ABSTRACT
Unemployment in the present day
Nigeria resulted from different misgivings and lack of direct approach to by
those concerned to tackle this problem. There are very few jobs compared to the
large number of citizens up to the age of being in the labor force. In recent
years, subsequent governments and corporate bodies have one way or the other
tried to device a means of reducing the instances of unemployment, some being
successful to some extent, and other cases having efforts and huge finances
being wasted due to lack of proper management, supervision and low productive
system of operation. This research project is dedicated to providing a new
system that would solve the problem of linking a large number of unemployed
individuals to firms, companies, institutions or government agencies that are
in need of employing people for one reason or the other. This project has an
its case study. The National Directorate of Employment (Owerri Secretariat). It
is an agency formed by the Federal Government with the sole purpose of
employing as many unemployed individuals into the labor force. This research work,
right from its inception is dedicated to greatly solving the problem of errors
prone to the manual method of collecting, managing and storing of data as well
as distributing processed information. It introduces an electronic means known
as Automation, a process that entails the use of the computer and its
accessories to manage data and information at a more efficient and effective
rate. This would be achieved by introducing an Automated Employment Directory
for Labor Assignment System, hence the project topic: “An Automated Employment
Directory and Labor Assignment System”.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Employment directory is a database of
individuals which provides a list, usually in alphabetical order, of people’s
names, contact address, telephone member and other personal information
pertaining to a particular group of individuals known as applicants. This
directory in its entirety also contains the curriculum vitae (C.V) of individuals
grouped under different sections such as job seekers, short listed candidates
for an interview or qualified persons designated an employment status, as the
case may be.
The directory on its own enables an
individual to conduct his/her search with little or no difficulty since the
data he/she needs has already been formatted in such way the individual can
access it with little or no skill at all. They usually stored under headings
and are stored alphabetically. Technology has evolved in recent times to a
level where competition between existing systems and a new design are accessed
and compared on the basis of reliability, compatibility, output design, speed
and efficiency, not to mention sophistication. Globally, people are mostly
interested in systems that can match any standard found in the international
market. This project, however is designed to assist employment agencies in
their bid to connect firms or organizations in need of some qualified
individuals to fill up vacancies in their establishments and also to help the
public to be well informed of such vacancies, hence the choice of the National
Directorate of Employment as the suitable case study for this research project.
This project is based on the gradual
process of completely transferring the manual procedure of both managing and
keeping track of information and data related to employment delivery. It is a
project totally dedicated to the use of computes otherwise known as automation,
to provide a faster, more reliable and accurate process of managing information
that is greatly essential in the provision of employment by agencies working
for the government or contracted by private bodies.
Computers these days are gradually
being introduced into every sector of our daily lives and its use in managing
database cannot be over emphasized computers have come a long way to replace
human limitations such as the ability to perform series of repetitive
activities without easily getting weary or entirely bored. It has saved human
energy and performs its activities/functions much faster than the average man.
The few mention advantages and merits
of automating (computerizing) certain activities over the usual manual way of
carrying out similar activities, necessitated in making the researcher to
propose and design a new system, which will entail the gradual change from the
existing system of manually managing data to an automated system of the same
procedure. This will culminate in the use of the computer to:
- Input
data
- Process
the data into information
- Store
the information and
- Access
the information at any given time and place whenever the need arises.
Although risks cannot be entirely
ruled out when using an automated system, they are however minimal and highly
reduced to the lowest level when qualified personnel are left to manage and
administer the system.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The primary function of the National
Directorate of Employment is to assist the government in providing jobs for the
unemployed populace and also to help the unemployed to get gainful employment
for their benefit. There are several problems hampering the link between
qualified personnel (or applicants) to some potential employers. Most of such
problems could be summarized into:
- Staff attitude: The nonchalant attitude of some of the staff
of certain employment agencies towards requests due to some difficulty
they encounter while collecting data. Also, some departments working under
the some establishment view themselves as independent entities, hence the
flow of information suffers serious setbacks and access to central data
becomes increasingly difficult.
- Processing: Poor data and information flow within the
organization due to job duplication and role redundancies and also errors
due to incorrect entries from the public.
- Time wastage: Time wastages could be due to lack of well
defined information retrieval system, insufficient number of employed
personnel and delay caused by postal services. This affects the overall
response time of the agency to requests.
OBJECTIVES OF
THE PROJECT
This research project, from its
inception, has some targeted goals and objectives which serve as the motivating
factor behind the system design. The new design is intended to be efficient in
the sense that the database software would produce the required results
satisfactorily without much time and valuable resources being wasted. The
project would in turn be a reliable substitute in the sense that the usual
process of manually storing, retrieving already collected data or information,
which are at most times error prone due to human factors such as commission,
are eliminated. In other words, the project is aimed at improving information
and data flow within the agency (directorate). Usually, the research project is
designed to eliminate problems/set backs which the commonly experienced due to
physical management and processing of documents (files) of respective requests
made to the agency. From the above mentioned points, its objectives could be
summarized into:
- Improving
data and information flow (management) within the system
- Providing
high quality information for the management to make relevant decision at
the needed time.
- Reduction
of unnecessary time wastages incurred during data processing, storage and
retrieval of information.
- Making
for a quicker response time.
- Linking
qualified personnel to vacancies and also providing organizations with
suitable applicants for vacant posts in their establishment.
- Reduction
of clerical operations amongst other benefits.
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AUTOMATED EMPLOYMENT DIRECTORY AND LABOUR ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM
Chapters: 1 - 5
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