Reveal Your Skills

There are skills in Finland. Let’s reveal your skills!

Reveal Your Skills is a mindset focusing on identifying skills and making them visible. The objective is to inspire and encourage people and communities to become aware of their skills and to boost discussion on the importance of identifying skills and competence.

SECLE was responsible for organising the Reveal Your Skills campaign week in 2022 and 2023. The campaign week gathered many different actors and participants around a shared message.

SECLE continues bringing up the theme of Reveal Your Skills in all its activities also after the campaign. Skills are valuable, no matter where they come from – be it from working life, everyday life, hobbies, free time, family life or education.

Join us in sharing your skills on social media with the hashtag #RevealYourSkills!

Give skills a chance #RevealYourSkills

Everyone learns new things throughout life. Most of adults’ learning takes place at work through working. People also learn new things through training, courses, hobbies, relationships and daily chores. It’s easy to carry on without noticing one’s one skills. According to SECLE’s interview study Mitä työikäiset ajattelevat jatkuvasta oppimisesta? (SECLE 2023), half of working age adults consider themselves to be in possession of skills they would like to make more use of in society.

In the Reveal Your Skills mindset, the focus is on the skills potential hiding in all of us. This potential can be taken into use through identifying skills. For example, skills acquired during free time can be employed also in working life. 

Identifying one’s own skills strengthens the idea of the self as an expert and learner, helps in applying skills in action and encourages also to learn new things. The key messages of the Reveal Your Skills theme are: 

• Skills are accumulated in various environments: working life, daily life, hobbies, free time, family life, education, training, courses, etc. Skills are valuable regardless of where they emerge from!
• We all have various skills and when we recognise them, we can find uses for them.
• Skills are valuable in themselves and recognising them and making them visible is significant from the perspective of engagement, agency, education, well-being and employment.

The objective of the Reveal Your Skills theme is to 

1. inspire and encourage people and communities to identify their skills and to make them visible
2. boost public discussion on the importance of identifying skills for individuals, communities, and the whole of society

3. gather many actors around a shared message.

    

The purpose of the campaign week was to promote the lifelong learning objective for Finland developed together by 30 key participants in Finnish society. According to the objective, it is important that individuals and communities can make their skills visible and make good use of their strengths.

The Reveal Your Skills campaign was organised for the first time in 2021. The host of the campaign weeks at the time was The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, and the campaign was planned in active co-operation with the Finnish Association of Adult Education Centres and the Sivis Study Centre. More than 350 different actors signed up.

SECLE was responsible for organising the Reveal Your Skills week for the first time in 2022. Over 300 partners signed up promoting the joy of learning and skills through articles, videos, photo campaigns, events, discussion meetings and all kinds of activities around the theme of skills and competence.

In 2023, over 320 different actors signed up! The joy of learning and skills was promoted actively also on social media.

You can reveal your and your community’s skills for instance by doing the following: 

• Highlight your own skills, or those of a colleague, a specific field of study, a profession, a work community, a hobby group, or another community!
• Organise events or workgroups that are open for everyone, or more restricted in availability, such as for your own clients, members, staff, partners, and networks.
• Provide tools and exercises for recognising skills.
• Bring the topic up in your own channels of communication and on social media in the form of blog posts, articles, statements, tweets etc. Use the hashtag #RevealYourSkills.
• Share content produced by others and participate in the public discussion.
• Conduct Timeout Dialogues on recognition of skills.
• What else can you come up with? Don’t be afraid to bring forward your own ideas and to talk about them far and wide through your own networks and your channels of communication!

• The activities and communication should be connected to identifying people’s skills and making them visible.
• The approach and communication are positive, appreciative, encouraging and focused on opportunities. The focus is on skills that have already been acquired, not on what hasn’t. Evaluating, comparing, measuring or judging skills does not constitute a suitable point of departure for the theme.
• Skills are accumulated in various environments: working life, daily life, hobbies, free time, family life, education, training, courses, etc. Skills are valuable, regardless of where they emerge from!

SECLE acted as the convener of the national Reveal Your Skills campaign weeks in 2022 and 2023 gathering many different actors around a shared message. The campaign was funded by The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra during 2022–2023.

The objective of the Reveal Your Skills week was to help people and communities to identify their skills, making them visible and bringing up the topic for public discussion. The power of the Reveal Your Skills week is in having made it happen together! We want to thank all partners who participated in making the week come true and revealing our skills together.

SECLE organised informative events and introductory functions well in advance of the campaign week.
 

All communities, companies, organisations, institutes, educational establishments, networks, and people interested in the topic were welcome to participate in the campaign.

Communities could go big or small in their participation. After registering for the campaign, the realiser communities received the Reveal Your Skills logo and other materials to support their communication.

We shared tips and ideas on how different groups can reveal their skills on social media.

We used the hashtag #RevealYourSkills.
 

The page has been updated on the 4th of September 2026.