Überblick
"(...) Recent developments in workforce skills requirements affect Public Employment Services (PES). They need to
offer new services, forms and channels of delivery, as well as provide up-to-date skills development, assessment and
validation practices. The aim of the PES Network seminar ‘New forms of skills assessment and validation – impact on
PES services and counselling’ was to support PES in further developing their support of future skills through the
exchange of practices. It explored and discussed experiences in the use of new forms of: (1) skills assessment, (2)
skills recognition and validation, and (3) skills-based training, including micro-credentials. The seminar showed that
skills assessment processes and procedures are generally well-established in PES in Europe. PES play an important
role in providing and coordinating skills assessments in the form of tests (online and on-site), self-assessment and
counsellor-supported services. (...)"