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

2. 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

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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

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

10. ESCO OCCUPATIONS SKILLS QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCES ESCO OccupationQ1 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:

11. 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

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

13. EURES – a platform for exchange of vacancies and CVs

14. 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

15. ESCO is knowledge

16. Thank you !