Skills Anticipation and Matching

The E-Learning course on Skills Anticipation and Matching is part of the Skills Academy for Lebanon, comprising a series of training programmes that are the result of extensive consultation and coordination work with the Country office of the ILO in Lebanon. This course will help to understand Lebanese stake-holders the critical milestones, questions, objectives and components of labour market information (LMI), institutional roles and responsibilities. Participants will learn about quantitative and qualitative methods, tools for skill needs anticipation and matching supply and demand of skills on the labour market. OBJECTIVES The main objective of this course is to help participants understand the central importance of identifying current and future skill needs in Lebanon and labour market imbalances in a broader policy framework, and to acquire basic knowledge. Upon completion of the course, participants will have: • Acquired a good understanding of the drivers of change which impact the demand for skills and the reasons for labour market imbalances and their consequences • Discussed critical milestones, questions, objectives, beneficiaries and target groups of anticipating skill needs for the labour market • Understood the underlying principles of and the different approaches to skills needs anticipation. • Analysed different methods and tools related to quantitative and qualitative methods, which can be used for skill needs anticipation and matching supply and demand in the labour market. • Discussed the different institutional approaches and implications of setting up anticipation systems • Acquired a better understanding of how to analyse and translate data from anticipation exercises into adequate policy making and planning. CONTENT This course consists of the following learning units: • MODULE 1: RATIONALE FOR ANTICIPATION AND MATCHING • MODULE 2: GENERATION AND ANALYSIS OF LABOUR MARKET DATA • MODULE 3: APPROACHES AND METHODOLOGIES FOR ANTICIPATING SKILLS NEEDS • MODULE 4: INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS AND ACTORS & TRANSLATION INTO POLICY AND PRACTICE METHODOLOGY This innovative e-learning course has been designed according to a learner-centered approach in order to better involve participants and keep them motivated. It is highly interactive and engaging, using different methods throughout the four parts of the course to make the content interesting, relevant and entertaining.