The e-skills Passport is a simple-to-use on-line tool that enables individuals and organisations to assess current IT skills, identify gaps, and set learning targets and record improvement. e-skills Passport enables users to record achievements and re-visit their passports again and again as skills improve. Organisations use e-skills Passport to get a snapshot of workforce IT skills and target training accordingly.
If you are an individual that has been issued with a username and password by your organisation please go to the user site at www.e-skillspassport.com to start creating your e-skills Passport.
If you have an administrator username and password, please log in on this home page.
At the heart of e-skills Passport is an employer-defined framework of skills, which is linked closely to the IT User National Occupational Standards, upon which most IT training in the UK and all UK IT qualifications are based.
The e-skills Passport is an ideal tool to use to determine your current skills levels then, working with your sponsor organisation, set a plan in place to improve them. This can lead you to better IT skills and a qualification.
Users start by self-assessing their current skills against 15 common computing techniques by answering yes/no questions against five levels from inexperienced (where you have limited skills), foundation, intermediate, advanced and super-user (where your skills are very good indeed).
Once you have completed your assessment, and if your sponsoring organisation has agreed and set targets for you, you can plan learning to improve your skills. This can simply be the learning of new skills OR you can gain qualifications and record those in your e-skills Passport.
You can revisit you passport again and again to update, print and e-mail it.
NB: To use e-skills Passport you will require a minimum set of Operate a Computer skills such as the ability to use a mouse, access the internet, and enter data using a keyboard. e-skills Passport is not intended or suitable for individuals with no IT skills whatsoever, and those individuals may need help using the tool at first.