E-learning course on Skills Anticipation and Matching

This course focuses on the understanding of the central importance of identifying current and future skills needs of the labour market and the main instruments to do so. It gives a basic knowledge of the actors and dynamics in the field of skills anticipation and matching in order to integrate this central issue in a broader policy framework: • Drivers of change which impact skills demand and imbalances on the labour market and their consequences; • Critical milestones, questions, objectives and components of labour market information (LMI), institutional roles and responsibilities; • Providers, users and target groups of anticipating skill needs for the labour market; • Quantitative and qualitative methods, tools for skill needs anticipation and matching supply and demand of skills on the labour market. OBJECTIVES Acquire tools to build a system for early identification of skill needs in a wider context of labour market information and intelligence, and related institutional frameworks: • Understand the underlying principles of and the different approaches to skills needs anticipation; • Better use different methods and tools (quantitative and qualitative) to analyse the skill needs, anticipate and match supply and demand in the labour market; • Adapt different institutional approaches and manage implications of setting up anticipation systems; • Analyse and translate data from anticipation exercises into adequate policy making and planning. CONTENT • Rationale for skills needs anticipation and matching • Generation and analysis of labour market data • Approaches and methodologies for anticipating skills needs • Institutional mechanisms and roles of different actors for anticipation and matching • Sectoral approaches • Translation into policy and practice ACHIEVEMENT • Complete the 7 weekly assignments • Complete a final assignment (pass grade 60/100)