Labour market information analysis and design of a job information system for private employment agencies in Tanzania

Among very nagging problems facing the world today is unemployment General unemployment rates range between 8% for developed countries and 20% for the underdeveloped Tanzania’s unemployment rate was 18% by 1995. Always lack or falling investment drive has been the explanation for unemployment. This research sought to establish whether employment information gap between employers and jobseekers is or is not another important factor. General findings of this research confirmed that employment information gap is a very significant element for unemployment and job misallocation. In Tanzania this gap is widened by absence of information infrastructure, normally made of public and private employment exchanges. The role of these two institutions is to stabilise the labour market through competitive market practices. Moreover, an efficient labour information system for the twenty first century is necessarily a computerised system. Computerising now would save Tanzania a lot of wasted human resources. This research has two major parts. Part one discusses the problem of unemployment in Tanzania as created by the information gap as compared with other countries and as contrasted with lack of investment drive. It also mentions the role of both public employment services (PES) and private employment agencies (PREA) in job creation part two of the research discusses the importance and approach of computerising Tanzania’s labour information system for the benefits of employers, jobseekers and the agencies themselves, in a competitive economy it is the hope of this researcher that more research in labour information systems in Tanzania will be carried out to improve this one and to observe other areas for the benefit of an infant free enterprise economy in Tanzania.