Cedefop launched with the conference about New Skills for New Jobs its forecast 2020.  

You can download a handy briefing note here. in different languages.

The total number of job openings is expected to be around 80 million by 2020, with the biggest increase in high-level managerial, professional and technical occupations. conclusions of the forecast, please see Briefing Note:

http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/publications/15217.aspx

Those with higher qualifications will clearly be in the best position to take advantage of these developments. But the European economy will continue to need a broad basis of skills at intermediate level, especially those acquired within vocational education and training.

Europe needs to make sure that its people are acquiring the right skills, that companies are using their employees’ capacity to the fullest, and that employees are encouraged to keep learning throughout their working lives.

conference on New Skills for New Jobs - Action Now: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=88&langId=en&eventsId=232&furtherEvents=yes

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