Training on Labour Market Information Jeju, Republic of Korea 11 to 15 July Programme & Practicalities
Introduction Labour Market Information is critical for designing, planning, implementing and evaluation of the Public Employment Service. Labor market information also provides important data for career decision making for individual clients. World Association of Public Employment Services and Korea Employment Information Service host a training course to build technical and organizational capacity to collect, analyze, manage and utilize labor market information. This labour market information course will provide various issues such as collection of labor market data, analysis, labor market forecasting, occupational information and dissemination of LMI. Dates and Venues Dates 11. 07. 2016 to 15. 07. 2016 Venue Meeting Room, KAL Hotel Jeju Programme Working Language: English Monday, 11 July Opening Ceremony Welcome speech Dr. Kilsang Yoo, Vice President of WAPES and President of KEIS 09:30 Course introduction Dr. Sang Hyon Lee, KEIS 10:30 10:50 Key Note Speech Global Labour Market Change and PES by Miguel Peromingo, WAPES Consultant 11:00 12:00 Country report Best practices from different countries Page 2 of 8
12:00 Lunch Break 16:00 Country report Best practices from different countries Labour market information and Public Employment Services by Dr. Soobong Uh, Korea University of Technical Education 16:30 The role of government in the development of labour market information Labour market information and PES Challenges and trends of recent labour market and role of PES 19:00 Welcome Dinner Tuesday, 12 July 12:00 Introduction of labour market demand and supply and labour market information by Dr. Soobong Uh, Korea University of Technical Education What is labour market? Demand and supply of labour market Labour market information and PES services Mismatching Job matching theory 12:00 Lunch Break Page 3 of 8
Labour market information analysis and policy development 16:00 Population & Workforce Unemployment, employment, and unemployment rate Wages and income labour market equilibrium Growth rate and employment rate Policy development Labour market survey programs and PES by Dr. Chonggak Shin, KEIS 16:30 Labour Force Survey Labour Demand Survey Economically Active Population Survey Local Area Labour Force Survey Youth Panel Study Graduates Occupational Mobility Survey Korea Longitudinal Survey on Aging Wednesday, 13 July 12:00 Real Time labour market information for PES by Dr. Sang Hyon Lee KEIS Real Time Data for labour market information Using labour market data for public employment services 12:00 Lunch Break 15:00 Labour market demand and supply forecasting and PES by Dr. Sigyun Lee, KEIS Data for employment forecasting Forecasting model 15:30 Collection of Occupational Information and Job Analysis by Mr. Joongjin Kim KEIS Page 4 of 8
Occupational classification O*Net & KNOW Job analysis 17:00 End of Day 3 Thursday, 14 July Practical design of labour market survey programs for PES by Dr. Kisung Choi, KEIS Need analysis Planning and designing(sampling, Questionaire) Data collection Data cleaning Data analysis Understanding Statistical Analysis Packages (SAS, SPSS, STATA, etc.) 12:00 Lunch Break Group Works : Case Study of design of labour market survey programs with labour market and PES issues 16:00 Moderated by Dr. Sang Hyon Lee, Dr. Kisung Choi Need analysis Planning and designing Data collection Data cleaning Data analysis 16:30 Presentation of Groups Works Page 5 of 8
Friday 15 July 12:00 Field Tour Practical survey on local industries and labour market information Jeju Regional Statistical Office 12:00 Lunch Break 15:00 Field Tour Labour market demand and PES programs Jeju Job Center 15:00 Guided Cultural Tour 19:00 Evaluation and way forward Graduation Ceremony 19:00 Farewell Dinner Practicalities Please read carefully the information below as participants have to arrange their own accommodation and flights taking into account that they need to take a domestic or international flight to Jeju Airport. Accommodation Participants arrange their own accommodation with: KAL Hotel Jeju 151 Jungangno, Jeju City, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, Korea TEL (82)64-724-2001 FAX (82)64-752-4187 www.kalhotel.co.kr Page 6 of 8
Please fill in the KAL hotel Jeju reservation form and send to Fax : +82-2-778-0021 or E- mail : ssm@kalhotel.net The special rates are as follows: Standard Room: From Sunday till Thursday at 100,000 KRW ~ 75,53 (room only) per night. Friday and Saturday at 135 KRW ~ 101,96 (room only) per night. Breakfast is optional at 18,000 KRW ~ 13,59 / person / day How to get to Jeju Island from Seoul The Incheon International Airport offers some domestic routes from Incheon to Jeju and vice-versa. When you arrive at Incheon, all signs are in English and you will find English speaking staff at Information desks. Here the link of the official web site of korea in English. You will find information about domestic flights: http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/tr/tr_en_5_1_1_2.jsp To get to Jeju Island, the quickest/easiest way is to take an internal flight from Gimpo Airport (about half an hour from Incheon Airport via AREX train, coach or taxi). Train is the cheapest option, taxi is the most expensive. Airlines that fly to Jeju include Eastar, Korean Air, Asiana, Air Busan and Jeju Air. Korean Air has the most nonstop flights between Seoul, South Korea and Jeju Seoul, South Korea is 270 miles / 434 km from Jeju. There are 76 daily flights from Seoul, South Korea to Jeju. The average flying time for a direct flight from Seoul, South Korea to Jeju is 1 hour 5 minutes. How to get to the hotel from Jeju Island Airport Take a taxi for 12 minutes, around 5 USD Participation costs The participation to the event is free for WAPES members. The participants will bear the costs for travelling to the event, hotel nights (see under Accommodation) and for meals which are not included in the programme as well as their additional personal expenditures and costs for room service and other hotel services. Page 7 of 8
Information about hosting PES- KEIS You will find basic information on their various website: http://eng.keis.or.kr/eng/index.do About Jeju Island To learn more, please check http://www.ijto.or.kr/english/ It is also available in other languages The currency is the South Korean Won (KRW). 1 EUR is approximatively 1324,63 KRW. All credit cards are accepted. In July the average temperature is around 25-28 degrees Celsius. Visa Please note that any participant is responsible for obtaining if applicable a visa for entering the country. Please also get into contact with your Ministry of Foreign Affairs if necessary. If you need a letter of invitation to obtain a visa, please notify this by email to WAPES Executive Secretariat. Please also give detailed information about flight references and correct date of arrival and departure. Contacts Seong Hee Yun Researcher External Affairs Team Korea Employment Information Service E-mail : shyun@keis.or.kr Tel : +82 43 870 8742 Miguel Peromingo Consultant for Asia-Pacific Region World Association of Public Employment Services Email : miguel.peromingo@wapes.org Tel + 32 22 35 72 53 Page 8 of 8