Visual representation of the mismatch between industry skills demand and higher education skills supply.

Aligning the skills addressed by higher education to the demands of industry is an ongoing challenge. This paper describes the rationale for developing and using a visualization application to highlight the skills demand and skills supply mismatch between work-integrated learning (WIL) stakeholders. The objective was to develop a minimal viable product (MVP) to be utilized as a visualization application. Visualization allows for the data to be structured in an organized way for comparison and pattern identification. Participatory action research informed the development of a MVP, referred to as a skills hub. This paper reports how the skills hub visualizes the skills mismatch through collaboration between participating higher education institutions, a multi-national financial institution, skills assessment partner, and a consulting partner. The research result is that WIL stakeholders benefit from the skills hub as an application that provides a visualization process to translate skills shared in the process of knowledge exchange. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]