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Essential Skills, Introduced in 1995
- Identified how a core or essential set of skills are used in the workplace
- Defined the set of skills as Essential Skills because they were found in virtually every
workplace in Canada
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Essential Skills
Human Resources and Social Development (formerly
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada)
- Reading Text
- Document Use
- Writing
- Numeracy
- Working with Others
- Continuous Learning
- Oral Communication
- Computer Use
- Thinking Skills
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Job Task Planning and Organizing
- Significant Use of Memory
- Finding Information
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How do they Compare?, Key Points
- Basically the same skills
- Research shows that these skills are transferable
- Attitudes have been found to be the
“drivers” behind an employee being
able and willing to use the other skills
- These skills and attitudes are found
throughout most industry sectors
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What we set out to do..., Development of Transferable Skills
- Update Entry Level Skills
- Combine them with the language of other skills frameworks
- Reflect the language used in the workplace
- Rename them Transferable Skills to emphasize their transferability
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Development Process
- Reviewed the Entry Level Skills Standards
- Integrated the language of Essential Skills
and Employability Attitudes
- Developed a framework diagram to show the
connections of the three sets of skills
- Created a draft Transferable Skills Standards document
- Circulated the draft document to an industry
review committee
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Development Process
Received strong participation in the feedback process
- Very supportive of having the attitudes
up front and calling them attitudes
- Everyone who replied made comments
that justified having those skills and
attitudes in the standards
- No negatives
Validation Committee
- Committee ratified the Transferable Skills Standards on March 7, 2003
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