ESCO

Introduction

ESCO is the nascent European taxonomy of skills, competences, occupations and qualifications.

There may be the opportunity for ESCO to use or recommend an emerging InLOC format for the exposing of competence information by those holding it, or by ESCO itself.

General information

(see Example source guidance)

information to be gathered details
Name / title of source/model and version if applicable European Skills/Competences, qualifications and Occupations (ESCO)
Stakeholder European institutions, employment services, employers and jobseekers, education/training institutions, statistical offices, HR professionals and others
URL of source or stakeholder http://ec.europa.eu/esco (first public version due winter 2012-2013)
Orientation (work, education, etc.) Bridging the gap between education and work
Explicit model or implicit model? Explicit data model is being finalised
Can organisations have competence?  
Number of people currently affected Large number of people affected, in particular through the use of ESCO for the EURES Job Mobility Portal with more than 4 million visitors per month.
Sectors covered all sectors
Groups of actual users EURES, Public Employment Services and others.
Significant use cases IT systems using ESCO as semantic interoperability asset.
Significant business cases Use of ESCO in
  • online job matching platforms (in particular for skills-based job matching and cross-border job matching),
  • career guidance tools, and
  • statistical analyses.
Sample materials  
Key features influencing their uptake of InLOC outputs  

Any other or longer information