Skills and lifelong learning
Skills needs anticipation
Skills needs anticipation focuses on identifying current and future workforce demands to align education and training with labour market trends.
Key areas include analyzing skills supply and demand, forecasting future needs, and tailoring strategies to specific sectors. This approach helps address skill gaps, drive economic growth, and prepare for evolving industry requirements.
Key resources
Sectoral approach
Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED)
The Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) initiative is a targeted technical assistance approach that focuses on skills anticipation to foster growth and create decent job opportunities
Database
Skills for Jobs
The OECD Skills for Jobs Database consist of skill needs and mismatch indicators which seek to monitor the evolution of skills mismatch and shortage
Guidance Note
Anticipating and matching skills and jobs
Publication
Systems and approaches - Analysis of stakeholder survey on skill needs assessment and anticipation
Publication
Skills and jobs mismatches in low- and middle-income countries
Publication
The feasibility of using big data in anticipating and matching skills needs
Research Brief
Navigating the future: Skills and jobs in the green and digital transitions
All resources on skills' anticipation
Resources on skills supply and demand, foresight and forecasting and sectoral approaches.