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System for early detection of skills developments

What's the target of the BIBB project on early identifications of skills developments?

Which skills will be needed in the future? Realistic predictions about future skills needs are decisive for the modernisation of training occupations and continuing education and training regulations. In the future it will no longer be sufficient to carry this modernisation out reactively, with a corresponding delay. The changing skills requirements have to be recognised immediately in the process of their development in the future, if the system of vocational education and training is to give timely and effective support to the transformations in work organisation, technology and structure and the transition to a service and information society .

The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training is therefore working - in cooperation with other research establishments and organisations - on instruments for early detection which will make such processes of transformation visible even in their emergence phase.

Sub-projects and contact persons

Analysis of job offers in print and online media and of post-advert questionings of advertisers

The job offers analyses have the goal of gathering detailed data on the requirement profiles in various vocational fields and fields of action and on the changes these profiles undergo over time. In this way, developments within existing professions and fields of action as well as trends in the direction of emergence of new fields of employment can be recorded.

The analyses are based on a representative selection of job offers from daily newspapers and weeklies, specialist journals and online media.
Starting with the year 1999, about 25,000 (regional and supra-regional) job offers per year are being recorded in a data collection mask (and 10% of them additionally in full text form) and then analysed using quantitative and qualitative methods.
For selected fields supplementary information on job details, filling of the job and importance of particular skills is gathered in post-advert questioning of the advertisers.

Results of the BIBB job offers analyses >> (de)

  • Contact person
    Dr. Peter Bott
    Phone: (0228) 107-1128
    Fax: (0228) 107-2955
    E-mail: bott@bibb.de

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Evaluation of innovative continuing education and training offers

Providers of continuing education and training are among the major indicators of skills developments, since they react immediately to the developments in the economy with their continuing education and training offers. The Continuing Education Innovation Prize (WIP) of the BIBB has been awarded since 2000 with the goal of detecting innovative measures.

  • Contact person:
    Dr. Wilfried Brüggemann
    Phone: (0228) 107-1132
    Fax: (0228) 107-2955
    E-mail: brueggemann@bibb.de

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Company surveys

The goal of the company survey is the detection of changed skills needs made necessary by acute or impending process, product and organisation innovations. It is assumed in this connection that the companies are the first and among the best sources of estimates about the effects of, for example, economic, technological and organisational changes in their companies on the skills required of their employees.

Corresponding polls are regularly conducted in reference companies. The system of reference companies comprises more than 2,000 companies (both companies providing training and companies not providing training) distributed representatively across the area of the Federal Republic. The reference companies differ with regard to size, branch, industry sector, legal form, year of foundation and vocational focus.

  • Contact person
    Hans-Joachim Schade
    Phone: (0228) 107-1117
    Fax: (0228) 107-2955
    E-mail: schade@bibb.de

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Making the expert knowledge of consultants and attendants of company changes accessible

This project attempts to make accessible the knowledge of external consultants and in-company experts from management and the development and personnel departments as well as of employers' representatives regarding skills developments.
The objects of investigation are the emergence conditions for new qualifications in companies, the skills needs of the company and the in-company qualification concepts, as well as their implementation and acceptance in the company.
Guideline-based interviews with external consultants and in-company experts are conducted and case studies of consulting and attendance processes of company restructuring measures are carried out to gather the data. They are supplemented and/or prepared by company surveys done in written form in the framework of the system of reference companies (RBS) of the BIBB.  

  • Contact person
    Dr. Agnes Dietzen
    Phone: (0228) 107-1125
    Fax: (0228) 107-2955
    E-mail: dietzen@bibb.de

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Aufbau einer Expertengruppe Organisationsberater zur Qualifikationsforschung und Früherkennung betrieblicher Qualifikationsentwicklung

Anknüpfend an Erfahrungen und Ergebnisse des BIBB-Forschungsprojektes zum "Erfahrungswissen von Beratern und Begleitern betrieblicher Veränderungen als Beitrag zur Früherkennung der Qualifikationsentwicklung" sollen durch den Aufbau einer Expertengruppe die Voraussetzungen geschaffen werden, Erfahrung und Methodenkompetenz von Organisationsberatern für die Forschungsarbeit im BIBB insbesondere in der Früherkennung der Qualifikationsentwicklung dauerhaft zu nutzen. Angesprochen sind Berater, die in den Feldern der betrieblichen Personalpolitik, Führungskräfteentwicklung, Personalauswahl und -entwicklung, Organisationsentwicklung und des Change Management (einschließlich Strategieentwicklung sowie Fach- und Prozessberatung) tätig sind. Eine Zusammenarbeit wird zunächst in ausgewählten thematischen Schwerpunkten und Handlungsfeldern erprobt.


  • Ansprechpartnerin:
    Dr. Agnes Dietzen
    Tel.: (0228) 107-1125
    Fax: (0228) 107-2955
    E-Mail: dietzen@bibb.de

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Early detection of skills development in human services

Development tendencies relevant to employment and qualification in the human services sector are supposed to be detected in this ongoing project via a system of empirically founded and systematic methods and instruments for the long-term observation and early detection of skills developments.

A 4-stage model for systematic long-term observation was developed, based on eight case studies from the fields of healthcare/social work and education. These fields were selected because they are considered to be expanding areas on the one hand and because they lie outside the traditional fields with their institutionalised regulations and structures of participation in vocational education and training on the other hand.

The 4-stage model assumes that indicators of developments relevant to employment and qualification can be found at a very early stage, even before concrete vocation-like structures emerge. The indicators were determined in a retrospective analysis of the process of vocation emergence in the cases of the occupational profiles of Surgery Technology Assistant, Health Advisor, Certifier/Auditor for Educational Establishments, Learning Advisor, Childminder, Social Assistant, Hospice Care and Fitness Trainer.

The occupation-specific information system for constant observation and early detection of skills developments in the human services will be systematically utilised starting from October 2000.

  • Contact person
    Barbara Meifort
    Phone: (0228) 107-1109
    Fax: (0228) 107-2978
    E-mail: meifort@bibb.de

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quo - skills development on-line

The on-line information system presents quintessential results of the empirical studies of the BIBB and other institutions in a standardised and compressed format.

  • Contact person
    Bernd Selle
    Phone: (0228) 107-1131
    Fax: (0228) 107-2955
    E-mail: selle@bibb.de

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BIBB series of publications

The BIBB publications continually report on results of and research methods applied in the early detection projects of the Institute. After the publication of the Qualification Report 1, issues 1 and 2 of the series 'Early Detection of Skills Development' were published.

  • Contact person
    Dr. Wilfried Brüggemann
    Phone: (0228) 107-1132
    Fax: (0228) 107-2955
    E-mail: brueggemann@bibb.de

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Qualification Structure Report

The Qualification Structure Report is published in cooperation with the Institute for Employment Research  (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - IAB) of the Federal Employment Services, the German Institute for Economic Research (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - DIW) and the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin - WZB). It provides information about the general trends in the working world and in skills development in the form of a collection of relevant statistical data  (Microcensus, employment statistics etc.) and extensive, representative surveys (BIBB/IAB surveys, SOEP).

The first Qualification Structure Report was published in January 2001. It is planned to renew the report every 5 to 6 years.

  • Contact person
    Anja Hall
    Phone: (0228) 107-1103
    Fax: (0228) 107-2955
    E-mail: hall@bibb.de

Last modified on: November 20, 2006

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