The rise of brokerage in the hybrid labour marketRobert Arnkil and Eddy AdamsOECD LEED Forum, Stockholm

Friday, 25th April 2014

It used to be like this

You went to education.. Got your degree

..and work and a career was waiting for you

My Generation at Work

But now a huge gap has opened…

Education is often disconnected from working life…

Drop out and NEET has increased

Working life is changing rapidly and is precarious

Starting and finding work has become complicated often difficult

My Generation at Work

First education

Transitions, spaces and brokerage

Further education

Work

NEET

Un-employment

Family care

Return to work

Activa

tion Re-employm

ent

Re-training

Immigration Training

Sickness

PensionsChange of work

Working life has changed

Working life and careers are full of transitions and have become more and more ’hybrid’

Hybrid = Combined, multi-purpose, multi-task…

Hybrid work: Work requires combinations of skills: technical, human relations, self-management, digital, enterprising…

Hybrid careers: : altering between salaried and entrepreneurial phases, self-employment, co-ops…

These kinds of skills can develop everywhere

WORKING LIFEBecoming hybrid,

precarious and footloose

YOUNG PEOPLE AND WORK

Values, attitudes and skills towards work

changingWORK

CONTRACT and COMMITMENT

Traditional ’permanent’ psychological agreement is

crumbling

MEDIATION TO WORK

Traditional mediation under pressure to

embrace hybridisation

LABOUR MARKETS have become

TRANSITiONAL LABOUR MARKETS

Changing and precarious working lifecalling for

’hybrid’ multi-skilling

Citizen/customer agency

developing ’enterprising

skills and attitudes’

Transitional Labour Markets, TLMLife-time transitions

Brokerage, counselling and information by cities and their partners

to support and enrich transitions

’Spaces’ to develop

Confronting the challenges ahead

http://www.nesta.org.uk/project/innovation-jobs

Friends helping friends

Supercharged by social media

Careers Guidance

Needs a makeover

Systems shift

Emerging patterns…

• Trusted brokerage – peer x peer

• Curation of micro-inputs – just in time

• Power of the local refreshed with social media

• The value of shared spaces – real/virtual

WORKING LIFEArticulating their

hybrid needs, demands and

participating in transforming relations

and skills to work

YOUNG PEOPLEActive agency -

entreprising in building hybrid skills and

connections CONTRACT and COMMITMENTNew psychological contract based on

’nomad commitment’

MEDIATION TO WORK

Providing hybrid spaces and brokerage for connections and skills development

USING AND DEVELOPING

POSSIBILITIES OF TRANSITIONAL

LABOUR MARKETS

My Generation at Work- spaces and brokerage

Entrepreneur in School

’IZI-solutions’/

Governance: Youth Councils, Youth Jurys, Youth Mayors,Employment Partnerships and Guarantees

Enterprise Glasgow

Dynamic DuoEngage+

Advisory

Summer Cafe

DeBrokriem

On Career Track

Creative Teaching

Crowd-sourcing

Co-operatives during education

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Start-ups

Bad Idea

Co-operatives duringEducation

Young Experiment

Youngster Job cafe

Day in Company

Social Innovationcompetition

Thanks for listening!

Eddy Adamseddy@eaconsultants.com@Eddyca1

Robert ArnkilRobert.arnkil@armas.fiwww.arnkildialogues