The 2016 Education and Skills Network meeting is jointly organised by the Department of Labour and Employment, Philippines, ADB, OECD and GIZ and the latter’s regional programme RECOTVET (“Regional Cooperation Programme to Improve the Training of TVET Personnel”), which aims at supporting and creating personnel, institutional and thematic preconditions for quality improvement and regional harmonisation of the education and training of training personnel in South East Asia over the next years.

1. “The role of the private sector in skills development and
employment”
8th annual expert meeting of the initiative on Employment and Skills Strategies in
Southeast Asia (ESSSA) and 4th Regional Policy Dialogue on TVET
11-12 October, 2016 Cebu, Philippines
OECD Southeast Asia Regional Policy Network on Education
and Skills and GIZ Regional Cooperation Programme to
Improve the Training of TVET Personnel (RECOTVET)
Group 1: Effective job matching strategies and how best for employment
services to engage with employers in Cambodia
Mr. Somean KUOCH
National Employment Agency

2. Contents
 Roles of National Employment Agency (NEA)
 Function of NEA
 Employment forum
 Services for employers
 Achievement
 Way forward

3. Roles of National Employment Agency (NEA)
Mandated to provide employment services and labor
market information to job seekers, employers,
employee, education/training providers, and the public
(Sub-degree No. 67, 2009)
Mandated as the “Designated Statistical Unit” (Sub-
degree No. 117, 2010) playing central role in:
Establishing and developing LMIS
Compiling, synthesizing, collecting and analyzing data and
information to be publicly disseminated as a easily accessible
one-stop source of LMI

4. Functions of NEA
Jobseekers
Vocational &
Education programs
Labour market
Information flow
Occupational
profile
Career and
vocational
counseling and
guidance
Job placement
and employment
counseling

5. For employment counseling and job placement:
Assist jobseekers in acquiring job search skills and soft skills
Invite jobseekers for a job interview
Referral and placement to local jobs
NEA job shop (www.nea.gov.kh) and job search application
(android) providing free registration, job matching, and the last
updated list of available vacancies.

6. For career and vocational counseling:
Assist students to select appropriate occupations (self-assessment
based on interests, personality, value & skills; and planning future
career using LMI)
Identify skill gap & determine the most appropriate means of
closing this gap

7. Employment forum
Employment forums (mobile career
fairs, recruitment events, and national
career fairs): provide the fast track
meeting of jobseekers and employers
to meet each other in activities
featuring registration, interview, and
placement in one venue at a specific
date to reduce job searching cost,
and time.

8. Vacancy
announcement Access to
jobseeker
databank
Vacancy
matching and
jobseeker
referral
Selection and
recruitment
Office space for
interviewing and
selecting jobseekers
Coordinating on-
site recruitment
Advice on
recruitment
Recruitment
events, job fair,
etc.
Labor market
information
(Analysis and
Forecast)
Services for employers

9. Achievements
Activities 2013 2014 2015
Jobseeker registration 6,442 25,501 9,519
Number of referrals 2,883 7,402 6,129
Number of placement 688 2,925 1,394
Pre employment training 1,789 3,374 3,678
Employment forum
Number of events 7 44 55
Participants 25,728 35,328 28,934
Career counseling and guidance n.a n.a 203
Soft skill training n.a n.a 1,088

10. The way forward
 Focus on ToT (Training of Trainer) in the field of career counseling and guidance.
 Continuously improve the public employment operating system including web based and
mobile application in order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of job matching
 Expand our real-time database of advertised vacancies and jobseekers for faster
matching
 Expand job centers to other provinces: 2 job centers a year
 Develop more integrated labor market information system (lack of comprehensive data
collection and sources, no systematic model for future anticipation and forecast of
demand and supply, and lack of analytical capability)
 More effective communication of the results for better informing career decision,
education/training curriculum & policy design; and for improving career guidance tools
and service delivery.

11. Thankyou for attention!
www.nea.gov.kh
Email: info@nea.gov.kh
Facebook: www.facebook.com/neakhmer
Tel: 023 884 692/088 678 5678
Government gateway to: Job, Workforce, and Labour Market Information
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