09/05/2011 – Lasa and Key Competencies for All Employment Toolkit
Lasa and six European partners are currently working on a project to develop a ‘toolkit' which will help digitally excluded people gain new skills for work.
The ‘Toolkit' will be designed for use in ‘Tele-Centres' or ‘Online Centres' across Europe including the UK. The idea is to enable online centres to help their visitors develop employability skills, from CV building to online job hunting.
With the labour market progressively favouring those with computer skills and internet experience, many people are being excluded from job opportunities. The toolkit is intended to address this issue.
Information Communication Technology (ICT) Skills
There is a great deal of information and a range of self-help tools now available on the web to assist jobseekers, including skills assessments, self-promotion techniques, basic to advanced ICT courses, CV writing and job profile courses. However, many jobseekers are unable to take advantage of these resources, either because they are "offline" or because they have little or no ICT skills.
"KC4All" - Key Competences for All - aims to support these people, by improving their employability through an ICT-based, user-centered learning approach. It is designed as a pathway leading the jobseeker from the choice of a profession right through to a job application.
The intention is to enable end users to develop ICT skills, a sense of initiative, as well as interpersonal and social skills. KC4All also provides Online Centre facilitators and teachers with a set of structured online tools and workshops.
The partners involved in the project are: D-O-T (Spain), Fundación Esplai (Spain), Lasa (UK), Interface3 (Belgium), LIKTA (Latvia), EOS (Rumania) and University of Dortmund (Germany).
We expect to launch the new Toolkit in November 2011.
For more details see the KC4All Employment Toolkit
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