Patterns of recruitment and induction in selected European countries: First results of a feasibility study

Abstract

In this contribution we present two projects1 that are carried out by the section European VET policies/International Benchmarking and monitoring of BIBB.The projects deal with an international comparison on the question of how companies recruit, with a focus on labour market entrants and what they (need to) do in order tomake sure, that labourmarket entrants fulfil the expectations that employers have in terms of skills and competences on the level of intermediate skilled work. One project was a feasibility study and the other project, that is just starting, is a full study following the feasibility study. The aim of the two projects was to investigate the linkage between establishments’ recruitment practices (the qualifications and competences on which companies base their search), induction and work organisation in various European countries and the quality assigned to such VET system by employers. The anderpinning assumption is that the organisation of the respective educational systems (vocational/non-vocational, dual/school based) exerts a significant influence on the quality of the VET system.