Interaction of ESCO with complementary instruments

Angeliki Dedopoulou

Pedro Chaves 2 June 2015

Purpose of the document

• ESCO links EU instruments with

tools/better services

• Consultation

Structure of document

• ESCO - integrating transparency tools and classifications to deliver better services

• Examples of vocabularies that are integrated with ESCO

• ESCO as building block for services

• European services using ESCO

ESCO -integrating transparency tools to deliver better services

ESCO enables better services in two basic steps:

a. Vocabulary and basic information, interlinked with other vocabularies;

b. Connects the data of applications

ESCO -integrating transparency tools to deliver better services

Vocabularies Services

Vocabularies integrated in ESCO:

ISCED:Fields of Education and Training (FoET)

Use in ESCO: uses FoET to organise qualifications.

Vocabularies integrated in ESCO

International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08)

Use in ESCO:occupations in ESCO are mapped to the latest version of ISCO (ISCO-08)

ISCO-08 structure divides jobs into 10 major groups:

1-Managers

2-Professionals

3-Technicians and associate professionals

4-Clerical support workers

5-Service and sales workers

6-Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers

7-Craft and related trades workers

8-Plant and machine operators, and assemblers

9-Elementary occupations

10-Armed forces occupations

Vocabularies integrated in ESCO:

NACE:Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community

ESCO uses the latest version of NACE (NACE revision 2 of 2008)

NACE Codes

• A - Agriculture, forestry and fishing A1 - Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities A1.1 - Growing of non-perennial crops …

• B-Mining and quarrying B5 - Mining of coal and lignite B5.1 - Mining of hard coal B5.2 - Mining of lignite …

• R - Arts, entertainment and recreation R90 - Creative, arts and entertainment activities R90.0 - Creative, arts and entertainment activities R90.0.1 - Performing arts R90.0.2 - Support activities to performing arts…

Vocabularies integrated in ESCO:

EuropeanQualificationFramework(EQF)

ESCO includes qualifications from national qualification databases with their EQF level

Vocabularies integrated in ESCO:

National occupational classifications for job matching, statistical reporting and/or career guidance (Rome, Berufenet…)

ESCO will become a European reference (hub) to make national classifications interoperable

Enabling better services with ESCO

• competence-based job matching

• exchange of information on jobs, jobseekers or

learning opportunities

• career guidance and counselling

• performance management

• appraisals, forecasting and planning

European services using ESCO

EURES

• European network of employment services

• 850 EURES advisers

• 1.6 million job vacancies

• 160 000 CVs

ESCO

• understandable information across Europe

• 24 languages

European services using ESCO

Europass

• skills and qualifications understandable across Europe

• portfolio of five documents

ESCO

• provides a terminology to describe occupations, knowledge, skills and competences in Europassdocuments

• 24 languages

• electronic services

European services using ESCO

EU Skills Panorama

• central access point for data, information and intelligence on trends for skills

• skill supply, demand and mismatches

ESCO

• facilitates real time analysis of big data

• helps to analyse statistical data and to make it comparable

Thank you for your time and your attention