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What can job search look like in the future?

What can job search look like in the future?. Carole Still Coventry University London Campus. 11 Dec 2013 Digital innovation in job search – enabling tools for the furthest from work. Coming up…. Current toolbox test National Grid case study The Perfect Storm (of exclusion)

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What can job search look like in the future?

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  1. What can job search look like in the future? Carole Still Coventry University London Campus 11 Dec 2013 Digital innovation in job search – enabling tools for the furthest from work

  2. Coming up… Current toolbox test National Grid case study The Perfect Storm (of exclusion) Employability – “Triangular tensions” A better tool for the future wwwOEStandard.org

  3. Current Toolbox Test Q.1What are A-levels for? Michael GoveSecretary of State for Education July 2010 - Festival of Education speech “The purpose of A-levels is to prepare people for university” wwwOEStandard.org

  4. Current Toolbox Test Q.2 What is a good proxy for a person’s communication skills? In conversation with an ex Secretary of State for Education Dec 2012 “A good grade in English GCSE proves that a person possesses good communication skills” wwwOEStandard.org

  5. Current Toolbox Test Q.3What 3 things do these 2 people* have in common? * and many othersin Government and opposition 1) Passionate about improving outcomes for young people 2) Conviction that academic grades = employability wwwOEStandard.org

  6. Current Toolbox Test Q.4What do employers want/need gradesto be capable of? A proxy for workplace effectivness (a.k.a. “Employability”) wwwOEStandard.org

  7. Current Toolbox Test Q.5Are GCSEs, A-levels, degrees etc. good proxies for employability? No! … but it’s the only convenient, recognised and quantitative tool employers have at their disposal wwwOEStandard.org

  8. National Grid We can’t even read 9000 CVs! 38 Vacancies 9000Applicants So (reluctantly) grade-based screening it is wwwOEStandard.org

  9. The Perfect Storm (of exclusion) ➜ Youth disengage from a game they don’t feel able to play or feel isnot relevant to their life chances Lack of tools beyond grades - which aren’t fit for purpose You get what you measure, but who measures employability? 25 years of CBI surveys (saying the same thing) Grade inflation “We already embed employability in our curriculum” Career academics teaching work skills wwwOEStandard.org

  10. Employability - Triangular Tensions 100% Employers - We need it 75% Universities - Not our job 82% Employers - It’s your job 96% Educationalists - We give it 18% Students - We get it CBI / UUK Future Fit (2009) wwwOEStandard.org

  11. Future toolbox must: • Be Employer led and defined • Be Compatible with academic practice • Have Buy-in from, and responsibility shared by: • Students and young job seekers • Academia • Employers • Solve the “GCSE as proxy” problem • Provide Fresh opportunity for young job seekers & those furthest from the market wwwOEStandard.org

  12. Open Employability Standard • Define Employability • Train & Assess Employability • Hire Employability wwwOEStandard.org

  13. 1. Define Employability Crowd source a superset 2 levels deeper than CBI list of employability skills Competing employability taxonomies everywhere but… “There is no generally accepted skills taxonomy” – EU Commission report, 2011 "Break down skills into smaller parts until they are no longer disagreed on“- Proposal from JISC CETIS conference, 2005 wwwOEStandard.org

  14. 2. Train & Assess Employability • Learning outcomes & assessment criteria • Tutors and trainers can train 2 levels down • Not a single grade, but a “vector” of grades wwwOEStandard.org

  15. 3. Hire Employability If employers are open enough to make their role weightings public, then applicants can self-select which roles to apply for. e.g. A ‘pass’ for KPMG, but a fail for McDonalds” oestandard.org/demo wwwOEStandard.org

  16. No more job description clichés! Employers decide the weighting of each role specific employability skills screen applicants accordingly. “Self-motivated, problem solving team-player, who is dynamic and results oriented …..” wwwOEStandard.org

  17. What can we create? A flexible, public domain taxonomy of employability skills created by employers and used by teachers,students/job-seekers, and employers alike. Quantifying the “unquantifiable” is hard … but it’s not rocket science! “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.” wwwOEStandard.org

  18. Thank You carole.still@culc.coventry.ac.uk and carole.still@oesalliance.org And exercise the “best of your energies and skills” at: www.oestandard.org

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