4.23 Essential Skills
Essential Skills build on Employability Skills
The Conference Board's Employability Skills
outlined in the last module describe the expectations employers have
of workers.
Service Canada
coordinated an Essential Skills Research Project. Using the
Employability Skills as a base, the project further defined the
foundation skills we need for life/work success. Essential Skills
include:
- Reading Text
- Use of Documents
- Writing
- Numeracy
- Oral Communications
- Thinking Skills
- Working with Others
- Computer Use
- Continuous Learning
The Research Project has also developed Essential
Skills Occupational Profiles describing how Essential Skills
are used in 190 occupations. Of these profiles, 150 refer to occupations that can be entered with a high school diploma or less. There are also some 40 profiles that describe occupations requiring study beyond high school.
This site has valuable information for work seekers.
If you know the skills needed in an occupation, you can judge whether you
have the ability to do the job and what further training you might
need.
To explore the Essential Skills Occupational
Profiles, you can search by Occupational
Title or view all the profiles in the database.
Bonus: Impress that job interviewer by using
the language you've learned (from the Database
of Profiles) to neatly describe your skills. Employers look for
candidates who show a good understanding of the skills needed to do
the job.
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