Module 2
Skills and Competencies - Do They Really Matter?
In this module, you will learn the differences between skills, characteristics and competencies, and determining how employer’s demands of skills, characteristics and competencies will change between now and the future.
Watch this video to see what people are imagining for the future.
Think about this...
Technology is changing the way we live and how our workplaces operate. What does this mean for you as you navigate your career-life journey?
As an employee, you will need to be ready to adapt to the coming changes. Employers will expect you to have a different set of skills, competencies and characteristics than they did in the past.
But what do we mean by skills, competencies and characteristics?
These are the qualities that either come naturally to you or that you could gain through education, training and experience. Learning about them could help you decide what careers are a good fit for you.
WorkBC
WorkBC has a great website showing the Skills for the Future Workplace including an interactive graph of what it will take to be successful in a B.C. career of the future.
You will be visiting this website for this week's assignment.
The World Economic Forum
50% of all employees will need reskilling by 2025, as adoption of technology increases, according the the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report.
Critical thinking and problem-solving top the list of skills employers believe will grow in prominence in the next five years.
Newly emerging this year are skills in self-management such as active learning, resilience, stress tolerance and flexibility.
Respondents to the Future of Jobs Survey estimate that around 40% of workers will require reskilling of six months or less.
Assignment
In this assignment, you will use the Projected Top 10 Competencies in 2025 and relate them to your own transferable skills: the skills and abilities that are relevant and helpful across many different areas of your life: socially, professionally and at school. They are the ‘portable skills’ that you can develop and use in one area in your life and transfer to another area of your life.
The good news is that you already have transferable skills – you’ve developed such skills and abilities throughout your life, at school, at home and in your social life, as well as through any experience in your community.
Adapted from: www.skillsyouneed.com/general/transferable-skills.html
SUBMIT
Submit your completed assignment in your Flex block Google Classroom.
Due: Tuesday, December 5th