ICoBCAcademy

Skills-Based Hiring and Internal Mobility with Credentials

Using credentials as evidence in selection and career moves.

  • Ability
  • L3 Enable
  • Practitioner
  • Skills-based talent practice
  • ICB-P16
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Why this course

Companies are the first website segment, and their goals are closing skill gaps and verifying talent. Without employer use, credentials have no labour-market value; this course creates demand-side pull that benefits every issuer.

What you will be able to do

  1. Redesign a job advert and a selection step around skills and credentials.
  2. Decide which credentials to accept for which requirement, and how to verify them.
  3. Use credentials in internal mobility and development conversations.
  4. Check selection processes for fairness and legal risk.

Modules

  1. From degrees to skills
  2. Skills-based job design
  3. Credentials in selection
  4. Internal mobility
  5. Fairness and law

Assessment

Redesign one role's hiring process with acceptance rules and a fairness check.

Badge evidence: Redesign document.

Prerequisites: ICB-F04 | ICB-F05

Who it is for

  • Companies and employers

Framework alignment

ICSFframeworkTALNskillL3levelAstage

Skills-based talent practice (TALN, VRITE pillar Impact)

Related skills: Skills taxonomies and alignment, Standards and interoperability. About the framework

Use in your organisation

In corporate training

Blended cohort module for L&D and corporate academy leads; HR, talent acquisition and mobility; Executive sponsors (CHRO, CLO, CDO). Badge aligns to ICSF TALN L3 (SFIA 4) and can be referenced in role profiles. Counts as skill evidence; competency on the job needs a V-series validation.

In education

Micro-credential of 8 h notional workload (about 0.3 ECTS), indicative EQF 5 to 6, assessed by assessed practical task with rubric. Stacks into pathway PW01, PW05.

EU micro-credential elements

Awarding body ICoBC e.V. or licensed issuer. Learning outcomes: see column. Notional workload: 8 h (about 0.3 ECTS). Level: ICSF L3, EQF 5 to 6 (indicative). Type of assessment: assessed practical task with rubric. Form of participation: Blended: online self-study and facilitated cohort sessions. Type of quality assurance: ICoBC internal QA against VRITE. Prerequisites: ICB-F04; ICB-F05.

Elements following the Council Recommendation of 16 June 2022 on a European approach to micro-credentials.

Part of these pathways

Quality and AI

Quality focus: VRITE Value and Impact.

AI dimension: AI screening tools: high-risk classification under the AI Act and human oversight.

Improve this course

The course is open on GitHub in LiaScript format under CC BY 4.0. View the source or read how to suggest a change.