Increasing Use of the Job-Placement Service - not only by the Unemployed
Increasing Use of the Job-Placement Service - not only by the Unemployed
More and more job-seekers, even those who are not unemployed, are using the job-placement service provided by the employment offices. Last year in West Germany, for example, the employment offices were able to place 778,000 "non-unemployed job-seekers" in permanent employment, an increase of 13% on 1991. A further 781,600 unemployed people were placed by the employment offices.
In total, almost 2.35 million people were found new employment by the West German employment offices in 1992, 817,000 of them in short-term employment relations. This is down by just 2% on 1991. The decline in economic activity led to a decline in both the number of registered vacancies (2.16 million) and the total number of new employment relations in West Germany of 7%. Thus in relative terms the year saw an increase in the role of the employment offices in job placement in West Germany.
In the new Länder the employment offices were able to place just under 662,000 people in new employment relations; 541,200 (82%) of them had previously been unemployed.
These figures do not include recruitment via the "Job Information Service" (SIS; cf. iMi 42). By the end of 1992 some 80 employment offices were equipped with SIS. As the service was designed as an "anonymous" placement procedure, its success rate cannot be observed in the usual ways. Experience has shown, however, that around 10% must be added to the number of employment-office placements to allow for the effects of the SIS.
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