Trinity researchers begin three-year project on career development

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2 February 2016

A team from Trinity College Dublin’s Learnovate Centre has just announced a €3 million research project which will investigate career development. The three-year project, Develop, is being funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 initiative.

The project aims to create a personalised learning environment for career development.

Previous research has found that employees who are actively developing their careers receive the least career guidance. Employees are also facing increased working lives and longer careers with a greater emphasis on adaptability. Develop will focus on areas such as collaboration, leadership, and developing social capital.
Develop will be evaluated and validated through two diverse use cases: IBM in ICT and BNY Mellon in financial services, which comprise a combined global workforce of 480,000.

Employers will also benefit from the project as a way of promoting staff retention and reducing costs associated with the hiring process.

Learnovate Centre director Martyn Farrows spoke with TechRadio last year. Hear the interview below.