!!!Berufsberatung und Arbeitsvermittlung

Vocational Guidance and Placement are the main tasks of the Austrian  
Labour Market Service (AMS), which took over the tasks of the state 
employment service in 1994. Its responsibilities are regulated by the 
Arbeitsmarktfoerderungsgesetz (AMFG; Labour Market Law) of 1968 and 
1994.

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Vocational and career guidance are defined as the help given to 
persons in choosing their occupation and planning their careers by 
providing information and individual guidance while taking into 
account their abilities and possible employability on the job market. 
The vocational guidance offered by the AMS must be made available to 
everybody who desires it. The AMS has to inform customers on job 
profiles, training possibilities, possible earnings, and on career 
prospects taking into account long-term economic development.

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Job placement is regarded as an activity designed to establish 
contacts with a view to setting up a working relationship between 
people looking for jobs and prospective employers.

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At present (2000), job placement services are virtually a monopoly of 
the AMS. For a long time, job placement through private companies was 
almost entirely impossible, with the exception of important charitable 
institutions, statutory interest groups and trade associations who 
have the power to enter upon collective agreements.

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The legal basis for job placement through businessmen/women or 
enterprises was first created in 1991. At the same time, new trade law 
regulations were issued which regulated the profession of placement 
officers and established the need for a licence. So far, however, 
these provisions have only been applied to the placement of top 
managers.


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