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Labour Market Information System & Career Guidance Services Development in Mongolia

PEM in cooperation with Applicatio (Hamburg) is providing technical advisory and consulting services to design an integrated Labour market information system (LMIS) and Career guidance system (CGS) in Mongolia. The Consortium is contracted by Millennium Challenge Account Mongolia (MCA) and cooperates closely with the Project Implementation Unit of the MCA Vocational Education and Training Program.

The design of the LMIS is based on an analysis of current and future needs of the Mongolian labour market. The sustainability of the system is supported by capacity building, which supplies those persons responsible for its management and maintenance with the necessary skills.

The CGS will provide the Mongolian population with information, guidance and counseling to choose an appropriate career from school to work. It will help in making the best choice of career from the range of opportunities in the Mongolian labour market. Training for career guidance experts creates a mayor part of the tasks and includes a Training of trainer session. 

Both the LMI and CG systems will be designed in a user-friendly manner using the best available IT solutions to deliver the service nationally.
 
LMIS:
The overall objective is to have a labour market, which trains an adaptable workforce to meet the needs of the economy, which educates its population so that they have employable skills, which encourages and facilitates business and entrepreneurship to create employment and ensures equal opportunity for all groups within society.

Achieving these goals requires information concerning the labour market, which is comprehensive, reliable, up-to-date and easily accessible to all those who require it to make decisions concerning the labour market. So, the function of the LMIS is to provide information to clients who require it. Clients of LMI cover the whole spectrum from those who require information for themselves to those who require it for the benefit of others in a professional or guidance capacity.

This means the project team creates a website/portal to provide one user-friendly online access point for all LMIS and to get information providers to agree to allow access to LMIS on their website or where necessary to provide the information on the Mongolian labour agency (LECO) website in the absence of a relevant stakeholder website. LECO has already piloted an online platform (www.labornet.mn) for a vacancies and job seekers. This will be an important part of the LMI provision representing one part of the whole LMI system.
 
CGS:
In Mongolia the study of the labour market in support of the technical and vocational education and training strongly proposes the necessity of an information and guidance system for school graduates, VET school students, internal migrants, and unemployed. In addition, the vocational choices seem to favour the tertiary sector strongly, leaving the vocational sector responsible for meeting the demand for high qualified workers, unsatisfied. In order to build a coherent career guidance system in Mongolia the project supports the partners in the following:

1. Define an overall logical structure of an overall career guidance services system which should – when completely in place - meet following requirements:
   • The low population density and the vastness of the country suggest a modularized system with a growing web based structure;
   • The set up of the system must allow to build it step by step having the existing parts functioning from the very beginning;
   • It has to allow a “one stop strategy”;
   • It has to be adaptable to all different levels: from a short and specific information search up to an individual intensive coaching;
   • The info data bases have to stay updated automatically;
   • Curriculum modules for each specific target group of clients;
   • Information modules supplying information necessary for the decision making process;
   • Qualified career guidance coaches in place and available;
   • Quality assurance system in place and functioning;
   • Regular revisions to adapt the system to the changing needs, techniques and possibilities.
2. The imminent demand for qualified skilled professionals in Mongolia - as expressed by all government officials and experts - suggests building those modules of a career guiding service system, which are useful to meet this demand. Mongolia is on the verge to start a large mining endeavour; there is a need for qualified labour in the sectors construction and infrastructure as well. But agriculture still is the largest vocational sector in Mongolia.
3. LECO, as the central organization for establishing a career guidance system, requires capacity building.
4. Training of career guidance coaches is essential.
5. A web based / on-line Career guidance system is established.
6. A network of all the relevant stakeholders has to be established.
7. Career guidance shall be established with priority in the general school system on the secondary educational level.
8. Cooperation strategies for private-public-partnership activities have to be set up by using comparable experience from other countries and sectors within Mongolia.