Easy Talent Digital Competence & Learning ability Test(DCAL)

Testing for Core Skills

To hire those who possess the necessary digital competence and ability to learn, talent managers will require putting the job applicants through EasyTalent Digital Competence and Learning Ability (DCAL) Test.

EasyTalent DCAL is an aggregation of two assessments:

Digital Competence Test (which is based on the EU Digital Competence Framework)
Ability to Learn Test (which is based on the Five Dimensional Curiosity Scale)

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EasyTalent Digital Competence &

Learning Ability Test (DCAL)

To hire those who possess the necessary digital competence and ability to learn, talent managers will require putting the job applicants through DCAL...

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Digital Competence

Digital Competence is the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are required by

Essential knowledge, skills and attitudes related to Digital Competence

Individuals should understand how digital technologies can support communication

EasyTalent Digital Competence Test

EasyTalent Digital Competence Test (DC Test) is based on the EU Digital Competence

Employees require Learning ability

To reduce the skills gap, companies will have to either train and prepare their employees, or they will need to persuade their employees

Curiosity quotient and Ability to Learn

Learning cannot happen without the yearning or the curiosity to know; and

EasyTalent Ability to Learn Test (AL Test)

Easytalent uses the five dimensional curiosity scale (5DC) to assess the individual's CQ

Digital Competence

Digital Competence is the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are required by employees when using digital tools and technologies to:

perform workplace tasks and activities
solve problems
communicate
manage information
collaborate
create and share content and
protect information and identities

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Essential knowledge, skills and attitudes

related to Digital Competence

Individuals should understand how digital technologies can support communication, creativity and innovation, and be aware of their opportunities, limitations, effects and risks.
They should understand the general principles, mechanisms and logic underlying evolving digital technologies and know the basic function and use of different devices, software, and networks.
Individuals should take a critical approach to the validity, reliability and impact of information and data made available by digital means and be aware of the legal and ethical principles involved in engaging with digital technologies.
Individuals should be able to use digital technologies to support their active citizenship and social inclusion, collaboration with others, and creativity towards personal, social or commercial goals.
Skills include the ability to use, access, filter, evaluate, create, program and share digital content. Individuals should be able to manage and protect information, content, data, and digital identities, as well as recognise and effectively engage with software, devices, artificial intelligence or robots.
Individuals require a curious and forward-looking attitude to continually learn new digital tools and technologies and adapt to digital advances

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Digital Competence Test

EasyTalent Digital Competence (DC) Test is based on the EU Digital Competence Framework in which there are 21 individual competences grouped into five competence areas. The DC Test also includes awareness of Digital Technologies and Digital Law in the workplace.

Information and Data Literacy
Communication and Collaboration
Digital Content Creation
Safety, and
Problem solving
Digital technologies in the workplace

Digital Competence Areas

Information and Data Literacy

Browsing, searching & filtering data
Evaluating data, information & digital content
Managing data, information & digital content

Communication & Collaboration

Interacting through digital technologies
Sharing through digital technologies
Netiquette
Managing digital identity
Collaborating through digital technologies
Engaging in citizenship through digital technologies

Digital Content Creation

Developing digital content
Integrating and re-elaborating digital content
Copyright and Licences
Programming

Safety

Protecting devices
Protecting personal data and privacy
Protecting health and well-being
Protecting the environment

Problem Solving

Solving technical problems
Creatively using digital technologies
Identifying needs and tech responses
Identifying digital competence gaps

Digital technologies & Digital Law

in the workplace

Digital technologies (AI/ML, Cloud, Mobile, 5G, Blockchain, IoT, Social Media, Bigdata, cybersecurity)
Digital Law (IT Act)

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Employees require Learning ability

To reduce the skills gap, companies will have to either train and prepare their employees, or they will need to persuade their employees to learn the required skills on their own.

As per World Economic Forum’s ‘Future of Jobs Report, 2018:

25% of the companies do not intend to conduct any training for their employees, and
66% companies would expect their employees to learn on their own

This puts the onus upon the employees to continually hone their skills and capabilities. They will have to proactively learn new digital tools and technical skills to prepare themselves to adapt to digital advances. If they don’t so this, they may find themselves becoming irrelevant in organizational environments.

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Curiosity Quotient and Ability to Learn

Learning cannot happen without the yearning or the curiosity to know; and a curious person is constantly willing to learn and improve.

Curiosity is thus indicative of an individual’s ability to learn.

Curiosity quotient

Curiosity quotient (CQ) of employees, which gives them the ability to learn, has become one of the most important soft skills required to stay relevant in organizational environments.

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EasyTalent Ability to Learn Test

Easytalent uses the five dimensional curiosity scale (5DC) to assess the individual's CQ and from that derive their ability to learn.

The Ability to Learn Test consists of a battery of statements, and the individual determines how closely each of them describes him/her.

From the responses, EasyTalent ascertains:

the degree of pleasure individuals derive in knowing new things and exploring new experiences (joyful exploration)
the efforts put in by them to plug any information gap or skills that exist in them (deprivation sensitivity)
the comfort they have in overcoming the anxiety of learning new things (stress tolerance)
their quest to know what others in the social environment are doing (social curiosity) and
the thrill they get in trying out novel and risky things (thrill seeking)

EasyTalent Ability to Learn Test uses its algorithms to analyze the five curiosity dimensions to determine the individual’s Ability to Learn score.