Soft skills are essential to find and keep a job. To ensure that young people have the right soft skills, the Belgian training fund for the agency work sector, Travi, developed an online tool to test soft skills and get advice on how to improve them.
The challenge
Soft skills are essential to find and keep a job. Development of such skills is however rarely or inadequately addressed in education.
Almost 50% of employers believe youngsters lack soft skills to be able to communicate in writing. The lack of soft skills impacts the chance of young people to get recruited or even to keep their job.
Solution
Testyourselfie is an easy to use online tool for young people to test and assess their soft skills. In the end the user receives a personalised overview on how he or she can improve his or her soft skills to be successful on the labour market.
The test has been developed on the basis of a research project done by the University of Leuven.
The tool is available in the French and Dutch languages. It was developed by Travi, the bipartite training fund set up by the social partners of the agency work sector in Belgium (Federgon, FGTB, CGSLB et CSC).
Key numbers
40523
users
260000
€ budget
Resources
Outcomes
- Research report by KU Leuven ‘The importance of human skills for youngsters at the (future) labour market.
- Website
- Fact sheet on best practices in different countries involved
Country/ies of implementation
Partners
- Agency work sector training funds (STOOF – The Netherlands ; FSI – Luxembourg and FAT.TT – France)
- University of Leuven
- European Union (funding through the Erasmus + program)