Bell Time Magazine Autumn/Winter 2015 | Page 12

Let Europass showcase your skills Europass is an EU wide service working to make sure that your skills, abilities and qualifications are understood by education and training providers and employers at home and across Europe. Europass is also an effective on-line career management system, helping you to store personal records systematically. Europass has five key tools that provide information according to a clear template that has been agreed across the EU: Europass CV: helps you showcase your skills and achievements. The CV can be uploaded to Europe wide job-search engines and is widely used by employers for recruitment purposes. It is one of the most popular CV templates in the world- almost 35,000 CVS are created by individual users daily! Europass Diploma Supplement: higher education institutions provide this supplementary information to graduates, personalised to the particular programme of learning that you followed and the award you achieved Europass Certificate Supplement: explains your vocational qualification and is available online to download. It is issued by QQI for major, supplemental and special purpose awards at levels 5 and 6 Europass Mobility: this document is a formal record outlining learning achieved through your experiences in wor