CareerScape

CareerScape


CareerScape is an initiative by the National Skills Council that brings together industry, education, and policymakers to explore how work is evolving and what this means for skills development in Malta.

Through structured engagement with different sectors of the economy, CareerScape creates space for open discussions on emerging workforce challenges, skills mismatches, and the future direction of Malta’s labour market.

By connecting perspectives from across the skills ecosystem, the initiative helps strengthen dialogue between those shaping education and those operating in the world of work.


Why CareerScape Matters 

Malta’s labour market continues to evolve rapidly. Technological advancement, economic shifts, and changing workforce expectations are transforming the way industries operate and the skills they require. At the same time, education and training systems are tasked with preparing learners and workers with skills that remain relevant in a changing environment.

CareerScape helps bridge these perspectives.

By creating a platform for structured dialogue between industry leaders, educators, practitioners, and policymakers, the initiative helps identify where expectations and realities may not fully align and where further collaboration may be needed.

These conversations contribute to a deeper understanding of Malta’s evolving skills landscape and support broader discussions on workforce development and future skills needs.


Objectives 

Identifying areas where skills mismatches or disconnects may exist across sectors

Facilitating discussions between industry, education, and policymakers

Exploring how sectors anticipate future workforce needs

Understanding how technological and economic change is shaping skills demand

Generating insights that support reflections on skills policy and workforce planning

Who We Engage With

CareerScape brings together stakeholders from across Malta’s skills ecosystem to ensure discussions reflect diverse perspectives and realities.

Participants typically include:

• Industry representatives and employers
• Education and training institutions
• Career guidance practitioners
• Government entities and policymakers
• Sector experts and professionals

This multi-stakeholder approach allows discussions to capture both strategic and practical insights from across the labour market.


Our Approach​

CareerScape follows a structured engagement cycle designed to capture perspectives from stakeholders and translate them into meaningful reflections on the skills landscape.


Reflect

Participants consider how their sector is evolving and identify emerging challenges, opportunities, and workforce developments.


Listen

Stakeholders share perspectives from their respective sectors, helping participants understand different realities across industries.


Discuss

Facilitated conversations explore areas where skills supply and labour market demand may not be fully aligned.

Analyse

Insights gathered from the discussions are reviewed to identify patterns, common themes, and sector-specific observations.

Recommendation

Where relevant, reflections from the discussions contribute to recommendations and inform broader conversations about skills development and workforce planning.

This structured approach ensures that CareerScape discussions move beyond dialogue and support a process for capturing meaningful sector insights.


From Dialogue to Insight

The insights gathered through CareerScape discussions contribute to ongoing reflections on Malta’s evolving skills landscape.

They support the National Skills Council in understanding emerging sector challenges and opportunities, helping inform stakeholder engagement, research, and broader conversations around workforce development. 


CareerScape Editions

CareerScape is organised annually, with each edition engaging different sectors of Malta’s economy.

Each edition provides an opportunity to explore sector-specific realities while contributing to a broader understanding of how the labour market is evolving.

Explore the different editions to learn more about the discussions held and the insights generated.

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CareerScape 2026

Aligning education, industry and policy for a future-ready workforce.

Building on the discussions held during CareerScape 2025, which brought together stakeholders from the Education and Training, Health and Social Care sectors, this year’s edition expands the conversation to ten additional sectors of the economy.

 

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CareerScape 2025

CareerScape 2025 marked the starting point of the National Skills Council’s exploration of the “Skills Disconnect”, the growing misalignment between the skills people possess and the skills increasingly required across Malta’s labour market.

 

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CareerScape 2024

CareerScape 2024 marked the launch of a new stakeholder engagement initiative by the National Skills Council designed to strengthen dialogue between education, industry, and policymakers around Malta’s evolving skills landscape.


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