The ITCILO and ILO's Employment Department, Skills and Employability Branch join forces to organize a set of micro-courses on the skills anticipation and matching methods. The first edition of this learning pathway will focus on "Tracer Studies" and "Establishment Skills Surveys". Establishment Skills Surveys (ESS) is a process of collecting information on employer/establishment skills needs and workforce development strategies. An ESS is a mechanism that helps to define the type, level and composition of skills that individuals need to perform the work demanded by enterprises. It can also help investigate future skill needs and analyse the relationship between enterprise characteristics and the creation of skills, anticipating and delivering the skills that will be needed in the future, gathering intelligence on current and future skill needs for better matching of trainings and jobs, which is of paramount importance for every country in the world, in current context of dynamic and complex labour markets. ESSs are not just a mechanism to generate high-quality data, but also an instrument of institutional transformation, helping workers and enterprises adjust to change and to empower policy makers to design much better training and labour market policies.