Only the Michigan Employability Skills Profile and the SCANS Workplace Know-How have a significant number of items that do not have a clear place within the ALL categories. A few, such as "develop career plans" and "pay attention to details" in the Michigan Employability Skills Profile, would seem to be separate skills. Several others, however, appear to involve skills from a combination of the categories in our list. For example, "identify and suggest new ways to get the job done" from the Michigan Employability Skills Profile might incorporate a combination of problem solving, teamwork, and communication. Thus, these skills are not necessarily missing from the ALL model; rather, they might require a restructuring of the categories.

Overall, the ALL skill categories do seem to accommodate the skills identified by the documents that were chosen to be examined and, would do so for most any other skills list found in the employability skill literature. However, it can not be claimed that the combined list is complete. There may very well be other skills or competencies not identified by any of these efforts. If future efforts identify missing elements, then the model should be open to refinement, but the consistency among these studies gives enough confidence to proceed. A more likely shortcoming than omission is that a simple list of skills does not necessarily provide a sufficient degree of depth for a sophisticated understanding of life skills or a useful system of assessments. Therefore, the resulting set of life skill categories was treated as a first step in building an overarching framework of life skills.