This paper will present the MySkills platform, a unique digital platform launched by Dublin City University (DCU), which enables students to capture and evidence their transversal skills in a rigorous and tranparent way, helping them to identify, articulate and showcase their skills, while simultaneously helping employers to make more informed, evidence-based recuitment decisions. MySkills is integrated with DCU's learning management system and underpinned by a proprietary transversal skills framework that has been designed, developed and implemented over a five year period.

The MySkills platofrm not only captures the results of the formal assessment of students' transversal skills within their programme of study, it also recognises the value of extracurricular learning by allowing students to create and record experiences and then link these with the development of specific skills. Each skill in operationalised into component parts and has a universal four-level rubric to optimise for consistency and transparecny across the university. This in turn means that students' specific level of competence in any skill they choose to evidence is clearly shown, including whether or not the attached rating is DCU-verified or self-reported.

The paper will also explore the multiple internal and external stakeholders involved in their process and the importance of creating a culture of authentic collaboration in order to implement major innovations in teaching and learning within any higher education institution.