A tool to facilitate (online) skills matching throughout Europe ESCO A tool to facilitate (online) skills matching throughout Europe

Developed by the European Commission in close co-operation with relevant stakeholders. Part of the Europe 2020 Flagship initiative ”An agenda for new skills and jobs” ESCO EURES Match & Map 2 2

European Skills Competences Occupations Qualifications Taxonomy What is ESCO? European Skills Competences Occupations Qualifications Taxonomy Taxonomy: Classification arranged in an hierarchical structure 3 3

ESCO - a common language between the labour market and education / training. Occupations Skills/ Competences Qualifications Education/ training Labour Market

What can ESCO be used for? Information on learning opportunities Guidance & counselling Forecasting & planning Performance management, appraisals Job matching Matching at skills level Application Examples Occupations Skills/ Competences Qualications Education/ Training Labour Market Taxonomies can be used for: Job matching Occupation names in CVs and vacancies Matching at skills level Skills mentioned in CVs and vacancies Intelligent search engines can learn which skills are needed/recommended for a certain occupation Information on available learning opportunities Anticipation of future skills needs Development of skills-oriented services Guidance Assessment Training needs analysis Performance management Appraisals Skills passports ESCO as a ’common language’ makes it possible to do all this across countries, sectors, organisations… ESCO as a ’common language’ makes all this possible across countries, sectors, organisations… 5

ESCO - an interoperability tool Linking together National classifications Sectoral classifications Facilitating exchange of information on jobs, jobseekers, learning opportunities… 6

Interoperability Syntactic (systems are capable of communicating and exchanging data) CV 1 CV 2 Last name: x First name: y First name: y Last name: x --- --- Semantic (to interpret the information exchanged meaningfully and accurately) CV 1 CV2 … … Educational background: L.L.M. Educational background: Jur.kand. Work experience: Judge Work experience: Domare 7

ESCO – a taxonomy of occupations, skills & competences and qualifications ISCO (545 occupation groups) ISCED + (21 education fields + ) ? A list of Occupation names A list of Skills and competences A list of Qualifications Qualifications: additional square? 8 8

ESCO Content ISCO88 – Underwater workers Occupations Competences/ Skills 9 9 9 9

ESCO OCCUPATIONS SKILLS QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCES ESCO Occupation   Q1 Q2 Q3 S4 S5 (ISCO) < Languages < Law < Civil Law < Tax Law O2 O3 O4 O1 S1 S2 S3 < Professionals < Other Professionals < Legal Prof. < Lawyers ESCO Occupation ESCO Skill/Competency ESCO Qualification   ISCO Occupation group Relations between concepts: Narrower Required: Not yet defined: Broader Recommended: Related to Optional:

A B 2 3 4 5 ISCO 1 Taxonomy X Occupation names and skills in national, sectoral or other taxonomies can be mapped to ESCO and thereby ensure semantic interoperability This diagram shows how ESCO can be used to facilitate interoperability between two or more taxonomies by ‘mapping’ them to a common term. In this case, Taxonomy X and Taxonomy Y each have different names for the same occupation; by using elements of ESCO they are not only linked to ESCO, but also directly with each other. 11

ESCO management structure External Parties Board web-based proposal management tool for input and editing

EURES – a platform for exchange of vacancies and CVs

Matching & mapping EURES vacancies EURES CVs (Europass) Learning Matching between job offers candidates’ profiles learning opportunities Geographic mapping of the results EURES vacancies Employers’ search profiles Web robots … EURES CVs (Europass) CVs on other sites E-portfolios … Learning opportunities (Ploteus) Other sites ... 14 14

ESCO is knowledge

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