Youth employment resources

  1. Inspiring students through the ILO’s new KAB Start Up and Go Modules

    15 April 2014

    The ILO in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education and the Provincial Education Office of East Java conducted an entrepreneurship pilot project at vocational schools and high schools for six months (June-December) in 2013. The project covered five districts: Lamongan, Blitar, Kediri, Bangkalan dan Banyuwangi.

  2. APYouthNet Talk Show #30 - Brent Wilton, No one is unskilled

    30 March 2014

    Brent Wilton, Secretary-General of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE), shares employers' activities to address the youth employment crisis. He asserts that no one is unskilled and that young people have a lot to offer.

  3. The ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries Calls on Governments, Employers and Unions to Focus on Eliminating Gender Discrimination and Harassment in the workplace

    07 March 2014

    The occasion of International Women’s Day provides an important opportunity to reflect on progress towards gender equality in the labour markets of Pacific Island Countries.

  4. ILO body adopts new minimum monthly wage for seafarers

    06 March 2014

    The mechanism is the only one in the ILO for setting the basic wage for any industry.

  5. APYouthNet Talk Show #28 - CEO Suk Moo Lee explains why 'farmping' is the future

    02 February 2014

    The South Korean entrepreneur tells APYouthNet why changes in farming offer young people business opportunities.

  6. APYouthNet Talk Show #27 - Evan Davis, Silicon roundabout

    04 January 2014

    Evan Davis, presenter of BBC's Radio 4 Today programme, 'The Bottom Line'; host of BBC Two business reality show 'Dragon's Den', and author of 'Made in Britain: How the Nation Earns its Living', shares his well-illustrated views on youth entrepreneurship and employment. Before 'Dragon's Den', did he dream of becoming an entrepreneur? Find out in this episode of the APYouthnet Talk Show!

  7. Good careers come from young people’s own interest and aptitude: ILO

    28 December 2013

    Skills mismatch on Viet Nam’s youth labour markets has become a persistent trend whereas over-education and over-skilling coexist with under-education and under-skilling. More than 400 young people and 100 parents from the rural suburbs of Hanoi participated in a city’s Youth Career Fair organized by the ILO on 28 December in seeking for appropriate career orientation.

  8. Address at the ILO/Ministry of Labour & Employment (MOLE)/ILO: Launch of Decent Work Country Programme (2013-17)

    17 December 2013

    By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO DWT for South Asia and Country Office for India at the ILO/MOLE Launch of Decent Work Country Programme (2013-17), New Delhi, India, 17 December 2013

  9. ILO: Youth employment is a major challenge for young people in the Pacific

    07 December 2013

    ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Mr Yoshiteru Uramoto highlighted that youth employment is a major challenge, faced by young people in the Pacific, when he addressed the 3rd Meeting of the Pacific Youth & Sports Ministers, in Noumea, New Caledonia on 7 December 2013.

  10. Sports and youth employment

    29 November 2013

    In the Pacific region, sport plays a very important role in life. Youth unemployment is also rampant. Linking sports to youth employment could bring about positive results as young peoples’ skills in sports can be useful at work.