Providing digital solutions to meet the skills gaps to help local businesses grow and promote regional economic growth
An employment and skills platform that helps local authorities empower their residents to understand the job market, apprenticeships, courses and LMI in their local area.
What is SignedUp Skills?
SignedUp Skills is an employment and skills platform that enables economic regions to empower residents to help them make informed career decisions.
There is such an overwhelming amount of information online, SignedUp Skills works to filter out all the noise. By harnessing the power of the latest technology and data, useful and relevant economic opportunities are made easy to search, save and interact with.
SignedUp Skills is a very cost-effective technology platform that enables economic regions to empower their residents with an improved understanding of the local labour market. It enables our customers to display the relevant economic opportunities in the context of their employment and skills priorities.
SignedUp Skills is listed on the G-Cloud framework.
SignedUp Highlights
Accessibility
Developed in line with, and maintains, level AA of the WCAG 2.1 criteria
Single Search
Enables users to search across multiple data feeds in one activity rather than having to visit multiple other sites
Focus on Key Sectors
Showcase priority sectors with local LMI
Comprehensive Careers Directory
Embedded careers directory that uses UK Standard Occupational Classification data including local jobs, apprenticeships and courses
Single SignedUp Skills Account
All implementations use a single account that allows users to save and interact with opportunities across multiple locations
CMS & Reporting
Full content control of the portal using the Umbraco content management system and access to a range of embedded analytical tools
Why is there a regional focus?
To allow Local Authorities to tailor their portal to their economic region ensuring the opportunities, information and help are relevant to showcasing their best. Be it agri-tech, film and media, life sciences or digital AI, by improving the accessibility of local opportunities and displaying them in a local context, we increase the chances that people will find the opportunities and information they need to thrive.
Lewis Veale, Solution Architect, PDMS explains more: 'SignedUp Skills comprises a set of independent but interoperating microservices which collectively deliver the functionality. The architectural pattern provides greater flexibility enabling regions to make it their own without having to build a bespoke solution. Each service can be scaled up individually and can follow its own development path, independent of the other services, providing the public interfaces remain unchanged.'
Meet our SignedUp clients
SignedUp Skills hosting
Neal Kelly, Chief Information Officer
“When considering the overall SignedUp Skills solution it was obvious that it would need best of breed hosting. Hosted across geographically independent data centres, and making use of a hybrid cloud architecture, we have been able to build an environment for the SignedUp Skills platform that provides high availability, flexible capacity and reactive performance. The infrastructural design allows for on the fly maintenance, rolling updates, and genuine flexibility for the content administrators. With several years’ worth of SignedUp Skills hosting now under our belt, we’ve very proud of the service we’ve been able to deliver for so many end-users.”
