many jobless people who wish to work or find training and education opportunities that may lead to employment do not know how or where to start guidance services are one of the most effective strategies to inform unemployed adults of their options and encourage them to pursue new opportunities many adults have not been able to take advantage of such a service since their school years since adult guidance is an undeveloped resource in many countries oecd the most vulnerable groups of adults need to be identified and offered targeted learning opportunities tailored to their needs this report has focused on providing learning opportunities to adults with a low level of education and skills they include specific population groups who experience particular challenges and barriers to learning such as unemployed young adults women who have been out of the labour market for a long period single mothers and immigrants without language skills