SKILLS ANTICIPATION AND MATCHING

Skills mismatches and labour market imbalances affect all countries. Understanding how to anticipate skills needs and prevent labour market imbalances, therefore, is central to sound economic policy making.

Upon completion of this course, participants will have a good understanding of drivers that impact skills demand, realise why imbalances in the labour market occur in and what are their consequences.

This course will help participants identify milestones, questions, objectives and components of labour market information (LMI) as well as institutional roles and responsibilities.

Providers, users and target groups of skill needs anticipation.

Participants will learn tools for skill needs anticipation and matching in the labour market in the wider context of labour market information and intelligence, and related institutional frameworks.

OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of the course, participants will be familiar with:

• The drivers of change which impact the demand for skills and the reasons for labour market imbalances as well as their consequences.

• The roles and responsibilities of various actors involved in skills needs anticipation.

• The underlying principles of and the different approaches to skills needs anticipation.

• Different methods and tools related to quantitative and qualitative methods which can be used for skills needs anticipation and matching supply and demand in the labour market.

• The different institutional approaches and implications of setting up anticipation systems.

• Analysing and translating data from anticipation exercises into adequate policy making and planning.

CONTENT

This course will consist of the following learning modules:

• Rationale for skills need anticipation and matching

• Generation and analysis of labour market data

• Approaches and methodologies for anticipating skills needs

• Institutional mechanisms and roles of the different actors for anticipation and matching

• Sectoral approaches

• Translation into policy and practice

ACHIEVEMENT

• Completion of the online training activities, including interactive readings, participation in forum discussions, attendance at the online webinar (or viewing its recording), and successful completion of knowledge tests.

• Attendance at the five-day, face-to-face training session.

• Submission of the final assessment.

NUMBER OF HOURS: 60