Starter Kit. Idea 465 of 500. Cluster 24
Skill-certification bodies whose certificates employers abroad accept, because they test
The mechanism, from the book
The one thing. A country where people do not expect the rules to hold cannot build anything else, and proof can be manufactured by private people, one published record at a time.
The first step
Choose one skill in demand abroad, such as welding, electrical work or care, and ask two employers or recruitment agents abroad what test they would accept in place of their own. Write that test, run it for five candidates as a practical task, filmed and marked, and send the results to the employers. The proof is an employer who accepts the certificate and hires on it.
- Who pays first
- A worker going abroad whose local certificate is ignored, or an employer abroad paying a fee to hire without retesting from scratch.
- What leaves today
- Workers leave as unskilled labour because their certificates prove nothing abroad; a test employers trust sells their skill at its real price.
Ask first
- Tertiary and Vocational Education Commission. Ask how a skills test can become a recognised national qualification.
- Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment. Ask which skills employers abroad most often ask departing workers to prove.
Check before you spend
Confirm which test the employer abroad will accept in writing, that your assessors are qualified, and how a certificate can be checked by anyone.
Find out these three numbers
- What test would an employer abroad accept in place of its own?
- What would a worker pay to sit it?
- What does running one test for one candidate cost?
A comparison from the book
Japan. Chapter Sixteen
"Host the tests and the Japanese-standard training in Sri Lanka"
When the test abroad is taken here, the certificate here becomes worth having.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
From the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? by Dr Maheshika Halbeisen. The idea and the mechanism are the book's; this kit was written for the site.