Public Employment Service Centers (PES)

• Facilitating Job Seekers to find out a suitable job based on their qualifications, experiences, skills, attitudes and personal preferences.
• Facilitating Job Providers to select suitable employees based on their requirement.

 Objectives of the Public Employment Service

• Job coordination.
• To function as the Information Unit of the Labour Market.
• Administering Active Labor Market Programs.
• Administering an effective training referral service.
• Partnership building with all stakeholders who are involved in the employment services.

Functions Performed by the Public Employment Service Centers

• Registering of job seekers.
• Registering of vacancies in public/private/semi government sectors.
• Registering Training Institutes in public/private/semi government sectors.
• Job Matching.
• Referral for vacancies / Training opportunities.
• Facilitating Employ-ability Enhancement Programs.
• Career guidance services.
• Establishing partnership with all stakeholders.
• Generating of Labor Market Information.
• Coordinating and administering district level PES centers.

Labour Market Information Division Unit

Labour Demand Analysis  - 2016

The Labour Market Information is intended to help individuals, Employees and Employers to make decisions about careers, Education Employment, business plans and investments and also to determine which occupations suit their skills and interests, where the jobs are, and which occupations have the best prospects. It also helps peoples locate the most appropriate training and educational resources.

Objectives

• To identify the available jobs in Sri Lankan job market.
• To identify the required qualifications and skills required by employers for the jobs.
• To identify the main sectors of generating jobs in Sri Lanka.

The Study on Informal Sector Employability in Galle, Kandy and Rathnapura  Districts 2016

For the Sri lankan labour market Informal Sector represents an important part. According to the Annual Labour Force Survey - 2014 of the department of Census and Statistics, the contribution of informal sector in total employment accounted as 59.5% in the year 2014. This sector can be identified as unorganized sector, or non- institutionalized sector in the economy. Therefore it is a sector not covered by the existing conventional source of statistics.

Key aspects of identifying informal sector

• Number of employers are less than ten.
• No registration of the organization under Inland revenue department.
• Not functioning proper book keeping method.
• Not registered for EPF/ETF.

The objective of this survey is to identify employment structure of the informal sector, and its special characteristics in the districts of Kandy, Galle and Rathnapura in the year 2016.  

The survey is planned to collect data using convenience sampling method, and the data will be collected by the Human Resource Development officers working in the divisional secretariat offices through out the country.

Target beneficiaries / Stakeholders

• Decision makers of employment policy level.
• Other stakeholders in employment and education sector (small and medium employers, Vocational trainers).
• Career guidance officers and career counselors.
• Informal sector employers and employees. 

Relationship of project to national priorities

• Information of structure of the informal sector jobs.
• Information on gender involvement in informal sector.
• Providing recommendations to improve the quality of informal sector towards.
• Economic development of the country.

Job Creation and Promotion Unit

• Job Clubs program.
• Motivation Program for Freelance employment opportunities.
• Entrepreneurship Development Training Program.
• Need based Training Program.
• Rural Employment Projects and Micro Finance Credit Program.
• Hundred Employments Program.

Career Guidance Unit

• Winning Career Challenges Program.
• Awareness Program for Teachers.
• Motivation for Freelance Jobs Program.
• Career Guidance Program for internal under graduates.
• Career Guidance Program for external undergraduates.
• Career Guidance Program for G.C.E. Advanced Level Students.
• Career Guidance Program for G.C.E. Advanced Level Students Ordinary Level Students.
• Publication of “Hasara” Career Guidance Journals.
• Provision of Career Guidance Service.
• Awareness Program for Parents.
• Career Path Program.