\u2018Skills intelligence\u2019 is a term CEDEFOP has coined. It \u201chelps translate megatrends and aspirations of key stakeholders at national, regional, local and sectoral level into labour market trends and skill needs [and] is essential for shaping feedback loops that effectively transmit labour market signals to education and training systems.\u201d This is done because<\/p>\n

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Shocks and rapidly accelerating transitions have contributed to increased uptake of technology and skill foresight methods, which have become much more used in skills anticipation compared to a decade ago.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Skills intelligence includes the processes supporting \u2018skills needs anticipation,\u2019 which \u201cis the process of identifying skills the economy will require in the short, medium or longer term, to balance skill supply and demand and to promote economic development via skills investment in people, countries, regions, sectors and enterprises.\u201d However, to be effective and make a difference \u201cit must be part of well-functioning skills ecosystems\u201d and be holistic and inclusive, the brief argues.<\/p>\n

A wide variety of intelligence gathering approaches can be used, including technological and skills forecasts and foresight, learner and graduate tracer or tracking surveys, big data analysis (including through the use of AI) and skills and job surveys. Skills anticipation outcomes can be used to identify labour market shortages, in advising career and vocational guidance services, and to allocate continuing training programme subsidies and advise migration policy.<\/p>\n

This work may be undertaken centrally by government agencies, or through collaboration by a range of bodies at different levels. In Australia it is Jobs and Skills Australia<\/a> that plays an important central role. Indeed, according to their website, their aim is to be \u201ca catalyst in activating the potential of Australia\u2019s human capital to meet present and future skills needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Becoming more effective<\/h2>\n

CEDEFOP\u2019s policy brief suggests the following \u2018take away\u2019 messages:<\/p>\n

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1. Maintain a robust political commitment towards improving skills anticipation and its uptake<\/li>\n
2. Accelerate innovation in skills anticipation methodologies.<\/li>\n
3. Leverage method diversity through effective coordination<\/li>\n
4. Connect stakeholders effectively. The brief argues that \u201cNo stakeholder can afford to think and act as an island when information exchange and activity coordination are drivers of success and progress. Stakeholders need to be mobilised to engage with one another horizontally (e.g. by linking government agencies), vertically (e.g. across value chains), and across geographic areas.\u201d<\/li>\n
5. Champion network thinking and acting and move away from silo thinking and acting.<\/li>\n
6. Training in, and using, big data and AI more effectively. This action highlights \u201cthe importance of familiarising people with big data and AI, and how they can contribute to better understanding of trends, phenomena and contexts and underline the need for more targeted actions.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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