Future Proof: Skills for Work
Good Things Foundation is partnering with Accenture and Nesta to deliver the Future Proof: Skills for Work programme. The programme has been helping build work-related skills for unemployed or underemployed people, helping them achieve positive employability outcomes.
The first year of the programme has been delivered – during a global pandemic – through 13 community partners that provide employability support.
54% of the working-age population are without the digital skills essential for the modern workplace, and the rapid speed of digital change in the workplace has meant that a digital skills gap has emerged. The Future Proof: Skills for Work programme focuses on the behaviour of learners, and how the learning of digital skills can be sustained to close the digital skills gap.
Six digital skills areas have been identified to target: Technical (online and offline), Communication, Information, Creative, Transaction and Safety.
Eight behaviours have been proposed that we believe are crucial in the successful learning and sustaining of digital skills: Habit, Grit, Resilience, Relatedness, Self-efficacy, Motivation, Goal setting and Trust.
Why is the Future Proof: Skills for Work programme important?
78% of learners felt they had improved their career management
47% of learners noted an improved mindset
45% of learners developed increased career resilience
Partnership highlights
Our partners
Accenture
Nesta