The new vision of the Department of Employment is 'to convert the Employment Exchanges into Centres of Excellence for empowerment of youth'. 

Number of Engineering Candidates in the Live Register

The greatest advantage of the Department is its presence in every district, apart from the special employment exchanges like

	Professional and Executive Employment Office
	Special Offices for the Physically Handicapped
	Technical Personnel Offices
	Coaching-cum-Guidance Centres offices

Its coverage enables it to play a very pro-active role to achieve the redefined objectives of Private Sector placements, Vocational Guidance, Employment Market Information (EMI), creation of Study Circles to enhance the competitive skills of job-seekers, special service to the weaker sections of Society and promotion of Self Employment. In one word, act as a one stop shop for all Employment related needs of job seekers, and students. The new vision is to convert the Employment Exchanges in to centres of excellence for empowerment of youth.

The National Employment Service is the only agency that collects, compiles and reports on a Time Series information on Employment and Unemployment under Employment Market Information

The Re-Engineered Employment Exchanges

The redefined objectives are 

	To get closer to its users by widening its coverage
	To develop a basis for action by a proactive approach
	To redefine its role from that of a provider to that of a facilitator
	To network with other agencies to provide a spectrum of services to the students and job seekers
	To retrain and motivate its employees to transform itself to a sensitive and responsive public organisation

New Initiatives 

Wooing the private sector for placement of the registrants 

The Employment Exchanges have now targeted the private sector for increasing the number of placements effected by them. The share of the private sector in placement has multiplied five fold in the last one year . This figure is expected to increase impressively this year with private sector placement camps slated to be organized in all districts regularly. The objective is to emulate the success of District Employment Offices, Salem, Dharmapuri, Nagercoil and Tiruchirappally where one day of the month is designated as Private Employers Day and both employers and job seekers meet and jobs are  offered and taken up on the spot.

Offering a spectrum of Vocational Guidance Services under one roof 

Vocational Guidance is the process of assisting an individual to choose an occupation, prepare for it, enter upon and progress in it. The Department has embarked on an ambitious program to identify talent in their early years, create talent banks of high achieving students, nurture them, organize financial support and help them to realize their full potential so that these 'flowers do not blush unseen and waste their sweetness on the desert air'. A pilot project has been launched in the District Employment Office, Tiruchirappally to offer a plethora of useful services to the students, job seekers and parents. These include collection, compilation and dissemination of information on courses and careers, organization of short term training programs to augment competitive skills, establishment of entrepreneurs clubs for providing a support service to PMRY beneficiaries, networking with NGO's and other Government Departments and the Public to offer a spectrum of quality services under one roof. 

Study Circles

 It is an innovative concept to raise the performance of rural students in the competitive examinations conducted by both public and private recruiting bodies. These study circles have posted an enviable record in a short span.Study circle members in employment exchanges all over the state have come out successful in various competitive examinations conducted by the UPSC, TNPSC, Railway Service Commission, the Staff Selection Commission, the Banks and the Public and Private Companies. 

Computerization of Employment Exchanges 

In order to provide a transparent, efficient, quick and complaint free service, all  the thirty three employment exchanges have been provided with computer systems. Computerized counter services are now offered for registration and issue of identity cards to job seekers. 

Online Interactive Web Site cum Portal

In order to encourage private placement, an on-line interactive web-site-cum-portal is set up to develop a data bank of highly qualified, marketable candidates from the Live Register of the Employment Exchanges in Tamil Nadu to allow private sector employers and others for easy access. 

The objectives of this web site are as follows:- 

	To develop a Data Bank of highly qualified, marketable candidates from the Live Register of the Employment Exchanges in Tamil Nadu with the accent on persons with professional, executive and engineering diploma and degrees.
	To allow the private sector employers easy access to this database to fill up vacancies arising in their establishments and to offer facilities for screening and short-listing of prospective employees.
	To provide online information on application dead lines, hot track careers and future trends in employment.
	To set up a Virtual Study Circle for students taking up competitive examinations from +2 level to Junior Research Fellowship examinations.
	To publish on the net information on the seniority of registration upto which candidates have been sponsored against vacancies in the Employment Exchanges.