Skills anticipation and matching

For developing and transition countries, skills matching and anticipation is becoming an even more complex task given their particular socio-economic conditions, weak institutions, capacities and governance systems. Many developing countries have limited labour market information, considered the backbone of any education and employment strategy, and more effort and investment is needed to build robust information systems. At the same time, even limited evidence can be better, and more efficiently used, with proper methodological tools and analyses.

To respond to these challenges, the European Training Foundation (ETF), the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and the International Labour Office have joined forces and combined expertise and geographic coverage to develop a compendium of methodological guides on anticipation and matching of skills supply and demand.

They include:

• Volume 1: Using labour market information
• Volume 2: Developing skills foresights, scenarios and forecasts
• Volume 3: Working at sector level
• Volume 4: The role of employment service providers
• Volume 5: How to develop and run an establishment skills survey
• Volume 6: Carrying out tracer studies