A case · with ECHT Onderwijs
35,000 people who want to teach.
ECHT Onderwijs helps career switchers into education. The system couldn’t see their skills. Now it can.
A system that doesn’t see skills.
The teacher shortage isn’t only about numbers; it’s about recognition. Thousands of professionals from other sectors want into education, but schools hire on formal qualifications, and there was no standard way to judge whether someone’s skills fit the role. Capable people stayed invisible.
Their platform, our engine.
We connected our skills taxonomy, built to the scale of the real labor market, to EduSkills, ECHT Onderwijs’s own platform. Every candidate’s experience maps to the competencies of seven core teaching profiles, from learning assistant to school leader, and becomes a skills passport: candidates see where they stand, schools see who’s ready.
From invisible to visible.
- 35,000+ professionals in the database, each matched automatically on skills to seven core teaching profiles.
- Schools judge readiness and growth potential, not only degrees.
- A regional program in Rotterdam helping schools rethink talent identification.
- Named the national demonstration project for education by the Dutch Skills Ambassade, supported by OCW, UWV and NPuls.
“We now have a foundation to talk to the sector in a new way. A data-backed conversation about what someone can do, not only what is on paper.”
Your case could be next.
Direct, or the way ECHT Onderwijs did it: your service, our engine.