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ESCO v1The developmentof ESCO v1

Fundamental principles: Three pillars of ESCO

Advice of the ESCO Board:

Three pillars

Interconnect the pillars

Stakeholder involvement

Bottom-up approach

Advisory groups: ESCO Board andESCO Maintenance Committee

Involvement of PES, Social Partners, PRES,education & training institutions, etc.

Reference Groups and online consultation

Strong cooperation with the ESCO Maintenance Committee

Guidelines for content development, use of sources

Review of all work processes

Occupations pillar

Occupations in ESCO

Important advice by the ESCO Maintenance Committee:

How to differentiate occupations

Unpaid and voluntary work, self-employment, specialisms, low-skilled jobs

Cover the whole economy

Sectoral overlaps

Skill levels

Occupations in ESCO

Important advice by the ESCO Maintenance Committee(contd.):

Level of granularity

Gap analysis

Compliance with Directive 2005/36/EC

Skills in ESCO

Important advice by the ESCO Board and the ESCO Maintenance Committee:

Normally no inclusion of physical attributes

Knowledge as part of the skills pillar

Learning outcomes terminology

Transversal skills & contextualisation

Action verbs

Skills clean-up

Occupations structure

Important advice by the ESCO Maintenance Committee(contd.):

Monohierarchical structure

Potential additional structure:

Clusters/collections (tbc for v1)

Associative relationships

Skills structure

Discussions with the ESCO Maintenance Committee:

In v1: occupations as main structure for skills

Collections (tbc for v1)

Skills hierarchy: for future discussion

Linking occupations and skills

Discussions with ESCO Board and ESCO Maintenance Committee how to link skills to occupations

Final advice: “essential“ vs “optional“

Mapping to ISCO-08 and NACE rev. 2

Mapping to ISCO-08

Very helpful cooperation with the ILO

Two verification steps

Mapping to NACE rev. 2

On-going discussions with the ESCO Maintenance Committee

Interoperability

ESCO Board and ESCO Maintenance Committee adviced tocarry out a mapping pilot project after release of ESCO v0.

The project involved 4 PES and helped to understand howthe mapping process can best be supported.

Translations

Advice by ESCO Board and ESCO Maintenance Committee on basic principles:

Keyword approach

Laymen‘s language

Languages covered

Unique preferred terms

Translations

Advice by the ESCO Maintenance Committee on the translation process and validation:

Quality assessment

Validation by PES as “plan B“

National occupation classifications as source

Reconsider time frame

DG EMPL and DGT organise the translation process according to this advice.

ESCO pre-release

Result of 5 years work:

35 meetings of BOA and MAI

12 Reference groups

Two stakeholder conferences

Learning outcome workshops

Pilot projects

ESCO pre-release

Result of 5 years work (contd.):

Almost 4 000 comments by 900 experts in the online consultation

Gap analysis against 8 national classifications

Quality assurance and term formulation of 3 000 occupations and 12 000 skills

Time for your questions and comments