4 Ways to Bridge the Global Skills Gap

• Build a pipeline of workers suitably trained for the future labor market that requires both digital and relational skills.
• National skills maps should include standardized definitions and methods that measure whether or not a skill has been learned.
• Leverage corporate training outside of corporations.
• By pairing elements from best-of-class corporate programs with a government-led national policy framework, stakeholders can jointly help establish a high-quality national skills development program that is germane to national and local populations and efficiently achieves scale.

Creating a global or national verification system enables employers to identify the most useful skills for their current employees and set up new hires for success by indicating what additional training they should consider.

A national system built on a technology platform such as a distributed ledger or Blockchain will help employees track and store their skill base and provide employers with a trusted and easily verifiable assessment method.

Insight, access, and trust

These are informational problems that can be addressed by concerted, large-scale investments in skill mapping, measurement, verification, prediction, and development engines

The means for building out these platforms are all at hand, and much promising work has already started