This year the Forum will focus on creativity, jobs and local development. We will examine how localities can support culture and creative industries as a source of knowledge and job creation and how the creative industry can act as a powerful driving force areas such as tourism, urban regeneration, and social inclusion.

1. Skive Kommune
Boosting Job Creation 2015 - 2016
Line Kjeldsen

2. Attraction and retaining of
talent and jobs

3. Local policy level
• Business policy
• Tourism policy
• Settlement strategy
• Annual employment plan

4. Branding and marketing Skive
• As a place to live
– The ”RENT LIV” brand (”Pure Living”)
– ”Move to Skive” - viral campaign - target group: 25-35
years
• www.flyttilskive.dk
• www.movetoskive.dk
• As a place to do business
– www.investinskive.dk

5. Jobcentre – skills supply
• Business service team in jobcentre
• Strategy
– Assisting businesses with recruitment
– Helping unemployed and employees to get better skills
(through work experience, training and job rotation)
– Retainment (ill or disabled employees)

6. Hotline and chat - 07:00 – 22:00
www.jobcenterskive.dk

7. Attracting international talents
through international recruitment
• International Citizen Service – one stop shop for
registration with all authorities
• International recruitment specialist (to be) in
jobcentre
• Collaboration with EURES (Workindenmark)

8. Highly educated / specialists
• KIS-huset (”Career in Skive”)- temporary
residence hall for newcomers – financed by local
businesses
• Collaboration with Aalborg University (AAU)
– Traineeships in Skive for students
– Connecting businesses and researchers
• Collaboration with relevant trade unions

9. National and regional level
• Collaboration with other municipalities
– Business Region MidtVest - to attract talents and jobs to
the areas
– Jobcentre collaboration – to optimize recruitment
• Lobbying for government jobs to be relocated to
Skive
– (e.g. Home Guard regional head office)
• Supporting local educational institutions
– e.g. teachers’ college
• Working for more flexible planning legislation

10. Special projects and focus areas
• Energibyen (Energy City since 2008)
– A municipal team
– Develops projects that will lead to a more sustainable
municipality and industrial growth
• BIG Blue Skive 2040
– A vision for developing the city of Skive by the award-
winning architects ”Bjarke Ingels Group”

12. Integration of migrants

13. Migrant workers and families
• Welcome meetings for new citizens
– Welcome package with local products
• Collaboration with volunteers, local and sports
associations, etc.
– Local area ambassadors
• Collaboration with employers
• ”Ethnical Committee” – involving immigrants in
local democracy – focus on integration

14. Involving local businesses
in development

15. Involving local businesses in
development
• A close dialogue with the local Business and
Tourism Centre (Skiveegnens Erhvervs- og
Turistcenter)
• A Key Account Management scheme for some of
the most important local companies with
municipal directors as ”key account managers”
• Employers in advisory committee on employment

16. The most important labour
market challenge

17. The most important labour
market challenge
• Lack of skilled / highly educated workers
• Too many unskilled workers
• Too many people outside the labour market –
NEETs, mentally and socially vulnerable etc.

18. Thank you!
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