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The GiLE Journal of Skills Development

The GiLE Journal of Skills Development (GJSD) is a scientific journal on competence development.

It was established by the GiLE Foundation as an open-access publication to promote research and ongoing dialogue relating to soft skills training and lifelong learning.

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Find out more about the OJS platform and GJSD

  • Open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed
  • A meeting point for dialogue between industry and academia. 
  • Encourages submissions from all disciplines & from everyone whose work relates to competence development. All disciplines are welcomed.
  • The the three focus areas of GJSD are Career Planning, Character Building, and Communication Skills.

Additional benefits from publishing at GJSD

  • No APC
  • CC BY 4.0 license
  • Early career researcher and young professionals may get additional support
  • Support for advocacy on skills development (Food for Thought section, Policy and Social Challenges section)
  • Rapid publication
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GJSD welcomes traditional and new formats:

1

Standard academic papers

Authors from any relevant discipline can submit a scientific research paper.

2

Early-Career Researchers

Papers written by emerging, Early-Career Researchers and young industry professionals.

3

Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)

Papers written by Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and leaders from industries.

4

Food for Thought Papers

Authors with an academic or a non-academic background may all contribute.

5

Policy and Social Challenges Papers

Submissions to identify and discuss an existing policy or social challenge are welcome.

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GiLE Journal Offers:

GJSD issues published

Free publication

CC BY 4.0 license.

 There is no article processing charge (APC).

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Easy submission

We provide a submission checklist and a tutorial video to help you to submit your article through our OJS platform.

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Conference participation

We organise conferences to provide a platform for disseminating research findings and exchanging contemporary knowledge.

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Most frequent questions and answers about submission

Yes. Read through the GJSD Author’s Guide before submitting. Your manuscript has to adhere to the criteria and stylistic requirements detailed in the guide.

Use the GJSD manuscript template for final submission. You will find a detailed description in the manuscript submission Template.

First Log in/Register on the gjsd.gile-edu.org website. Click on the Submit tab and select Make a new submission. You will be taken to Step 1 of a 5-Step process to upload and describe your submission. You might want to watch this  short tutorial video.

GJSD welcomes research papers related to the three core focus areas of the GiLE Foundation: Career Planning, Character Building, and Communication Skills. Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodology papers, book reviews and review articles, data-based essays and case studies may all be accepted.

Although a scientific journal, GJSD also features ‘Food for Thought’ and a ‘Policy and Social Challenges’ sections where academics and those with a non-academic background may contribute to dialogue with our readership. 

We provide a free online publication opportunity for all authors. There is no article processing charge (APC).

 

All research articles published in this journal are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download and share. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license and signed Open Access Agreement, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 

Yes. GJSD is presented in the following scientometric databases, repositories an search engines: Europub, Publons, Google Scholar. All the articles will be uploaded to public interface of MTMT, operated by the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences by the Publisher. 

Publication opportunity

Call for Papers

will be open again from April 2023

The GiLE Journal of Skills Development (GJSD) invites authors to submit research articles for its Volume 3 Issue 2.

A detailed description is available here ⇒

Call for Pares GJSD

Volume 2. Issue No. 1. is published

The GJSD was established in 2021. Since its inception, the Journal aspires to impact its target audience – authors and readers – and to provide a medium and a knowledge hub for the dissemination of research results in the field of personal, transferrable skills, a complex set of personal characteristics, with a particular focus on young people’s skill needs, the challenges they face, and youth employability.

We believe that removing barriers for academics, practitioners, and readers helps us to create and disseminate valuable knowledge. We are grateful to the authors whose views created the unique collection of insights in Volume 2 Issue 1 (2022) of the journal.

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  • Design accessible web user interfaces (UI), enhance platforms with custom style sheets.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

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  • Experience in using common CMS systems, like WordPress and Drupal.
  • Comfortable with CSS and preferably has a basic understanding of popular web technologies and frameworks.
  • High level understanding of web design concepts, UI principles
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The role consists of:

  • Keep website fully functional at all times, inform colleagues of any expected downtime.
  • Deploy and update WordPress ecosystem components.
  • Make sure the site’s user interface is easily accessible for most users.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Thrives in the WordPress ecosystem, is aware of new trends and has a good command of the most popular web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript);
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The following roles are currently available:

The role consists of:

  • Manage pre-event planning of events, including assisting with the promotions, logistics, and general management of events, workshops and training courses.
  • Liaise with (strategic) partners, youth networks and key contact persons where relevant.
  • Manage feedback loops and produce post-event evaluations and content to inform future events.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • High level of organisational skills
  • Attention to detail;
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills,
  • Time-management skills
  • Flexible, target-driven, and proactive.

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  • Launch and coordinate fundraising campaigns to support the projects and activities of the organisation.
  • Further develop an internal guideline document that briefly summarises our various types of fundraising techniques.
  • Perform risk management to minimize any risks related to fundraising.
  • Continuously explore creative ways to raise funds, including continuously searching
    for potential donors or fundraising partners.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Excellent communication and writing skills,
  • Excellent way of expressing ones thoughts, and having persuasive tactics.
  • Good written and research skills to prepare compelling concept notes to help generate funds.

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  • Producing post-event evaluations and feedback to inform future events.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • High level of organisational skills
  • Attention to detail;
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills,
  • Time-management skills
  • Flexible, target-driven, and proactive.

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The role consists of:

  • Produce written or verbal content that is clear and persuasive for our target audience for various platforms in a way that is consistent with our brand strategy and voice (articles, blogs, podcasts, newsletter texts, etc.).

  • Assist with the development of creative ideas and concepts for advertising, social
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  • Help drive brand consistency across all communication platforms

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Qualifications: No formal qualifications required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Experience in copywriting for multiple social media campaigns.
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  • High attention to details.
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  • Designing unique marketing material that’s aligned with the creative direction and overall brand of the foundation and its projects.
  • Reviewing final layouts and suggesting improvements where required.
  • Ensure that the overall branding and artwork is maintained appropriately and consistently across all platforms and for all marketing and promotion material.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Demonstrable design experience across various platforms with design applications, software and technologies, such as Canva, Quark Xpress, InDesign or Illustrator, and photo-editing software such as Photoshop.
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  • Proof-read and correct documents and texts for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors
  • Verify factual correctness of information (e.g. dates and statistics).
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Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Familiarity with the proofreading techniques and tools;
  • Attention to details;

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  • Edit professional videos that are creative, engaging, and appropriately designed for our target audience.
  • Continuously discover and implement new editing technologies and industry’s best practices to maximize efficiency.

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications required, however, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • solid experience with digital technology and editing software packages.
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Academia & Publications

The following roles are currently available:

The role consists of:

  • Support the functions of the Editorial Team to
    fulfill the publication activities of the journal.
  • Taking actions on the OJS platform in line with the Publication Process Guide.
  • Checking the progress of submitted manuscripts through the Article Selection Process, incl. First Check, Reviewing, and Second Check.
  • Liaising with authors and reviewers as required (while adhering to the double-blind
    peer-review system) to ensure that the publication process is effective and efficient.
  • Promoting the journal and encouraging colleagues/students to submit high-quality articles.

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: Degree certificate and minimum 3-years of experience in research and publishing academic papers.

Skills and requirements:

  • Experience in academic writing.
  • Ability to meet the time demands of the position is required.
  • Excellent organizational, time-management skills, interpersonal and communication skills.

The role consists of:

  • Assist with (re)developing a visual template for journal articles based on the
    suggestions of the Editor-in-Chief, Managing Editor and Associate Editor.
  • Performing typesetting and layout editing in accordance with the GJSD Publishing
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  • Performing final plagiarism check (in collaboration with the Associate Editor).

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Skills and requirements:

  • Experience with publications.
  • A strong attention to detail.
  • Proficiency in typesetting and layout editing of digital-first documents.
  • Ability to visualize the final product during the design process.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

The role consists of:

  • Assisting with the publication of the journal issues (creating the articles’ landing pages and the current Issues in the OJS system);
  • Ensuring that all metadata are correct, the Galleys are prepared, and the journal can be cited in a standard format directly from OJS;
  • Checking authors names, affiliations, ORC IDs;
  • Performing a final check of all articles, Galleys and landing pages before publishing, in collaboration with the Managing Editor and the Technical Editor;

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements:

  • Experience with publications.
  • A strong attention to detail.
  • Proficiency in typesetting and layout editing of digital-first documents.
  • Ability to visualize the final product during the design process.

The role consists of:

  • Ensuring that the submitted manuscripts are readable, have a logical flow, and that
    the author’s intended meaning is clear.
  • Proof-reading assigned manuscripts, editing manuscript content directly to improve readability and correct English language errors for UK English.
  • Ensuring that the manuscript is free from inconsistencies (textual and numerical), errors of spelling, syntax, grammar and punctuation.
  • Ensuring that manuscripts are consistent in presentation, style and content
    (including APA style reference formatting).

 

Location: This role can be done in Budapest (Hungary) or remotely, from anywhere in the world.

Qualifications: No formal qualifications are required. However, the candidate should have previous demonstrable experience.

Skills and requirements: Experience in academic writing.