The Digital Skills and Jobs platform and Europass are proud to announce the launch of the DigSAT (Self Assessment Tool), available from today on both their platforms. From now on, everyone can create a user profile, or use their existing one in both platforms, then take the digital skills test, record the result in the profile, and in the Digital Skills and Jobs platform they will also find a number of trainings on the digital skills they need to reinforce – or learn from scratch.

What is the Digital Skills Self Assessment tool? 

Europass is a European initiative which offers a set of free, multi-lingual digital tools and resources to support citizens’ preparedness for the job market and lifelong learning. Most renown for their curriculum format – and the online tool for creating the Europass CV – the Europass platform allows the user to create a profile for free and use it as a personal online space to record their learning, work experiences, skills, and interests, and share it with others.

The new instrument in the Europass toolkit is the DigSAT, an online test which allows people to evaluate their own level of digital competence. The DigSAT is based on the Digital Competence Framework (DigComp), a set of 21 identified and described Digital Skills for everything related to everyday life and for professional situations. For each skill there are 8 proficiency levels: the results of the test will allow each person to better understand their concrete abilities but also where there are weaknesses that may be limiting: 90 % of jobs today require at least basic digital skills, the SAT tool helps you understand which ones you need.
 

The DigSAT in the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform

The collaboration between Europass and the Digital Skills and Jobs platform is a win-win initiative that aims to integrate the fundamental function of the DigSAT: users of the DSJ platform will be able to take the test here on the platform and after having received the test results, they will be able to access plenty of trainings and information to fill the knowledge gaps identified by the test.

How does the DIGSAT work? 

Once you access the test, you will get a set of questions based on the Digital Competence framework that are structured in a way for you to understand your skills level in a clear manner.  

To start with, you will be asked to answer a few questions with basic information about your dream job and your educational level, just to adapt the test to your needs. After finishing the actual test, you will receive a score and a detailed report on your results, so you will be able to identify your strong and weak areas. Once you have identified the ones that need improvement, you will  find a learning roadmap that will help you identify and take courses to help you achieve specific learning goals: the Digital Skills and Jobs platform is there to give you a wide choice of trainings to reinforce or learn from the basics the digital skills you need. With over 100 training opportunities and programmes, the platform offers something for all levels, from the basic everyday digital skills to advanced academic programs on emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud and much more.

Are you ready to test your digital skills? Take the test today.