"SKILLCHAIN CAREERS AND CERTIFICATION"
Being able to “go beyond the information given to figure things out” is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.
— Jerome Bruner, The Culture of Education
According to the United Nations Human Development report, the notion of work is broader and deeper than that of "jobs" or “employment”.
The report went further to explain that Jobs provide income and support human dignity, participation and economic security. But Jobs framework is restrictive.
It fails to capture many kinds of work that are more flexible and open-ended, including care work, voluntary work and creative expression, such as writing or painting. What about the business start-ups, SMEs and other private owned businesses? So in this perspective, work is very complex, diverse and varies from place to place.
It can be paid (wages or salaries) or unpaid (volunteer or free work), formal or informal and can occur in different circumstances and also reflect different contexts, views, opinions, quality, quantity, preferences and demands.
As it is with the case of work, so it is with that of the place (environment) and circumstances where such work is being performed.
Careers encompasses---Jobs, Employment, Unpaid care work, Voluntary work, Creative works and Expressions; so is the condition, environment, place and climate in which such work is rendered differs; and the circumstances surrounding the “workplace” or the “workplace climate”.
So, as far as this notion is concerned, there are certain unchanging principles and practices, creativity and innovative skills, effective communication skills and collaborative skills required for any thriving career(s).
Careers and the work world are changing dramatically at an exponential rate due to globalization and technological revolution and is directly and indirectly changing the context of work and required skills.
It is no longer a case of nature and nurture but rather a case of nature, nurture and technology. The drivers of this transformation in careers are majorly due to globalization, digital revolution, global connectivity, interdependence and the blockchain technology.
21st Century Careers and Recruitments:
From SKILLCHAIN Whitepaper, "Industry 4.0" or the "fourth industrial revolution", it was captured that new technology, digitization and new production models are fueling new careers, skills and the consequent revolutionary workplace and recruitment processes.
Efficiency, productivity and new skills are are revolutionalizing careers and the pace of change takes place by moving from a cultural revolution to a structural one, which fundamentally revolves around having the courage to change in order to stay marketable.
The goal of industry 4.0 is to create new jobs that are the result of a high degree of cooperation between workers and technologies. Such that candidates need to be more technologically savvy and remain competitive in order to be relevant.
The table below shows the number of works or jobs that are most and least likely to be replaced by automation:
Least likely to be replaced:
- Recreational therapists
2. First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers and repairers
3. Emergency management directors
4. Mental health and substance abuse social workers
5. Audiologists
6. Occupational therapists
7. Orthotists and Prosthetists
8. Health and social workers
9. Oral and maxillofacial surgeons
10. First line supervisors of fire fighting and prevention workers
11. Dieticians and nutritionists
12. Lodging managers
13. Choreographers
14. Sales engineers
15. Physicians and surgeons
16. Instructional coordinators
17. Psychologists
18. First-line supervisors of police and detectives
19. Dentists
20. Elementary school teachers, except special education
Most Likely to be replaced:
- Telemarketers
2. Title examiners, abstractors and searchers
3. People working in sewers
4. Mathematical technicians
5. Insurance underwriters
6. Watch repairers
7. Cargo and freight agents
8. Tax preparers
9. Photographic process workers
10. New account clerks
11. Library technicians
12. Data entry keyers
13. Timing device assemblers
14. Insurance clames
15. Brokerage clerks
16. Order clerks
17. Loan officers
18. Insurance appraisers
19. Umpires, referees and sport officials
20. Tellers, bank tellers
Source: Frey and Osborne 2013. Permitted by UN 2015 Human Development Report
The question is, are you prepared to respond and adapt to the challenges of the emerging world of work?
The Whitepaper further depicts that new players have emerged on the heels of this trend: job boards (LinkedIn, Monster, Indeed) are platforms that operate on a global market, seeking to meet the required demands of speed, automation and specialization.
As a matter of fact, in 2017, the social network LinkedIn, primarily used to build professional contacts, topped 530 million registered users who put their curriculum vitae (CV) on their public profile, including details of their academic career and relevant work experience.
The tools to advertise a candidate's skills for use by recruiters and employers are essentially based on self-declaration, which is called a CV (or resume) and sometimes fake credentials. Anyone can write a CV with both true and false information, without the possibility of being certified and verified! (SKILLCHAIN White.paper )
The speed of technological penetration into careers and consequent need of the 21st century skills and ingenuity is the objective of SKILLCHAIN.
SKILLCHAIN seek careers, institutions and individuals to be adept and adaptable to this change---new technology, new policy, virtual reality, augmented reality, new products or practice, new market strategy, new learning and information management using the blockchain technology and Smart contracts.
SKILLCHAIN on the Blockchain Infrastructure:
Blockchain infrastructure is a data structure that are immutable but can only be added to, inform of blocks. One data connects to each other on the infrastructure.
As such any changes on one of the data blocks affects the other data. As an openly distributed ledger, which has value, the SKI token was created to enable peer-to-peer trustless transactions.
It is connected such that before any new data is added or mined it must confirm its validity by proof.
Such data can be in form documents or credentials on the blockchain. Documents such as business agreement documents, education certificates, land deeds, births, marriages or other important documents can be entered into the database.
So it isn’t possible to be hacked or faked. Blockchain, with databases split into hundreds of millions of servers, will ensure that the agreement is automatically executed, recorded, and stored in a decentralized, secured and transparent manner for all concerned.
Skillchain protocol will be utilizing this new technology from blockchain to adequately certify all past and present experiences of individuals or personalities and permits academic institutions around the world to interact quickly and easily, certifying students' career paths, the qualifications they earned and exams they took.
Skillchain’s goal is to bring clarity to the work world by making sure that candidates' resumes are not merely based on self-declarations, but are the result of certified and swift interactions with the institutions they come from.
The protocol would be accessible to Universities and vocational training schools and simulation learning/training companies to store data such as diplomas, e-learning courses, and in-class personal development and experiencial training programs.
This is the most effective and efficient means of communicating, transiting and storing personal data securely and transparently; and subsequently accessed by its owners or by person’s authorized to do so.
Everything is connected, fueled by digitization, new technology (blockchain) globalization, mobilization, augmentation, and automation; careers has gone beyond creating profits to you becoming a problem solver through acquired skills as a “means” to new careers.
SKILLCHAIN protocol will alongside look into an institution’s educational curriculum to see if encompasses the 3R (Relevance, Rigor and Relatedness) equating courses and career path’s of individuals with new technologies and different "working climates".
> What is the relevance (or goal) of this course (or "education")?
> What are the processes (or rigor) involve with this discipline?
> Are they in tone with my learning preferences’, personality and interests?
> What linkage do this discipline has with "Industries 4.0", if any?
> How is this course related, applied or used to solve a problem in the real world?
To benefit from the 21st century workplace, "industry 4.0" and the new workforce, requires multiple careers which are trans-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and interdependent and a commitment to lifelong learning…that is what Skillchain Life Skill Passport is all about.
Again, according to the Whitepaper; SKILLCHAIN will globalize the Life Skill Passport, through which everyone will get a personal profile which certifies their academic credentials, participation in vocational training courses, their skills, previous work experience and recommendations received.
It will be user-friendly, quickly accessible, and subject to the profile owner’s desire for privacy, just for a start.
This application can incorporate any certifiable skill, people’s career paths, or even personality test results of candidates embarking on any career path.
The challenge is to create a single place where those who wish to be admitted into a training academy, people applying for a job or participating in non-academic or vocational training courses can look up their own track record, while simultaneously making it available to parties who request access to LIFE SKILL PASSPORT.
The LIFE SKILL PASSPORT will be a world market standard in education and work. Accuracy and transparency of data stored therein will be the new standard for CVs.
This Blockchain-Based document will incorporate users' career path certificates, as well as Blockchain-Based work experience references.
By means of a basic URL, users will be able to substantiate their career path and education credentials in a definitive and unquestionable way to ensure a transparent and genuine presentation.
Skillchain’s vision is one of an ecosystem where certified workers can easily own, manage and monetize their verified skills (user profile) as well as data from their LIFE SKILL PASSPORT experience.
As a decentralized career network, it will be able to translate references and verify appeal into a brand new C.V
The Underlying SKILLCHAIN Structure:
The platform allows users or server owners to access and change their data through security and data extensions.
Extensions can be used through a browser to help users connect or access the skillchain platform. The API will be used as an interaction medium for extensions to interact with Skillchain underlying structure.
With a security extension that is created to clarify and validate whether it contains destructive behavior, this security extension uses bytecode validation as a tool for a completely new scope of commercial applications and applications for blockchain technology. It can also remove the necessary intermediaries in commercial transactions(p2p).
Skillchain making use of the trustless blockchain infrastructure and Smart contracts will have four type of contracts to facilitate the operation as thus:
> Data Storage Smart Contract
> User Profiles Smart Contract
> Employer Profiles Smart Contract
> Public Training Institutions Smart Contract
> Token Smart Contract
Skillchain will be based on the Ethereum wallet and other major blockchains for a start before launching it’s own platform.
The wallet will have the capacity to detect blockchain automatically and utilize the currency required to operate in the environment. Trusted purses on this network can securely transfer funds to one another in a way that prevents losses incurred by mistakenly sending crypto to a non-existent address.
HOW IT WORKS:
Skillchain platform using API can be accessed following any of these:
> Verified Skillchain extension
> Website and,
> Mobile apps
Finally, Skillchain will develop data analytics feature that is embedded with artificial intelligence in order to perform thorough analysis about the job market, high-paying job, or even provides some suggestions about which employer that suitable for the user based on their skillset and previous working experiences.
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