Generic Skills

Key Competencies – Old SchoolEmployability Skills – New School

Key Competencies

Established by the Mayer Committee in 1992

Described as fundamental to the transfer and application of learning to and within workplaces

Were/are included in a table at the end of every unit of competency in a Training Package

Seven Key Competencies

Communicating ideas and information Collecting, analysing and organising

information Planning and organising activities Working with others and in teams Using mathematical ideas and techniques Solving problems Using technology

Levels of performance

Stand alone levels that do not correspond to the AQF as this was not in place when the key competencies were developedLevel 1 – perform/undertakeLevel 2 – perform and administer/manageLevel 3 – perform, administer and

design/evaluate and re-shape

What are the Employability Skills?

Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Initiative and Enterprise Planning and Organising Self-management Learning Technology

Where have Employability Skills come from?

Developed in response to requests from industry

Represent non-technical competencies for effective and successful participation in the workplace transferable’ skills

What’s new?

Not a new concept, but rather, a new emphasis

Replace Key CompetenciesIncorporated into Training Packages from

July 2007

employability skills

employability skills Employability

Skills

Employability Skills

Employability Skills Summary

One for each qualificationHelps identify and include industry

application of Employability Skills in training and assessment strategies

Identifying Employability Skills

Embedded in units Employability Skills Statements Need to unpack Employability Skills in specific

context or setting

Unit of Competency

Unit of Competency

Employability Skills

Summary

Job role

AQF

Typical workplace