LAHORE: The Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) Punjab has developed world’s sixth and Pakistan’s first online Skilled Labour Market Information System (SLMIS) which will be functional from January 2015.
At present, UK, Korea, Malaysia, Philippine and Sri Lanka are using labour market information systems. All these systems have been studied in development of SLMIS by Punjab TEVTA.
This was stated by TEVTA Chairperson Irfan Qaiser Sheikh while addressing the TEVTA officers here in a meeting at TEVTA Secretariat.
Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said that the SLMIS developed by TEVTA Punjab will provide key information on Punjab’s labor market including market trends, skill training opportunities in different trades & technologies, data of passing out students andjob seekers as well as vacancies for technical persons in the industry.
The facility of free registration is available for all the students of technical &vocational institutes, job seekers and employers on this web portal so that unemployed skilled youth may find suitable job opportunities. This web portal will also provide information on employment & unemployment rates in different sectors of industry besides other useful economic data.
