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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. E uropean S kills
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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
European Skills Competences Occupations Qualifications Taxonomy What is ESCO? 3
ESCO - a common language between the labour market and education / training. LabourMarket Skills/Competences Education/training Occupations Qualifications
What can ESCO be used for? Application Examples Job matching Matching at skills level Information on learning opportunities Guidance & counselling Performance management, appraisals Forecasting & planning LabourMarket Skills/Competences Education/ Training Occupations Qualications ESCO as a ’common language’ makes all this possible across countries, sectors, organisations…
Linking together National classifications Sectoral classifications Facilitating exchange of information on jobs, jobseekers, learning opportunities… ESCO - an interoperability tool 6
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 Interoperability
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 Skillsandcompetences A list of Qualifications 8
ESCO Content ISCO88 – Underwater workers Occupations Competences/ Skills 9
(ISCO) SKILLS & COMPETENCES OCCUPATIONS < Professionals QUALIFICATIONS < Other Professionals < Law < Legal Prof. < Lawyers < Civil Law < Tax Law < Languages Q2 O1 O2 O3 O4 S2 S3 S4 S4 S5 S5 Q1 Q3 S1 ESCO ESCO Occupation ESCO Skill/Competency ESCO Qualification ISCO Occupation group Relations between concepts: Narrower Required: Not yet defined: Broader Recommended: Related to Optional:
ISCO 1 2 3 4 5 B A Taxonomy X Occupation names and skills in national, sectoral or other taxonomies can be mapped to ESCO and thereby ensure semantic interoperability
ESCO management structure External Parties Board web-based proposal management tool for input and editing
Matching between job offers candidates’ profiles learning opportunities Geographic mapping of the results Matching & mapping EURESvacancies Employers’ search profiles Web robots … EURES CVs (Europass) CVs on other sites E-portfolios … Learning opportunities (Ploteus) Other sites ... 14