The SayIT partnership has already developed the Soft Skills Curriculum for IT Professionals. The curriculum is a proposal of holistic approach towards upskilling IT professionals in the area of soft skills and can be used by VET institutions, regulatory bodies and relevant stakeholders. The first project result is characterized by a modular, competence-based framework enhanced by subsets of defined learning outcomes. The Curriculum is also based on a four-phase model, including planning, implementation, evaluation, and review, in accordance with the European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training framework. The Curriculum covers five main thematic blocks, i.e., Communication skills, Problem-solving skills, Teamwork skills, Organisational skills and Interpersonal skills.

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Unconscious cultural preconceptions and stereotyping in general towards skilled and suitable potential candidates with a migrant background can make recruitment of suitable candidates and integration into daily work processes of the migrant workforce very difficult, with adverse consequences for companies, the workforce as well as for the broader society as a whole.

With well-trained management and recruitment staff who are aware about unconscious bias and able to deal with it, SMEs will be able to participate more successfully in the War for Talents and to recruit suitable personnel.

By providing tools enabling understanding, reflection and strategies to manage cultural unconscious bias in the workplace, the CUB@Work project contributes to social inclusion and non-discrimination in the workplace.

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