BU474 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blue-Collar Worker, Relate, Focus Group
Document Summary
Germany apprenticeship program unemployed people are required to go back to school for education. Incentives for employers where do the incentives come from? (e. g. germany) Encourage the unemployed people to choose apprenticeship grant to help for tuition. Skill shortage: gear for people towards skill trades mindset: people tend to get white collar jobs after graduation. Partnership between schools and companies; education institutions" efforts extra year to try out courses in high schools: mindset. : skill trades are not cool, acceptance and attractiveness of the skilled trade jobs. Issue workplace is not strong enough: costing the government money for the skilled trade workers - billion. If enforce the apprenticeship program in canada, it could enhance the stigma of skilled trade. Only unemployed people will go back to skilled trade school, which even lowers the credibility of the skilled trade: not many full time blue collar jobs no benefits are provided, employer reluctance. Skills, techniques that are required for the job.
