Social change and economic development have led the professional world towards a multiple paradigm shift: hard skills are not enough any more - social skills make the difference.

Young people have to consider this shift when looking for a job or an apprenticeship. Recruiters are not only evaluating their hard skills anymore but are also expecting extraordinary performance when it comes to social skills.

This is why the Ursulinen, a well-known school in Graz, offers their pupils the possibility to do the ECo-C Sken certification. „With the ECo-C Sken certification we create an ideal situation for our pupils to enter the job market and are increasing their chances for their personal career.", says teacher Harald Pinkl. „Our pupils did some practice at companies and the feedback of the companies was more than positive: Our students distinguished through their brilliant social skills. For me this feedback confirms that we walk the right way with the ECo-C Sken certification.", says Walter Färber, principal of the school.

And the pupils of the OK-class liked the ECo-C Sken certification. With an amazing amount of dedication and committment they participated on their ECo-C classes and finally they can be proud of their extraordinary results of their ECo-C exams. Inmidst of the last hectic weeks before the summer holidays they did their ECo-C Sken exams and the pass-rate is 100%. 

We from the ECo-C Europe Team congratulate all pupils from the OK-class to this high-level performance and wish great summer holidays!