Chile Skills Certification Created National Action
Channel: World Bank Group Jobs
Date: 2012-08-16

Hernan Araneda of Fundacion Chile's Center for Innovation in Human Capital, outlines the biggest challenge his country faced in setting up a job skills certification system.

Araneda says 15 sectors of Chile's economy participated in the skills certification system, creating a capability that the country needed to become more efficient. The program assessed and certified competencies and developed standards for 30,000 workers.

Based on this experiment, Chile passed legislation to set up a national board of institution. This board brings together government with industry and union representatives, and works to identify sustainable funding sources for further job skill standards development and certification.