Skills Assessment - Can help bridge skills gap

Merittrac (http://www.merittrac.com) recently won the NASSCOM IT Innovation Award. This company, born out of the need of the IT and ITES industries to manage their quality of recruitment and to "pre-qualify" candidates has been providing a much required service to the industry. Its one of those examples where an environment creates a new service or business model. The huge recruitment needs of the IT industry and the gap between Quantity and Quality gave rise to this service in India, which I am not sure is being used anywhere else in the world.
These assessment services must be throwing up a lot of data and statistics that can be used to perform a "gap and needs analysis" which can then be used by the education industry to focus their courses on offer. Continuing in the excellent statistical traditions of India with the Indian Statistical Institute, NCAER, Census Data, Election psephology this data can be harnessed to develop the right kind of curriculums.
My favourite is an assessment of values/soft skills - such as sense of responsibility, initiative, task based leadership, accountability, customer focus, drive for quality, sincerity, cost conciousness, honesty, etc. These are more big impact skills/values as compared to tech skills which can still be "taught" quite quickly. I am sure there is a way to assess these as well, even though they look difficult. Some of the best hirers can assess these thru a few questions!! When this "soft" assessment gains ground, this will itself make students aware that these are (seen as ) important for the industry and they'll focus on developing these "values"!!