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The right digital skills for your expected career: Compass Digital Skills

Digital Skills for entering the job market: Booking a flight, creating an online resume, dealing with controversial on-line contents, sharing documents with your colleagues, protecting your accounts from hackers: these are daily matters for an ever-growing number of European citizens, regardless of age, job or education.
At the same time data show that Informatics and Digital curricula are heterogeneous across Europe, while actual competences are not sufficient for the job market and there is a wide skills mismatch. This scenario will become even sharper in the coming years due to the rise of Artificial Intelligence, Bots, Internet of Things, mobile devices and social platforms.

Co-funded by DG CONNECT, European Commission, a consortium of four agencies (Expertise France from France, Dara Creative from Ireland, Lai-Momo from Italy, and Siveco from Romania) decided to tackle the need for digital skills for young unemployed Europeans. In 2017 they launched the project studying the target’s need of upskilling, later designing Compass, a digital upskilling platform. They didn’t have to define skills from scratch: the nine lessons available in Italian, French, English and Romanian, are based on the European Commission’s Dig Comp framework. The platform currently offers nine lessons, either foundation and advanced level, about:

• Searching information and digital content
• Collaborating on-line
• Creating creative contents
• Interacting through digital technologies
• Programming
• Protecting devices
• Sharing on-line and protecting personal data

Using the competences and the scenario defined by the framework has permitted to ensure the standards of digital competency.

Which digital skills do you really need?

Nesta’s study of 41 million job adverts reveals not all digital skills will be equally valuable in the future and creativity is key.

By 2030 the job market will look dramatically different. Previous Nesta research has predicted that about 10 per cent of workers are in occupations that are likely to grow as a share of the workforce and 20 per cent will shrink. As for the remaining jobs, their outlook is more uncertain. Although unsettling, this disruption needn’t be disastrous for the workforce. There is an opportunity for employees in uncertain or shrinking occupations to improve their prospects by investing in the right skills.

Policymakers consider digital skills to be a top priority for investment. They are seen as offering people greater employability and job resiliency.

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Competencias digitales para perfiles profesionales

Cada vez son más las instituciones y profesionales que identifican con claridad la necesidad de describir con precisión las competencias digitales que se requieren en una ocupación determinada. En este caso, Inma Zambade hace un análisis, siguiendo el marco DigComp, de las herramientas digitales que se integran en la consulta del médico, el control de enfermería o los despachos de gestión sanitaria en su publicación:

Competencia Digital Sanitaria. 10 Herramientas imprescindibles que un Médico debe saber utilizar en la Red para hacer un uso productivo y avanzado de los recursos tecnológicos que tiene a su alcance el profesional de la salud que le puedan ayudar en tu práctica clínica.

The European Commission, with the contribution of the Digital Champions, has identified some great projects that could be an inspiration for other similar initiatives, that could also be supported by the European Social Fund.

These nine projects are «just» good examples of the amazing creativity, passion and hard work of so many individuals and organizations – who all believe that, indeed, «a digital Europe needs digital skills»

Co-organised by the European Commission and the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Digital Assembly is taking place on Sofia, Bulgaria on 25 and 26 June 2018.

The Plenary discussions taking place during the two days of the assembly will focus on the following key digital priorities:

• Strengthening cybersecurity;
• Digital skills;
• Artificial intelligence;
• The Internet of Things;
• Tackling disinformation.