INCLUSIVE+: Skill-assessment cards for career guidance now published!

Friday 31 January 2020

How can we increase adult learners’ employability with innovative and practical skill assessment tools in career guidance?

The INCLUSIVE+ consortium has officially finished the development on the project’s first output, namely the Skill-assessment cards for low-skilled adults.

The feedback on the skill assessment cards was highly positive in all five countries. Both adult learners and career guidance professionals engaged actively and showed strong interest in using them in their daily activities. In fact, two of the Italian institutions, in which the sessions were held, already implemented the piloting version of the cards with other adult learners after the end of the piloting.

Both, professionals and adult learners perceived the created tool as a useful and practical instrument, which fosters the reflection on ‘hidden’ competences, the discovering of strengths instead of weaknesses as well as helping to increase adult learners’ self-esteem in general.

In the Italian context, it has become clear that the developed sets of skill assessment cards also have great potential to be implemented in order to foster the labour market integration, not only of locals from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds, but also migrants with a similar educational level. These adult learners often have gathered a lot of informal work experience, which can be ‘translated’ into soft and hard skills to be put into their curriculum, using the skill-assessment cards.

After the piloting, the INCLUSIVE+ skill-assessment cards for low-skilled adults have been finalised based on the received feedback gathered in the various countries. They can be found in CESIE’s Digital Library. Furthermore, a Transnational Piloting Report has been created, summing up the results from the national piloting, which has also been uploaded in CESIE’s Resources page.

In the first half of 2020, the partnership will dedicate itself to the adaption and national testing of another innovative methodology for career guidance professionals, named Career Circles. This process will be accompanied by the development of a user guide, facilitating the methodology’s implementation for people working towards labour market inclusion of adult learners.

About the project

Inclusive+ – Inclusive & Practical Assessment Tools for Guidance Practitioners is a two-year project funded by the Erasmus+ programme, KA2: Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices – Strategic Partnership for vocational education and training.