Career Guide and Mobile Application for Employees Erasmus Project

Project Title

Career Guide and Mobile Application for Employees

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Research and innovation; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

As a result of the rapid developments in the recent years, career management has become one of the key administrative function. The literature review conducted in the study suggested that the business world is on the edge of a new paradigm change called industry 4.0 revolution, human resources management has too many responsibilities to face. Although industry 4.0 offers new opportunities, it has some downfalls as well. The current education and training system is developed according to the requirements demanded by Industry 3.0. Thus, the current graduates, employees, and managers are equipped with an outmoded skill and competency kit. The aim of the project was to offer a career planning tool. After the literature review, the project team decided to include industry 4.0 within the project. In the end project achieved the objectives stated in the project proposal form adding Industry 4.0 perspective. Thus the project produced innovative educational materials and developed a mobile application by which potential employees, employees, and managers can evaluate their skills and competencies based on the requirements demanded by the Industry 4.0 revolution.The project achieved in producing 3 interrelated intellectual outputs. The first intellectual output is the Need Analysis, which covers both literature review on career planning and research on career planning adding Industry 4.0 perspective. Industry 4.0 introduces new technologies such as sensors, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things or smart networks that will influence the manufacturing processes, and that Industry 4.0 demands new competency and skillset from employees. Second intellectual output is the Career Planning Guide which is developed based on the research findings for graduates, employees and managers. The intellectual outputs are used as an antecedent of the stage where third intellectual output, the Mobile Application is designed. The target group includes employees, the individuals who are going to start working in the near future and the managers. Thus, need analysis, the career guide and the mobile application are developed for 3 target groups. By adding competencies required by industry 4.0 point of view, we have achieved in our proposed output that we have designed a career guide and mobile application according to the current developments in labor market. The literature review and survey have been conducted, based on the results of the needs analysis a career planning guide at three levels (the initial, intermediate and advanced career planning) have been produced, and finally the mobile application has been developed on the basis of the career guide, at three levels in each partner organizations’ mother language. The users of the mobile application can select a level based on their current status, and a language according to their preferences, and they can start carrying out their career planning. The mobile application scores the users’ competencies required by industry 4.0 and offers suggestions based on the self-evaluation of the user. For instance, a graduate selects the initial level in order to develop his/her career plan. Likewise, an employee selects the intermediate level, and a director will conduct his/her career planning by selecting the advanced level in the mobile application.
The final results of the project and the potential longer-term benefits are:
The project achieved to rise awareness in industry 4.0 among the students as near future employees, experts as the current employees and managers. The student are now able plan their curriculum according to the competencies worthy in a industry 4.0 setting. Current employees are now aware that it would be difficult for them to find a new job in industry 4.0, and they should gain new competencies, that their skills, competencies, education and training may not be sufficient enough until they retire. The managers are now aware that there is current trend in the business world, and they should plan their human resources in the near future.
The results of the projects offers tools for the potential and current employees plan their own careers.
The mobile application offers tools to self-evaluate the current competencies of the employees. The mobile application can be used to determine the weaknesses and strengths of the employees. Overcoming the weak competencies is supposed to help increase in productivity in the long run.
The mobile application supports information about the current developments in the business world and scores the users’ competencies. The scoring system can be used to determine the areas in which the user has the potential to succeed in business life.
The scores calculated by the mobile application suggests the areas in which more or new training is needed, which can be used for future training plans.
The mobile application offers an option to add competency score calculated in a CV and CV can be emailed by the mobile application.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 138510 Eur

Project Coordinator

Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Project Management Association
• IES Ribeira do Louro
• SPOLECZNA AKADEMIA NAUK
• INNOVAFORM KOZHASZNU NONPROFIT KFT