Keep track of your development of professional competencies with a gamified mobile application

Abstract: The SkillMill project is an initiative co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The primary goal is to provide students who study abroad a way to keep track of the existence and development of their professional competencies. These competencies include skills like interacting with colleagues, how you solve problems, and how you plan your work. These competencies are highly sought after by employers, and according to some employers, many candidates lack the necessary professional competencies they need to be effective in the working environment. We provide the SkillMill project with a mobile application in which the target group, students, can keep a journal about transformative experiences. The created mobile application serves as a foundation for the SkillMill project to build upon further to allow users to identify, understand and verbalize their professional competencies. A usability test was used to evaluate the design of the application, which showed that the design works well.