Skive KommuneBoosting Job Creation 2015 - 2016
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Attraction and retaining of talent and jobs
Local policy level
• Business policy• Tourism policy• Settlement strategy
• Annual employment plan
Branding and marketing Skive
• As a place to live– The ”RENT LIV” brand (”Pure Living”)
– ”Move to Skive” - viral campaign - target group: 25-35 years• www.flyttilskive.dk • www.movetoskive.dk
• As a place to do business– www.investinskive.dk
Jobcentre – skills supply
• Business service team in jobcentre• Strategy
– Assisting businesses with recruitment– Helping unemployed and employees to get better skills
(through work experience, training and job rotation)– Retainment (ill or disabled employees)
Hotline and chat - 07:00 – 22:00 www.jobcenterskive.dk
Attracting international talents through international recruitment• International Citizen Service – one stop shop for
registration with all authorities• International recruitment specialist (to be) in
jobcentre• Collaboration with EURES (Workindenmark)
Highly educated / specialists
• KIS-huset (”Career in Skive”)- temporary residence hall for newcomers – financed by local businesses
• Collaboration with Aalborg University (AAU)– Traineeships in Skive for students– Connecting businesses and researchers
• Collaboration with relevant trade unions
National and regional level
• Collaboration with other municipalities– Business Region MidtVest - to attract talents and jobs to
the areas– Jobcentre collaboration – to optimize recruitment
• Lobbying for government jobs to be relocated to Skive– (e.g. Home Guard regional head office)
• Supporting local educational institutions – e.g. teachers’ college
• Working for more flexible planning legislation
Special projects and focus areas
• Energibyen (Energy City since 2008)– A municipal team– Develops projects that will lead to a more sustainable
municipality and industrial growth
• BIG Blue Skive 2040– A vision for developing the city of Skive by the award-
winning architects ”Bjarke Ingels Group”
Integration of migrants
Migrant workers and families
• Welcome meetings for new citizens – Welcome package with local products
• Collaboration with volunteers, local and sports associations, etc.– Local area ambassadors
• Collaboration with employers• ”Ethnical Committee” – involving immigrants in
local democracy – focus on integration
Involving local businesses in development
Involving local businesses in development• A close dialogue with the local Business and
Tourism Centre (Skiveegnens Erhvervs- og Turistcenter)
• A Key Account Management scheme for some of the most important local companies with municipal directors as ”key account managers”
• Employers in advisory committee on employment
The most important labour market challenge
The most important labour market challenge
• Lack of skilled / highly educated workers• Too many unskilled workers• Too many people outside the labour market –
NEETs, mentally and socially vulnerable etc.
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