A new approach to benchmarking the skills of companies and their employees, which then delivers the shortest and most efficient path to learning and career progression.

技能短缺是英国的一个主要问题，之所以会出现技能短缺，是因为没有足够的拥有特定技能的人来满足需求。开放大学估计，技能短缺每年让英国在更高的工资、招聘成本和临时员工账单上损失20亿英镑。它们还会显著阻碍经济增长。根据经合组织的研究，如果英国将技能错配水平降低到经合组织最佳实践水平，那么英国的生产率可以提高5%。全世界都在寻找替代、高效和负担得起的教育。比尔·盖茨很好地总结了这个问题：“我读的比教科书上的要多，”盖茨说。但这是一种非常有限的学习方式。即使是最好的课本也搞不清你理解了哪些概念，哪些概念你需要更多的帮助。软件可以用来创造更有活力的学习体验。我们的目标是创造最短和最有效的就业和职业发展途径。我们的电子学习平台技术构建了一条个性化的学习路径，帮助用户有目的地学习，以实现他们的职业目标。我们使用一个三步技能流程--人工智能分析世界上最好的公司的职位描述，从中挑选出最常见和最重要的技能。2)学习-我们从网络上获取最高质量的学习材料，创造挑战，跟踪您的进度，并允许您与您的朋友竞争-经过验证的更有效的学习方法。3)机会-一旦你学会了核心技能，我们就会根据你的标准为你匹配工作和机会。我们的解决方案基于数百万个职位和上市公司简介的数据，了解市场上每个职位所需的技能，并找到帮助人们获得这些技能的最佳策划内容。该项目将进行具有挑战性的研究，以扩展我们的技术，以便在给定职称或职业目标、地点或行业的情况下，列出该特定地点和行业目标所需的技能，并输出获得这些技能的推荐学习路径。与早期采用者合作伙伴和学习专业人员合作，学习路径将根据用户在入职期间和在我们现有的学习旅程中进行的一系列评估进一步个性化/调整。

Skill shortages are a major issue in the UK and arise because there are not enough people with particular skills to meet demand. The Open University estimates that skill shortages cost the UK £2bn a year in higher salaries, recruitment costs and temporary staffing bills. They can also significantly hamper growth. According to OECD research, the UK could boost its productivity by 5 per cent if it reduced the level of skill mismatch to OECD best practice levels.The whole world is looking for alternative, efficient and affordable education. Bill Gates summarised the problem nicely: "I read more than my share of textbooks," Gates says. "But it's a pretty limited way to learn something. Even the best text can't figure out which concepts you understand and which ones you need more help with." Software can be used to create a much more dynamic learning experience.Our aim at Knowledge Officer is to create the shortest and most efficient path to employment and career progression. Our e-learning platform technology builds a personalised learning path, helping the user to learn with purpose to achieve their career goals. We use a three-step process 1) Skills - artificial intelligence analyses job descriptions from the best companies in the world to pick out the most common and important skills. 2) Learning - we source the highest quality learning materials from around the web, create challenges, track your progress and allow you to compete with your friends - proven ways to learn more effectively. 3) Opportunities - once you've learned core skills, we'll match you with jobs and opportunities based on your criteria.Our solution understands the skills required for each job title on the market based on data from millions of job posts and public company profiles and finds the best-curated content that helps people gain those skills.This project will conduct challenging research to extend our technology so that given a job title or a career goal, and a location or industry, will list the required skills for the goal in this specific location and industry and also output a recommended learning path to get those skills. Working with early adopter partners, and learning professionals, the learning path will be further personalised/tuned based on a series of assessments the user undertakes during onboarding and while going through our existing learning journey.