A system that could not see skills
The teacher shortage is not only about numbers, it is about recognition. Thousands of professionals from other sectors want to move into education, but schools hire on diplomas, and there was no consistent way to judge whether someone’s skills fit the role. People who could do the job stayed invisible.
Their platform, our engine
We connected our skills taxonomy, built at the scale of the real labour market, to EduSkills, ECHT Onderwijs’s own platform. Every candidate’s experience is translated into the competences of seven education profiles, from teaching assistant to school leader, and becomes a skills passport.
- Candidates see where they stand, and which role fits them.
- Schools see professionals in the database, matched on skills to seven education profiles.
- ECHT Onderwijs keeps the method, the brand and the relationship. We run what is underneath.
From invisible to visible
- 35,000+
- profiles in the skills passport
- 7
- education profiles, from assistant to school leader
- National
- demonstration project of the Skills Ambassade, backed by OCW, UWV and NPuls
Schools judge on fit and growth potential, not only on diplomas. In Rotterdam a regional programme has schools look at talent differently. And for the first time, ECHT Onderwijs sells the method beyond education too.
“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.”
