720133Job Matching Diagnostics for Assessing Soft Skills and Work Role Preferences on a multilingual and cultural basisClosedGRD Development of PrototypeInnovate UKAims: To develop an international, web-enabled psychometric tool that, uniquely, will assess a combination of a person’s soft skills, learning styles and work role preferences. It will be made available in 6 different European languages and business cultures. It will aid employers to define the soft skills needed for a work role and job seekers to understand & articulate their soft skills and aptitudes and, through its job-matching tool, build a structured comparison of the two. Used with a qualifications/experience assessment, it will greatly enhance both recruitment and development processes. Context: EU unemployment currently stands at 23m (UK +2m) with more public sector job cuts looming as governments implement measures to control debt. In the UK a person moving from unemployment to a job earning £24k per year is worth + £11k to UK government (in taxes and benefits). This innovative tool addresses the need employers express for recruiting people with the ‘right’ soft skills & attitudes so reducing staff churn & maximising productivity. Innovation: - assessment of learning styles, entrepreneurial potential and ‘approaches to new challenges’ is a combination currently unique in psychometric platforms - matching the soft skills of a work role with soft skills and employability development programmes – again unique - transnational nature of the tool enabling organisations and candidates to complete assessments in their own language; - outputs that reflect differing EU cultural & business needs. Benefits: Significant societal and economic benefits in use of the tool to recruit the “right person for right job”; enhancing the economic prosperity and sustainable employment for individuals, employers and economic communities. Exploitation: Initially through large group of existing UK/EU contacts. Summary: A validated multilingual/cultural webhosted international psychometric assessment tool for European use in recruitment & employability.