YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

146 Figure 3.19: Skills-job matching of those who have completed formal education (%) and are not in education or training. Is the work you do for payment relevant to your field of education or training (e.g. a shop technician working as a shop assistant)? Finished 4-year secondary school. Unfinished college, academy. Finished 2-, 2,5- or 3-year lower vocational school. Finished college, university (3- or 4-year). Finished primary school. Finised 2-year higher vocational school. Unfinished vocational or secondary school. Finished MA, PhD. 20% 40% 60% 80% 52.1 56.3 59.0 62.0 66.7 72.2 75.0 78.9 100% 0% Source: Mladina 2020. The gap between the competences acquired by young people and the demands of the workplace is narrower than in 2013. Moreover, this gap becomes less distinct when analysing only those who are no longer in formal education. In this group, the mismatch between competences and job requirements decreases markedly with higher levels of educational attainment. Furthermore, the results show that the jobs young people undertake of- ten require a lower level of formal education. More than a third (35%) of respondents said that their job required a lower level of formal education (only 9% said their job required a higher level of formal education). This can be attributed to the fact that many young people (students) are do- ing occasional work (student work), which means work that often does not require a high level of education. The greatest mismatch between the