Skills Summary

Skills Summary is an easy to use online tool that measures the skills young people gain by participating in youth work and volunteering opportunities, building their confidence, so that they can better communicate the value of these essential skills to future employers.

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There is an increasing focus on the need to identify competencies for life that values people’s full range of skills, whether acquired through formal or non-formal learning. Real competencies are understood broadly as encompassing all competencies acquired through formal education, non-formal education and informal learning.

It is critically important that a young person can identify and articulate these skills both for themselves and potential employers so that when moving to a new job or to further learning, learners and workers should see their skills quickly and have them easily recognised.

This is essential to raise skill levels and increase employability.

Skills Summary is both a process and a product. As a process it aims to support young people’s learning, with a particular focus on those who may find traditional academic learning challenging, by helping them to map the learning acquired through their participation in youth work and other non-formal settings to a set of competences. As a product, Skills Summary will support young people to articulate the competencies they have acquired both for themselves and potential employers.

Skills Summary was launched in March 2019. It will provide a measurement framework for young people, youth workers and educators in the Republic of Ireland including the member organisations of the National Youth Council of Ireland and a significant number of new youth workers and sites, through the Youth Employability Initiative.

Visit our Skills Summary Resources page for helpful resources and inspiration about how to include Skills Summary in your youth work practice.

Skills Summary Resources

UPCOMING TRAINING AND INFO SESSIONS

Skills Summary in Youthreach – Online Training 13th July

This 2 h online training is for Youthreach staff who would like to explore the potential of the digital Skills Summary tool for working with young people in Youthreach – face to face & online. The session will help you to support your young people in realising the strengths they have and in finding a language around their transferable life skills.

Skills Summary Online Video Session 7th JULY

This brief online session is for all who would like to get familiar with the digital Skills Summary tool. The session offers an overview about the features of the tool and introduce supplementary resources to support your work practice.

Skills Summary in Youth Work – Training

This online or in person training is for all who would like to explore the potential of the digital Skills Summary tool for your youth work practice – face to face & online.

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Partners

Skills Summary is a partnership project between the National Youth Council of Ireland, SpunOut.ie, and Accenture. It is funded by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and recognised as a measurement tool in the Youth Employability Initiative.