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SKILLS FORWARD kicks off in Zagreb with four partner countries
20 May 2026 · 3 min read
Workforce intelligence & development
Established 2009We read the labour market, then build the workforce it needs.
Anticipate
Read the labour market
Real-time vacancies, wages and skills signals stream in from across the region.
Scene 1 of 10: Read the labour market. Real-time vacancies, wages and skills signals stream in from across the region.
CEDEX joins two things that usually sit apart: AI-powered labour-market analysis, and the consulting work that turns those findings into people in the right jobs — delivered region by region, with local partners.
The workforce cycle
Ten stages. One continuous service.
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01AnticipateLabour Market & Skills Intelligence
AI-powered labour-market analysis that helps organisations understand current and future workforce needs. This is our anchor service and a key differentiator, as few HR consultancies combine workforce consulting with advanced labour-market intelligence.
- Job-opening, vacancy and skills-demand analytics
- Employer and sector surveys
- Occupational and competency profiling
- ESCO and EQF mapping
- Skills-gap analysis
- Labour-market forecasting and interactive dashboards
Smart Specialisation
We build workforce strategy around each region’s S3 priorities.
Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) tell a region where its competitive edge lies. We translate those priorities into concrete skills demand — mapping the occupations, qualifications and training pathways a region needs to turn its specialisation into jobs.
- Align skills supply with regional S3 priority domains
- Map emerging occupations to ESCO and EQF levels
- Turn innovation priorities into training and reskilling pathways
Knowledge Triangle
Education, research and business, working as one system.
Real impact happens where higher education, research and industry meet. We design programmes that close the loop — feeding research into curricula, curricula into enterprise, and enterprise needs back into what gets taught.
Education
Curricula, VET reform and micro-credentials tied to real demand.
Research
Labour-market intelligence and applied studies that inform practice.
Business
Employer engagement, work-based learning and SME growth.
How CEDEX turns labour-market data into workforce strategy
Anticipate
Read the labour market
Real-time vacancies, wages and skills signals stream in from across the region.
Scene 1 of 10: Read the labour market. Real-time vacancies, wages and skills signals stream in from across the region.
A walk-through of our work from live vacancy analysis to people in the right jobs.
Local delivery
Global method, delivered by local partners.
We never parachute in. Every assignment runs with trusted partners on the ground — chambers, agencies, universities and specialist firms who know the region, the language and the institutions. That is how technical assistance turns into lasting local capacity. We work in the open, through an Open Innovation approach that brings employers, public bodies and training providers around the same table. Ideas, data and results are shared across the network, so every partner can build on what works rather than starting from scratch. The outcome is a living ecosystem that keeps solving local labour-market challenges long after our contract ends.
Impactful Partnerships with
2009
established, working across Europe
10
stages, anticipate to account
10
service lines
8+
countries of delivery
Who we work with
Four audiences, one integrated method.
Employers
Find the people you cannot find, keep the people you have, and understand the shortages coming for your sector before they arrive.
Public institutions
Labour-market evidence, activation and reintegration programmes, and technical assistance for employment and VET reform.
Education & VET providers
Occupational profiling, curriculum relevance, validation of prior learning, micro-credentials and work-based learning placements.
Individuals
Career guidance, competence assessment, mobility experiences and structured support through every professional transition.
News & insights
Project news, outputs, open calls and analysis.
Track record
Assignments for the European Union, UNDP, UN-Habitat, national and local authorities, chambers of commerce and private clients.
Delivered across Croatia, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania, Iran and the wider South-East European region — in technical assistance, capacity building, VET reform, SME development, local governance and social inclusion.
Let's build the workforce your region needs.
Tell us about the labour-market challenge in front of you — we will show you how we would read it and act on it.