1. Solutions to recognise skills achievement: Using digital credentials to bridge the gap between higher level, technical and professional students and the jobs market Chris Kirk MD of Digitalme, A City & Guilds Group Business nd November 2018

2. “ ” Skills have become the currency of 21st Century economies.
Andreas Schleicher, OECD Education Vice President ”

3. As people move between jobs and through life it should be easier for them to show the skills they have developed along the way.
‘Good Work’ Taylor review of Modern Working Practices Good Work report (2018) “ “

4. The shelf life of employee skills is shrinking rapidly; a Deloitte survey put it at 2.5 – 5 years for technical skills.
Source: “ ”
Full quote: “Technology changes faster than anyone could have imagined in the not-too-distant past. Global trends, corporate changes, and other shifting sands mean that, for many workers and in many industries, The shelf life of employee skills is shrinking rapidly; a Deloitte survey put it at 2.5 – 5 years for technical skills.”

5. The need to skill, re-skill and up-skill has never been greater
Worldwide by 2030, 700m people could be displaced from their current job unless they receive upskill or reskill training
In the developed world there is insufficient pipeline of future talent with the skills that will be required to fill that 700m gap (if we don’t retrain)
The World Economic Forum predicts that only 2% of workers are likely to have an optimal chance of finding a rewarding new role by 2030 without some reskilling. We can increase that to a 95% chance where there is proper targeted investment.
4 generations of work will need to be upskilled at every level, with each generation requiring quite different blend of learning and skills interventions.

6. We are all lifelong learners, but inflexible recognition formats are proving difficult to share, prove and verify in the online world…
Is there a better way to navigate this?

7. Digital Credentials allow us to finally recognise and communicate all skills in a single consistent way, one that is portable, verifiable and secure.

8. They are becoming the clean fuel for modern employment and career development decisions
Job search
Project Resourcing
Talent Planning
Skills Gap Analysis
Consumer / B2B Confidence
Contingent Workforce Management
…TO POWER Smart ‘BIG-DATA’ DRIVEN HR ENGINES
All skills in a universal and interoperable digital format...
Their modern linked-data structures can be mined, crawled and discovered (AI and Machine Learning ready) in support of a earners’ life goals and to help business deploy skills to increase productivity for economic growth.

9. Honors digital credentialing at Illinois State University
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10. 1,670 students are enrolled on the programme
20%
of all US colleges have issued digital badges
18,000+ badges issued so far

11. A virtuous circle to support life-long employability
FRAME the skills most demanded by employers, through co-creation
CAPTURE and reward progress of an individual’s learning and skills development
CONNECT validated skills with market demand as earnt credentials are shared, discovered and understood

12. Framing your offers around the most in-demand skills
Why?
Better promote your offerings to ever more discerning consumers
Demonstrate your labour market relevance to current and future students
Engage and win commercial business with more tailored employer solutions
What?
From the classroom right into the workplace
Focus on employability & transferable skills missed by traditional credentials
Apprenticeships
Professional practice and CPD (including your own staff)
How?
Co-creating with employers and industry
Mapping to professional and global standards
Enabling central content to tailored to local need (Location, language, employment context etc)

14. Deakin University: Recognising professional practice in the workplace
“Credentials for better business - Formally recognise the skills and knowledge of your workforce with our independent, university- backed Professional Practice credentials”

15. Capturing achievements and rewarding progression
Why?
Improve understanding of the criteria for success
Incentivise progress through the key milestones along the way
Motivate and engage students to help improve course completions
What?
Track linear and non-linear development over long time periods
Micro-credential from knowledge into skills, through to productive application
Across face-to-face, distance and online learning & self-development
How?
Issue credentials to build up a profile of a students holistic skills and achievements
Integrate with you core learning, assessment and administration systems to issue confidently at scale (eg Moodle, Canvass, CRM, e-portfolio etc)
Set issuing permissions and delegate authority to trusted issuers eg Employers

16. Recording pathways though skills & behaviours acquired in the workplace

17. Helping articulate workforce readiness through joint branding

18. Connecting learners with the labour market
Why?
Drive up and track your brand awareness and credibility
Increased trust and confidence in achievements which can be instantly validated and verified
Enable employers to discover and connect with your students
What?
Profile of verified achievements owned and shared by the student
Portal for students to the labour market and jobs
Tool to track applicants, students and alumni across a career
Learner owned (& GDPR compliant)
How?
Credentials shared and seen as they are posted across the web
Skills tags linked to labour market information and live job postings
Individual sharing
Organisation Visibility
See Every Skill
Credentials Account

19. Matching talent to opportunities…
3. Connect &
employ
Employers cam search & filter for verified skills
Matching talent to opportunities…
2. Talent can be reviewed in a defined geographical location

20. Into a job, on the job and onto the next job Through a verifiable record of lifelong learning
A tool to create more agile and employer-responsive provision
Help individuals to better articulate their skills and competencies
Connect students and these skills to the jobs market
Build a life-long mechanism for alumni engagement and tracking
Demonstrate the workplace relevance of your interventions and stand out from the crowd
Measure the impact on your brand awareness as credentials are shared, discovered, validated and understood.