Module 3
Making Sense of Skills and Competencies
In this lesson you will learn about the differences between skills, characteristics and competencies, researching the three terms on WorkBC and then determining how employer's demands of skills, characteristics and competencies will change between now and the future.
As you read through the material and visit the WorkBC website, you will learn about transferable skills: these are the skills and abilities that are relevant and helpful across many different areas of your life: socially, professionally and at school.
What are skills?
Skills are the expertise or talent needed in order to do a job or task. Job skills allow you to do a particular job and life skills help you through everyday tasks.
What are competencies?
Competencies are combinations of attitudes, skills and knowledge that students develop and apply for successful learning, living and working. Competencies help students draw and build upon what they know, how they think and what they can do.
Five years from now, over one-third of skills (35%) that are considered important in today’s workforce will have changed.
By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics.
These developments will transform the way we live, and the way we work. Some jobs will disappear, others will grow and jobs that don’t even exist today will become commonplace. What is certain is that the future workforce will need to align its skillset to keep pace.
A new Forum report, The Future of Jobs, looks at the employment, skills and workforce strategy for the future.
The report asked chief human resources and strategy officers from leading global employers what the current shifts mean, specifically for employment, skills and recruitment across industries and geographies.
For more information about the skills you will need in the future, access the following website.
Here you will find a variety of examples and explanations about the specific skills you will need to develop as you prepare yourself for your career-life.
ASSIGNMENT
Part I) What Skills Do I Have?
Complete the following worksheet to analyze what skills and abilities you already have.
SUBMIT
Submit your completed assignment in your Flex block Google Classroom.
Due: Monday, December 11th