STIC - Automotive Services: A. Introduction to Workshop - Labour Market

Understand the Term "Labour Market"

a) Divide the participants into four or five groups. You might, for example, arrange the room so that there are four or five chairs at each table.

Put a sheet of flipchart paper and a chart marker on each table.

b) Ask groups to discuss the following questions (see Overhead 3):

c) Ask the groups to record their responses on sheets of flip chart. A member of each group posts the responses and reports on the discussion.

Responses might include the following:

What is the labour market?
- the arena where those who are in need of labour and those who can supply the labour come together
- a place where current job/labour market trends can be ascertained according to the basic economic principles of supply and demand
Where is it located?
- in every community
- no definite/particular location
- human resource departments, employment agencies, networking, newspapers, Internet
What goes on there?
- information is sought and exchanged, announcements made, data collected, statistics published
- exchange of services for money
- recruiting/application process, interviewing/testing/assessing, offering and accepting of jobs
- negotiating, bargaining, agreement; buying and selling of services
Who goes there?
- potential employees with skills/knowledge/experience to sell; potential employers in need of a product or service
Why do people go to the labour market?
- potential employees need to assess own employability skills/qualifications, analyze and evaluate employment possibilities, network and promote selves; potential employers need to publicize their requirements
- to find a match as per individual requirements

d) Debrief:

What similarities/differences have they noticed between the labour market in their countries of origin and in Canada?

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