Have Information and Communication Technologies and the Internet really changed employability, job search and selection and recruitment processes?

Raising unemployment levels across Europe co-exist with important levels of uncovered vacancies, in particular in the ICT sector. At the same time, Information and Communication technologies (ICTs) have become an ever more important feature of work, education and learning and social participation, and estimates point at 85% of jobs that will require some sort of ICT skills in 2020. This article presents the key findings of a literature review, designed to examine the concept of employability, its dimensions and the factors which affect it, and to provide evidence on how ICT contributes to employability, in particular for job seekers, employers and labour market intermediaries.JRC.J.3-Information Societ