynamic, useful system with the objective to reach a fair Latin America with less inequality.

A model with these characteristics would be the appropriate complement for the formal system of education. A complement which would allow to neutralize the gap between the contents generated by schools and those which demandas the labour market. A functional model for the growth of employability in our more vulnerable sectors.

About Martin Padulla

Managing Director of Staffingamericalatina. Martin Padulla is Sociologist (USAL), MBA (UCA) and labour markets expert. He published “Flexible Work in South America” and “Regulatory framework for employment agencies in Latin America” two books about the new realities of work in Latin America.

mpadulla@staffingamericalatina.com

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