Trial and evaluation of practical vocational training for job seekers (The vocational training reproducing the productive process of the company)

Abstract

At Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Job Seekers, job trainings are provided for job seekers to attain basic skills for employment. This time, two more training courses have been added to instruct trainees in a hands-on training through industrial production process with course tasks assigned. One course is designed for firstly attaining basic skills, and then enhancing the skill level through the repetitive exercise on the tasks assigned. Another is also schemed primarily to attain the basic skill, and successively to enhance the ability to utilize the learned skills through the tasks assigned for developing new products. These vocational trainings were planned and piloted at nine Polytechnic Centers. Among them, the enhancing training of the ability to utilize the skills has resulted in an increase of more applicants. Moreover, the trainees for the training succeeded in obtaining the job offers more, so the rate of their employment increased. In addition, at Kanto Polytechnic Center, the trainees in the job hunting presented the products of their own creation with the course tasks toward the potential employers. As a result, those trainees succeeded considerably in their job search. In this study, the effectiveness of newly added two courses for job training is evaluated and the way of utilization is proposed in relation to the products of the assigned tasks within the course.

Keywords

• engineering education
• production system
• vocational training
• modular vocational training
• job seekers
• training task
• production process
• metal mold and die