Profilum is a private company from Moscow (Russia) that provides innovative digital tools for assessment and development of human capital with the focus on skills for the digital economy.

The company’s social mission is to help individuals, educational organizations, and governments on all levels increase people’s quality of life and the overall sustainability of the society.

While no community can be truly sustainable without a flexible education system that reflects the needs of the market, as well as without the youth understanding which career path suits them the best, Profilum has developed digital tools that contribute to the solution of both these tasks.

The company provides parents, schools, and local authorities with a set of online and offline innovative services. The cornerstone of them are digital tools and methodologies for the study of individual’s personality (such as interactive psychometric tests), and of labor and education markets (including big data and in-depth analytics). As data on the career and educational opportunities and risks are matched with teenagers’ predispositions, values, passions and skills, they receive tailored advice on further steps optimal for their self-development. This includes not only specific recommendations, but also decision-making support from tutors and industry experts.

https://profilum.ru

• Eastern Europe

• Youth

Digital tools developed by Profilum can be applied both on local and national level, by various kind of organizations and users. These tools have a great potential for replicability as they are adaptive, intuitive, and can be used by anyone interested in further education and career improvement.

"Profilum provides innovative career counseling methodologies and IT solutions for teenagers that help them make informed educational and career choices. Through the years, Profilum helped more than 700,000 teenagers discover new educational opportunities and embark on their career journeys, and supported them along the way by providing individual recommendations, expert guidance and tailored educational courses. For instance, the innovative educational course “Career literacy” (for the grades 8 and 9) helps schoolchildren overcome such difficulties as problems with the choice of education, difficulties with the conscious choice of education track and exams, and low educational motivation (due to the lack of understanding of how studying at school is related to their own future). Upon finishing the course, schoolchildren form their own understanding of the modern world of education and professions, acquire tools that help them make decisions about the future and make a conscious choice of their educational and professional trajectory, as well as experience increased educational motivation and understanding of the importance of school education. “Profilum” is the key technological partner of the all-Russian educational projects “Ticket to the future” and “Digital professions”, run by a network of private companies and NGOs. These projects operate on the federal scale in the framework the national project “Education” and unite numerous actors, primarily schools and universities. The key goal of the projects is to help everyone acquire ICT skills and find a place in the digital economy by providing them with all types of support. An essential part of each project is comprising an individual profile of an applicant, which helps to define applicant’s weak and strong points and choose the educational courses that best suit applicant’s skills, goals and mindset. Profilum provides the digital platform for profiling, as well as support of its experts – tutors, consultants and methodologists."