Planet Employability

1. An education that’s out of this world!

2. History
 Planet Employability is a project initiated by small grant
from the Higher Education Funding Council for England
(HEFCE) through their UnLtd social catalyst award.
 The project will develop a platform for a coherent social
enterprise that will meet the challenges associated with
modern society and the potential of virtual worlds.

3. The Problem
• Two fold focus education market and labour market
• Inflexibility education system (EM)
• Ineffective recording of employability and enterprise skills
(EM)
• Excessive jobs applicants – sending lots of poor CVs (LM)
• Lack of entry level opportunties (LM)
• Enhance recruitment and employment market efficiencies
(LM)

4. Our Solution
• Gamification and formalisation of enterprise and employability
skills
• Career development and work experience
• Effective recording of enterprise and employability skills
• Seamless interface between skills development and world of work
• Real world based activities via in-world missions
• Adress labour market failures

5. What must you demonstrate ?
 Teamwork
 Entrepreneurship
 Problem Solving
 Tactical Planning
 IT
 Language

6. Mission Categories
• Self-management and taking responsibility
• Working effectively with other people
• Business and customer awareness
• Decision-making and Problem-solving
• Initiative and enterprise
• Communication and Literacy
• Numeracy
• Using ICT

7. Youth Employability Skills
(YES) Passport
 The YES Passport will be the key to accessing Planet Employability
 http://www.platformtwenty.co.uk/testserver/YES/
 On arrival at the Planet Employability students will be given ‘assignments’
developed through the ‘Create Your Own Job’ programme at CIME (see
examples)
 All assignments will be linked to real world opportunities

8. YES Passport Skills
 Self-Management & Taking
Responsibility
 Working effectively with other
people
 Business & Customer
Awareness
 Decision Making & Problem
Solving
 Initiative & Enterprise
 Communication & Literacy
 Numeracy
 Using IT

9. Sustainability
• Model is built on cost recovery ethos
• Initial ´free´basic packages
• Basic packages has YES passport and 8 missions and 2 Enterprise mission/quest (one
product and one service enterprise development)
• Advanced packages sold on ´Buy One Donate One Free´ to to a partner in the
developing world
• Extra missions cost €1 for skills missions and €5 for enterprise missions
• 2000 initial on-line contracts ($1-$3) for students to generate small on-line incomes
• Sponsorships and commercial partnerships

10. Planet Employability
‘There’s a cultural premise that work and play are an
inherent dichotomy’
Nick Yee, The Labour of Fun.

11. “They didn’t realize that this was the future” – John
‘Neverdie’ Jacobs
We Do

12. Thank you