Skills audit

Definition

The skills audit is a tool included in Educational and vocational guidance, and comprises a process of analysing knowledge, skills and competences, work experience and motivations of an individual, to identify his/her training needs, define a career project and/or prepare a retraining / reskilling plan.

A skills audit aims to help individuals:

• analyse their career background,
• self-assess their position in the labour environment
• define their training needs,
• prepare themselves for validation of non-formal or informal learning outcomes,
• plan their career pathway.

^{Source: Cedefop, Glossary - Terminology of European education and training policy}

Employment agency (Agence pour le développement de l’emploi – ADEM)

Any job seeker registered with the ADEM may, under certain conditions, benefit from a skills audit.

Training providers

A number of institutional and private training providers are able to offer their expertise regarding the skills audit, and may be contacted for more information.

View the list of training providers that are members of the lifelong-learning.lu portal and offer a skills audit, listed by training domain.

View the list of training courses preparatory to a skills audit or assessment of professional experience.

Help with making a career change

Various assessment tests are available online to help you gain a better knowledge of your personal and professional profile and offer guidance in choosing a new career by providing you with an initial idea of your personal profile.

To get to know yourself better and find out which new career path to pursue, you can complete some online tests. These will give you an initial idea of your profile.

More information available on the website of the Educational and Vocational Guidance Centre (Maison de l'orientation).