Full employment is an economic situation in which all available labour force are being used in the most efficient way possible. Full employment embodies the highest amount of skilled and unskilled workers that can be employed within an economy at any given time.
True full employment is an ideal—and probably unachievable—situation in which anyone who is willing and able to work can find a job, and unemployment is zero. It is a theoretical goal for economic policymakers to aim for rather than an actually observed state of the economy. In practical terms, economists can define various levels of full employment that are associated with low but non-zero rates of unemployment.