Future Workplace Skills

Modern society sees disparities between an individual’s skills and skills that companies require for a specific position, leading to a labor market with more vacant positions than individuals willing and having the skillset to occupy them. Thus, it is important for employability counselors to understand the existing work-related skills of unemployed individuals to better assist and support their clients to reintegrate the job market.​

An assessment tool has been developed in the lab to acquire a more comprehensive assessment of an individual’s work-related skills to better assist employability counselors in supporting their clients. The validity and reliability of the tool is currently being tested.