Podcast Objectif Compétence - Episode 1: La compétence va-t-elle tuer les métiers ?
Podcast Objectif Compétence - Episode 1: La compétence va-t-elle tuer les métiers ?
French
Employers' organizations
Employers invest in training in order to improve productivity, innovate and adopt new technologies, and compete in changing markets. Case studies and research from individual employers and associations of employers on the Global KSP deal with apprenticeship and workplace skills provision, quality assurance and governance of training institutions, and employers’ roles in anticipating skill needs and in influencing national and sector policies on skills development.
Core skills and literacy
Core employability skills build upon and strengthen the skills developed through basic education; the technical skills needed for specific occupations or to perform specific tasks or duties (such as nursing, accounting, using technology or driving a forklift); and professional/personal attributes such as honesty, reliability, punctuality and loyalty.
Core work skills enable individuals to constantly acquire and apply new knowledge and skills; they are also critical to lifelong learning. Various agencies and organizations have given different labels to these skills, ranging from “key competencies” to “soft skills”, “transferable skills” or “essential skills”.
Digital skills
The world of work is undergoing a substantial transformation due to new forces. In particular, technological advances, such as AI, automation and robotics, have produced numerous new opportunities, but also given rise to urgent challenges. While new jobs are constantly being created with the emergence of the digital economy, many jobs are at risk of becoming obsolete. Digital innovations will rapidly change the demand for skills, thereby creating a wider skills gap that has the potential to hold back economic growth. Equipping people with basic or advanced digital skills promises to prepare them for unprecedented job opportunities in the digital economy. This will lead to innovation, higher productivity and competitiveness, as well as expanding markets, access to work and entrepreneurship opportunities.
Lifelong learning
There is a critical need for a greater overall investment in education and training, particularly in developing countries. Education and training investments should be closely linked to economic and employment growth strategies and programmes. Responsibility should be shared between the government (primary responsibility), enterprises, the social partners, and the individual. To make lifelong learning for all a reality, countries will need to make major reforms of their vocational and education and training systems. School-to-work schemes for young people should integrate education with workplace learning. Training systems need to become more flexible and responsive to rapidly changing skill requirements. Reforms should also focus on how learning can be facilitated, not just on training for specific occupational categories.
Skills for green transition/climate action
The growing importance of sustainable development and the shift to a low-carbon and climateresilient economy will require new skills and qualifications, offering great potential for the creation of green jobs but also implying structural changes and a transformation of existing jobs. The transition to a low-carbon and greener economy will generate millions of new jobs, negatively affect some high-emitting sectors, and alter most existing occupations in terms of task compositions and skills requirements.
Ensuring the right skills for green jobs is a prerequisite to make the transition to a greener economy happen. Today, skills gaps are already recognised as a major bottleneck in a number of sectors, such as renewable energy, energy and resource efficiency, green building or environmental services. The adoption and dissemination of clean technologies require skills in technology application, adaptation and maintenance. Skills are also crucial for economies and
businesses, workers and entrepreneurs to rapidly adapt to changes deriving from climate change and environmental policies.
Promotional material
Presentations, discussion papers, meeting reports, promotional materials, videos, fact sheets, brochures and newsletters on skills development for employment.
Objectif Compétence est un podcast sur la montée en compétences dans un monde du travail en constante évolution : Comment les métiers sont bouleversés par la transformation numérique et la transition écologique ? Comment les territoires font face à la pénurie de main-d'œuvre ? Quelles soft skills sont devenues indispensables sur le marché du travail ?
Objectif Compétence est un podcast des Acteurs de la Compétence, la fédération professionnelle qui défend l'accès à la formation. Cette fédération rassemble les entreprises qui contribuent au développement des compétences, et favorise une filière d’excellence française.
Episode 1 : La compétence va-t-elle tuer les métiers ?
Nous entendons souvent que certains métiers sont amenés à disparaître. D'autres se transforment. De nouveaux métiers vont sans doute continuer à apparaître. On peut difficilement dire à quoi ressembleront les métiers de demain. Dans un monde où les métiers se transforment à une vitesse grand V, les compétences semblent être des valeurs sûres.
Dans ce premier épisode, nous allons nous interroger sur la tension entre le métier et la compétence, et tenter de comprendre pourquoi la compétence a pris une place si importante dans les parcours professionnels et le processus de recrutement.
Nous rencontrerons durant cet épisode Michel Barabel, directeur de l’Executive Master à Science Po et Thibault Lanxade, PDG de la Société Jouve.
Skills re-training
Skills upgrading
Soft skills
Europe and Central Asia
