The standards that ground skaills
skaills is built on open occupational and competency standards. We credit every source explicitly, mark every derived output, and never claim official status for our adaptations.
Currently integrated
Sources actively powering the platform today.
ESCO — European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations
European Commission · v1.2.1 (CSV bundle, en/es/fr/pt)
Mandatory acknowledgement
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
License
Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents. Free to use including for commercial purposes, subject to acknowledgement and modification disclosure.
How skaills uses it
Occupation descriptors, skill and competence taxonomy, multilingual labels, and as the crosswalk layer between ISCO-08 and skill clusters surfaced in CV evaluation, job profiles, the Career Path Navigator, and the Skills Adjacency Map.
ISCO-08 — International Standard Classification of Occupations
International Labour Organization (ILO).
How skaills uses it
Baseline occupation taxonomy across the platform — profile sectors, role tagging, certificate metadata, and the public job board are all ISCO-08 grounded.
License
© International Labour Organization. Used with attribution.
Planned integrations
Sources scheduled for the 2026 Q3–Q4 external-standards sprint. Each entry will get the same attribution treatment as ESCO and ISCO once ingested.
O*NET
US Department of Labor occupational database. Public domain / CC-BY for most files. Bridge to SOC, and the classification used by the Anthropic Labor Market Impacts research. Unlocks the Skills Adjacency Map.
SFIA
Skills Framework for the Information Age. 7-level capability matrix for IT and digital skills. Reference-only use pending license confirmation.
DigComp 2.2
EU digital competence framework for citizens. Will anchor the digital-readiness dimension of the AI-Readiness Assessment.
GDPval
Benchmark for measuring real-world economic value of AI on professional tasks. Used to calibrate the Mechanical-Layer automation outlook in the Org Transformation Plan.
OSWorld
Benchmark for AI agents performing real computer tasks. Reference dataset for the Manager AI Co-pilot capability boundaries.
Pedagogical and competency frameworks
Education-sector evaluations are built on these public frameworks. Alignment is not certification.
This evaluation follows the ISCO-08 and ESCO classifications and is aligned with and informed by the OECD Teaching Compass (2025) and the UW CEL 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning™ framework (2012). Alignment is not certification: these organisations have not reviewed, accredited or endorsed this evaluation.
OECD Teaching Compass (2025)
OECD · 2025
The education competencies assessed here are informed by and aligned with the OECD Teaching Compass (2025). The Compass is a guiding framework, not a checklist, and it does not certify, accredit or endorse this evaluation.
Dimension and element names in Spanish, French and Portuguese are skaills' own working translations, not official translations of the framework.
skaills is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by the OECD. The OECD Teaching Compass is one of several references and bodies of good practice that informed the design of our educator assessments; alignment is not certification.
- Citation:
- OECD (2025), OECD Teaching Compass: Reimagining Teachers as Agents of Curriculum Change, OECD Education Working Papers No. 123, https://doi.org/10.1787/8297a24a-en
- Licence:
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This is an adaptation of an original work by the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed in this adaptation should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its Member countries.
5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning™ (UW CEL)
University of Washington, Center for Educational Leadership · 2012 · Instructional Framework version 4.5
Classroom-practice competencies are informed by the 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning™ framework (UW CEL, version 4.5). UW CEL does not certify, accredit or endorse this evaluation.
Where UW CEL 5D™ and the OECD Teaching Compass differ, the OECD Teaching Compass (2025) governs.
Dimension and element names in Spanish, French and Portuguese are skaills' own working translations, not official translations of the framework.
5D™ and 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning™ are trademarks of the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership. skaills is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by UW CEL. The framework is one of several references and bodies of good practice that informed the design of our educator assessments; alignment is not certification.
- Citation:
- University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership, 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning™, Instructional Framework version 4.5. https://k-12leadership.org/tools/5-dimensions-of-teaching-and-learning/
- Licence:
- Copyright ©2012 University of Washington, Center for Educational Leadership. "5D", "5 DIMENSIONS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING" and other logos/identifiers are trademarks of the University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership.
Modifications and derived data
Per ESCO obligation #2 (and applied defensively to every source), we mark any modified, translated, or AI-derived output as such. Modifications skaills routinely makes:
- Translation of source labels into the three platform languages when an upstream language file is not available.
- AI-generated summaries, descriptors, or explanations that paraphrase or expand on the original source text.
- Derived crosswalks between standards (e.g. ISCO ↔ ESCO ↔ O*NET) computed by skaills.
- Recomputed adjacency scores, similarity matrices, or skill-cluster groupings.
- Annotations layered on top of source taxonomy entries (sector tags, level mapping, internal notes).
About this data
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
Content shown here has been modified or derived from the original ESCO data (translation, AI summary, computed crosswalk, etc.).
Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU. Data sources & licensing
No warranty
The European Commission, the International Labour Organization, the US Department of Labor and every other upstream source disclaim accuracy, currency, and completeness of their datasets. skaills cannot and does not claim that its derived outputs are "official" versions of any source. Use of skaills outputs is at your own risk and should be reviewed against the authoritative source before any legally binding decision.