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Getting Your Bearings:
Workplace Essential
Skills Familiarization
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Defining Workplace Essential Skills
- the kind of skills that people use to carry out a wide variety
of everyday occupational tasks
- the foundation upon which more occupation-specific skills
are built (the Velcro to which other training sticks)
- enabling skills that help people perform tasks required by
their jobs
- skills which allow workers to learn new skills
- skills which enhance a worker’s ability to adapt to
workplace change
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- skills necessary to use printed and written information to
perform competently in a workplace and to develop one’s
knowledge and potential
- basic skills that help workers to fulfill their individual
and collective potential at work, at home, in the union, and
in the community
- generic skills required by most workplaces in the country
- the skills that help you keep a job
- the “academic”skills that individuals require
on a daily basis
- called basic, foundation, enabling, essential skills
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WES Examples
- reading and responding to an email
- writing in a logbook
- costing a product
- reading instructions in a manual
- interpreting a blueprint
- making a call to a supplier
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- reading a collective agreement
- estimating the amount of time a task
- scheduling daily activities
- taking notes at a meeting
- interpreting WHMIS symbols
- completing an expense claim
- calculating GST on an invoice
- providing a cost estimate and budget
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Essential Skills
HRDC Classifications
- reading text
- using documents
- writing
- numeracy
- oral communication
- working with others
- computer use
- thinking skills
- problem solving
- decision making
- critical thinking
- job task planning and organizing
- significant use of memory
- finding information
- continuous learning
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