Job Descriptions and Learning Outcomes

Post added by Aleksov Borcho

The development of NQFs and their implementation is conceived as a learning process. This process creates new knowledge, new understanding about the complex relationship between the worlds of education and work. Special focus on the communication dimension enhances the common learning and the involvement of all stakeholders and their ownership as a “key success factor”.

Facing with very low level of motivation we have been provoked to use a wide range of instruments to enhance the engagement of social partners.

Several thematic events were organized for analysing study programme design and learning outcomes offered in the sectors of tourism, civil engineering, IT and English language teaching. Study programmes and their learning outcomes were compared among different national and international providers and with job descriptions for related job positions on entry level from different domestic and foreign employers.

Communication, initiated by a presentation focusing on the differences and similarities of the learning outcomes and job description language, was shaped so that it becomes interactive and dynamic, leading to cooperation and co-creation. Identifying all relevant stakeholders and the sectors to be involved it is always a challenge. Communication was focused on those components that are the most relevant for social partners with using terminology and recognising competences required for work that social partners understand and support.

The debate resulted with discovering relevant mismatches, lack of some required skills and knowledge as well as the need for more relevant expressions in writing job descriptions. We tried to find ways if the statements, through which the world of work speaks, could be more compatible with the learning outcomes or can we produce learning outcomes in line with the statements.

Employability speaks through statements: are these statements compatible with the learning outcomes or can we produce learning outcomes in line with the statements, e.g.: determine key qualifications.