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Key Employability Indicators for National Qualification Agencies – A toolkit
This toolkit demonstrates the utilisation of Key Employability Indicators (KEIs) through which Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) as well as National Quality Assurance Agencies (NQAAs) will be able to monitor employability as a quality concept in higher education. … Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story @ Toolkit for Key Employability Indicators for National Qualification … Continue reading
Skills – U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Job Data Exchange (JDX)
There are 7 million unfilled job postings in America and many of those will remain unfilled because job seekers, employers, and educators are out of sync. Degrees, certificates, and credentials are only as good as the data that informs them. Hiring based on competency rather than degree is on the rise, but not every employer … Continue reading
Good Jobs for Frontline Essential Workers – The Job Quality Initiatives
Between 2017 and 2019, the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, with its network of regional workforce funder collaboratives, launched 11 job quality initiatives to test how employers can introduce, change, and leverage business practices to make jobs better and foster positive outcomes for both frontline workers and their employers. In concert with these initiatives, the … Continue reading
Skills – A Guide for workforce development practitioners
The purpose of this guide is to highlight the competencies that National Fund collaboratives need in order to embark on job quality work with employers. The key word here is collaboratives, not specifically “collaborative directors.” Ensuring that someone has (or is developing) the requisite skills and deploys those skills at the right time is key … Continue reading
Cover Letter – Examples for all
Professional, job-winning cover letter examples for different fields. Learn why they stand out, and create your own with our killer cover letter templates. To help you craft the best cover letter, we’re providing you with some examples to review. Let the content inspire your own cover letter. Think about the most important things you have … Continue reading
Planning Your Child’s Education in the Long Term
By Amiee Morse – Planning for your child’s education is one of your most important tasks as a parent. However, it’s also true that education can be extremely costly, which is in itself is a huge barrier to entry for many families. Our previous post on New Pathways to Success highlights that youth all across the world are having … Continue reading
Skills Recognition of Migrant Workers- Guide for Employment Services Providers
This edition is issued within the framework of the Support to Free Movement of Persons and Migration in West Africa project (FMM), funded by the EU and ECOWAS, and takes on board the efforts made in the ECOWAS subregion to improve labour migration governance and skills portability, in particular skills acquired through non-formal and informal … Continue reading
Covid and Teleworking – A practical Guide by ILO
The purpose of the Guide is to provide practical and actionable recommendations for effective teleworking that are applicable to a broad range of actors; to support policymakers in updating existing policies; and to provide a flexible framework through which both private enterprises and public sector organizations can develop or update their own teleworking policies and … Continue reading
Reskilling and Upskilling – Guidelines on Rapid Assessment in response to the COVID-19 crisis
Skills development has an important role to play in the immediate effort to lessen the impact of COVID-19 while the pandemic is active, in building the resilience of workers and firms, and in preparing for recovery. Time is of the essence in this response, to help speed recovery from recession, to get people back to … Continue reading
Open Badges and Open Microcredentials – A guide to get started
This article is intended as a practical resource to help interested organizations design and implement an open badging system. Open badges are a type of open credential designed to recognize a variety of skills, knowledge, and experiences, both inside and outside of traditional educational settings. While growing in popularity, common questions asked by those interested … Continue reading
Tips for Transitioning Back Into the Workplace
Guess post by Jessica Larson – The pandemic brought our economy and our entire lives to a screeching halt. People in many professions had to start working from home to slow the spread of the disease as medical professionals raced to understand it. We’re nowhere near being out of the woods, but many companies are … Continue reading
Work and Video-conferencing – Which one should I choose?
Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams have perhaps been the most closely contending services vying for users in recent weeks. Each provider has been keeping a watchful eye on their rivals and releasing updates on what seems to have become a near-weekly basis, with the view to giving them an edge over the competition. The … Continue reading
COVID and Skills – How should you rethink your talent strategy ?
How should you rethink your talent strategy so that you have the people you need when the recovery starts? CEOs will be faced with difficult people decisions. However, given the importance of talent in accelerating progress, it’s critical to adopt a through-cycle mindset on people—not just in keeping the right talent but also in building … Continue reading
Teleworking – How to be a successful and persuasive communicator
As social distancing becomes the new normal throughout the U.S. and the world, professionals across industries are making drastic and immediate changes to their work and presentation styles. Remote work was a rising trend before the COVID-19 pandemic, with regular work-at-home growing 173 percent since 2005. With so many additional businesses moving to a work-at-home structure … Continue reading
COVID and Teleworking – 15 tips and tricks on How to use Zoom (free PDF) from TechRepublic
Video conferencing has become more important than ever, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic. Zoom, a popular social platform, has experienced a surge of new users ranging from remote workers to schools. Zoom combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration, enabling users to meet locally, nationally, and globally on any device, anywhere, at any … Continue reading
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