Mastering Industry’s Skill Gap - Matching Employee Needs with New Learning Challenges
Paper i proceeding, 2024

One of the main challenges employers face today is the growing skill gap, resulting from a mismatch between business transformation and the skills needed by employees. Since the demographics show a declining trend in Europe, China, and the US, recruiting new skilled talent will become an even bigger challenge in the future. The growing skill gap has reached a point where almost half of employees’ skills will change in the next years. For the individual employee, this implies a need to take on an upskilling journey to still deliver value to their company and society. However, there is a need to understand the individual’s skill gap and identify suitable actions to bridge it. This paper presents the implementation of a tool for guiding employees in finding their skill gaps and matching them to relevant training and learning modules. This includes implementing a skill-matching solution in a nationwide Swedish upskilling programme, highlighting the challenges of creating efficient individualized skill gap assessment, and recommending learning paths.

Skill matching

Skill management

Skill gap

Författare

Greta Braun

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Produktionssystem

Mattias Bokinge

Högskolan i Halmstad

Bengt-Göran Rosen

Högskolan i Halmstad

Anna Syberfeldt

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Produktionssystem

Johan Stahre

Chalmers, Industri- och materialvetenskap, Produktionssystem

IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

21573611 (ISSN) 2157362X (eISSN)

668-672
9798350386097 (ISBN)

2024 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2024
Bangkok, Thailand,

Styrkeområden

Produktion

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Företagsekonomi

DOI

10.1109/IEEM62345.2024.10857011

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