1. e-Skills QUALITY
Towards an e-Skills
Landscape Service
And Self-Assessment Tool
Lex Hendriks (EXIN)
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2. Target audience
Professionals
What e-Skills are required for my next career step?
Which training/certificate would have added value?
Human Resource Managers,
Employment Agencies,
Recruitment and Staffing Industry
What skills are required for the job?
Which training/certificate bridges the skills gap
Training Providers
Which e-Skills are most wanted?
How do I obtain an e-Skills Quality Label?

3. Towards an e-Skills Landscape Service
Prototype providing:
• Information
– e-Skills Quality
– Demand and Supply
– Mapping of certificates
– Best Practices
• Tools
– Self-Assessment
– European e-Competence
Framework (e-CF)
– ICT Professional Profiles www.eskillslandscape.eu

4. Lots of information
• Results of the study
• Links to external sources
• Content made reusable in the tools:
e-CF, ICT Professional Profiles, Certification Mapping

5. The idea: creating connections
Certificates Mapping User Input
e-CF
ICT Professional Profiles Assessment Results

6. Self-Assessment
Fill in your View your personal Search for your
1 personal details 2 professional profile 3 next step
User input may be: Output:
• Selected e-CF competence • e-CF Profile
• Experience (deliverables) Computing • Nearest ICT Professional
• Certificates Profiles
• (After selecting a profile)
certificates bridging the gap

7. Results of a tiny user satisfaction survey
Questions:
Would the service be welcome, have benefits, be useful?
General trends:
Professionals Employers Trainers
Welcome 80% 75% 95%
Benefits 100% 50% 45%
Useful 60% 75% 60%
(Most respondents where professional experts )

8. Thank you for your attention
empirica GmbH
Oxfordstr. 2
53111 Bonn, Germany
e-Mail: info@empirica.com
Web: www.eskills-quality.eu
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