WEBINAR | Wednesday July 24th

Building Inclusive Pathways to Jobs With Data-Powered Digital Badges

Speakers

Will Cookson

Will Cookson

Lightcast

Tim Riches

Tim Riches

Navigatr

Michael Kane

Michael Kane

Belfast City Council

Key Topics

  • Discover how Belfast City Council is using Digital Badges to enable better participation, evidence and report on skills development and improve outcomes for residents.

  • Understand how they are using Digital Badges to connect employers and learning providers in key industries, helping employers adopt a new skills-based hiring approach to filling vacancies.

  • Find out how they are using Digital Badges to support local learners to discover new opportunities based on their skills, specifically targeting those impacted by social inequalities.

Digital Badges are changing the way that people showcase their expertise and achievements to employers. Combined with skills insights from the world of work, and they become an even more powerful tool for enhancing employability.

Lightcast and Navigatr are partnering together to create data-powered Digital Badges, and in this webinar we’ll be joined by Belfast City Council to talk about how they are implementing them as part of the Cities of Learning movement to:

  • Enable better participation, evidence and report on skills development and improve outcomes for residents;

  • Connect employers and learning providers in key industries, helping employers adopt a new skills-based hiring approach to filling vacancies;

  • Support local learners to discover new opportunities based on skills they have, specifically targeting those impacted by social inequalities.

Join us on 24th July at 11:00am to explore the unique integration of Lightcast’s Global Skills Classification with Navigatr’s Digital Badges, and how it is helping Belfast City Council bridge skills gaps and evaluate career pathways.