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EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO ESSENTIAL SKILLS What are Employability Skills? The term Employability Skills was coined by the Conference Board of Canada in 1992 to describe those skills which provide the basic foundation, the combination of skills, attitudes and behaviours to get, keep and progress on a job, to work with others on a job, and to achieve the best results (The Conference Board of Canada, Employability Skills Profile, 1992). The Conference Board developed its list of transferable skills from the responses of employers to a Canada-wide survey. The list includes the added skills employers look for before they hire their new employees (who already have the required technical skills). In ensuing years Canadians have come to realize that these skills are the skills needed for much more than employability. They are, in fact, the generic set of skills that are needed throughout all career and life development activities. They are not limited in their applicability and may be used in all environments. The term generic also refers to the transferable nature of these skills. (Michael R. Bloom and Kurtis G. Kitagawa, Understanding Employability Skills, The Conference Board of Canada, 1999, p.16). In today’s world there is an increasing need for people to be able to transfer their skills to new and constantly changing contexts. Therefore, part of the life/work development process must be the acquisition of skills that can be applied to a variety of situations. These employability skills are combined in various ways and have several other names, such as: transferable skills, core competencies, core skills, non-technical skills, essential skills, generic skills, soft skills, basic skills, and critical workplace competencies. Some people have recently coined the term E Skills to describe the broad range of Employability Skills, Essential Skills, Entrepreneurial Skills and Emotional Intelligence. A key to understanding these generic skills and eliminating the confusion about various labels or titles is by looking at what people do when they are actually using these skills. Once it is understood what the skills look like when they are being demonstrated, the actual labels assigned become less important. How are Essential Skills and Employability Skills Related? Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and the Conference Board of Canada have combined their efforts to show the connection between HRSDC’s Essential Skills and the Conference Board’s Employability Skills. (See attached diagram.) The Employability Skills–Essential Skills Connection: • Employability Skills and Essential Skills are, in many ways, the same skills – essential skills are described from the point of view of competent workers, and the employability skills, from the point of view of employers. • The Essential Skills Research Project (now completed) and the Essential Skills and Workplace Literacy Initiative (launched in April 2003) examine these skills using a detailed and systematic approach, and provide information on the different ways these skills are used in the workplace. The ESRP also provided a way to talk about differences in how skills are used and differences in the skills people have demonstrated.
• These skills are used beyond the workplace in a broad range of daily activities. • The Employability Skills Profile also includes attitudes and behaviours that employers are looking for. Essential Skills and Employability Skills are enabling skills that: • help people perform the tasks required by their occupation and other activities of daily life • provide people with a foundation to learn other skills • enhance people’s ability to adapt to workplace change Having and using these important skills, attitudes and behaviours helps individuals make smoother transitions and better connections—whether from school to work or further study, from employment back to education, or from job to job—and manage the many changes they experience in their lives. Having information about Essential and Employability Skills helps: • people see what employers are looking for, explore careers and get information about what people do in specific jobs; • instructors see the connection between skills development and what teachers are already doing and incorporate actual workplace materials into their classroom activities; • Guidance and career counsellors advise students, workers and others making labour market transitions about career options and educational routes; • course and curriculum developers create relevant educational programs and activities; • employers select and develop training for their employees; • trainers develop customized training programs; • parents, mentors and advisors assist young people to better plan for their futures. Useful sites: www.conferenceboard.ca/education www.blueprint4life.ca
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