News & Events of DEVELOP

In a world of rapid global change, companies have to adopt regularly in order to survive and not to vanish due to their incapability to become resilient. In recent years, companies also have to fight over people. So talent attraction and retention has become the most crucial bet that companies have to win every single day.

The project member Mirjam Neelen reports on the EARLI special interest group (SIG) 27 conference. The conference deals with online and more objective measures of learning processes. The idea is that learning processes are very important to understand because learning is an on-going process leading to an outcome.

DEVELOP is participating at the Earli Sig 27 conference in Oulu, Finland, 29th November - 1st December. Mirjam Neelen will present a poster on "Supporting Career Development Through Transversal Competency Assessment".

Soft Skills like Communication, Negotiation and Time Management are important both for private and business life. They are prime examples of transversal competencies that aid career development and can be applied across the job roles employees face during their career.

With the growth of enterprise social networking services, social dimensions of work are getting more attention within the organisations. Beyond the use of the tools for collaboration, these services provide many other indirect benefits such as the possibility to determine the “Social Capital” of each employee.