5 | Promoting Human Resources Development Empowering Manpower Responsible for Development of Economy |
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III. | Cultivating and strengthening the pool of skilled human resources that supports industrial progress |
In order for Japan to maintain its economic progress in an environment where companies are increasingly shifting the production operations overseas especially in the manufacturing industry, companies must perform high value-added work and develop business in new areas. This requirement has produced an urgent need to cultivate human resources that can handle these tasks. Efforts to cultivate and strengthen skilled employees capable of supporting industrial progress are being made. These efforts include programs to use high-level skills, and measures to improve skills, centered on those regions that need training most, in addition to public vocational training.
An objective evaluation and social recognition of the skills and knowledge necessary for a profession play an important role in improving the skills of workers, as well as their social status. Skill tests that endow workers with the title of a Certified Skilled Worker are managed by the national government, an authorization program of trade skill tests offered by the private sector, and in-house trade skill tests are used to promote private trade skill testing. |