these are steps in the right direction but do not per se imply that older workers are more readily hired and the offices of hello work and jeed see below should strengthen their special programmes targeting older jobseekers such as training offers secondcareer counselling and training seminars for firms in age management hello work offices administer recruitment incentives job development grants and other incentives for employers hiring hardtoplace jobseekers trial jobs for youth and other target groups and startup incentives by contrast vocational training for the unemployed rehabilitation and employment programmes for people with disabilities and childcare programmes are administered primarily through grants to other public organisations particularly the employment and human resources development organization of japan ehdo and the japan organization for the employment of the elderly and persons with disabilities jeed