Skills Needs Compass

We have developed an anticipation data reporting system that combines important information on skills supply and anticipated demand. The new service provides reliable and up-to-date information on future skills needs from the perspective of continuous learning. It also combines information on skills and labour matching on both regional and national levels. The service is called the Skills Needs Compass. 

The Skills Needs Compass features interactive Power BI reports and visualised statistical data, along with qualitative information and articles.

• Data on skills needs
• Statistics on labour market transitions between occupations and to and from employment, unemployment, study and economic inactivity
• Information about occupations, including descriptions of tasks, skills needs and key figures related to employees
• Statistics and forecasts on completed qualifications in vocational education and training (VET) and higher education
• Data on skills produced by education leading to a qualification
• Sectoral overviews of sectors facing labour shortages and labour market mismatches
• Analytical articles discussing data and themes related to skills, skills needs and skills anticipation
• Learning material to support the use of the service.

For the time being, the Skills Needs Compass is not available in Swedish or English. However, we strive to expand the range of languages available in the future.

Our aim is to create an accessible, approachable and detailed anticipation data platform on skills needs. The Skills Needs Compass is an innovative tool that aims to address challenges of labour force and skills mismatch and improve knowledge-driven management. By combining different sources of information, it provides a more holistic view of a certain topic or phenomenon.

The Skills Needs Compass is part of the statutory task of the Service Centre for Continuous Learning and Employment in analysing anticipation data on skills and labour needs in working life. The development and maintenance of the service is a central and concrete part of fulfilling this task.

The website is specifically designed for education and training service providers, as well as providers and developers of information, guidance and counselling services. Education and training providers and guidance services can utilise the information in the service to support individual choices regarding education, training and career planning, as well as to anticipate the development needs of their own service offering.

The Skills Needs Compass is part of the Anticipation Data Service project initiated in 2022. The aim of the project is to develop a novel reporting system for the anticipation of short and medium-term labour and skills needs. The project is being developed with the support of the European Union's Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) from 2022 to 2025.