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Skills/knowledge to be evaluated are grouped according to professionalstandards. A professional standard is a paper, defining requirements of professionalqualification for knowledge, skills, experience, values and personal qualities. Aprofessional standard acts as:− a specification of labour force qualification requirements;− a basis for elaboration of educational organisations curricula and studyprogrammes;− a basis for elaboration of vocational exams as well as for certification and−evaluation of professional qualification;a means for creating a basis for comparison of international qualificationcertificates.In practice prescription of professional requirements is substantial. Professionalrequirements are divided into four groups beginning with more general skills andending with specific personal qualities essential for working in a profession. Thegeneral principles of professional requirements are as follows (Fig. 4.4):−−−−general skills – requirements for general skills and knowledge originatingfrom economic affairs;basic skills – special professional requirements for skills and knowledge;extra skills – special professional requirements for skills and knowledge,characterised in narrow specialisation and/or necessity for executingadditional assignments at current position;personal qualities – expected personal identities and abilities required in acertain profession.The definition of specific skills/knowledge depends on the field of activity of anenterprise. The definition process should be started in every particular case from jobdescriptions of a current enterprise.Evaluation of skills/knowledge is the next step towards human resourcesdevelopment at an enterprise. For assessment a scale of grades [0…5] is used. Thelowest grade is “1” and the highest “5”. Grade “0” is used if the respective skill isnot relevant. Both needed (NL) and existing (EL) levels are to be evaluated.Innomet will play a significant role in engineering education managementprocess.Companies try to find skilled employees to fulfil their strategy. From the otherside the study programmes reflect the competency of particular educationalinstitution. Missing are coherent activities between industry and the academicworld.The real situation should be as follows.In companies one should do all defined by the list of skills related to a particularjob on the needed qualification level.In educational institutions a student after passing a course “should know” thesubject (passive skills) and “should be able to do” related to the subject (activeskills).The sum of active skills of the programme should match the lowest set of skillsby the related qualification standard.In the Innomet system there are separate processes which are tightly connectedwith each other (see Fig. 4.5).50