workplace+skills

Every occupation or job requires the use of three sets of skills (specific actions, or the doing things)

1) Essential skills (these are the doing things that all jobs require eg. reading, writing, orally communicating etc.) 2) Technical skills (these are skills that are more specific to a line of work) 3) Job specific skills (these are the skills needed to do a specific task)

Example: If you wanted to be a chef you would need __essential skills__ such as: reading recipes, or orally communicating instructions to assistants.

You would need __technical skills__ such as: using proper chopping, slicing techniques, reading thermostats, measuring liquids and solids The above skills are transferable to any cooking job.

You would need __job specific__ skills if you wanted to be an Italian cuisine chef: such as making alfredo or pesto sauces, making fresh pasta etc.

Let's take a look at some occupations and the skills needed. [|Ontario Skills Passport]

Skills assessment __Literacy__ 1) Reading 2) Writing 3) Document use 3) Oral communication 5) Computer use __Numeracy__ 6) Money math 7) Scheduling/Budgeting <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">8) Measurement/Calculation <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">9) Data Analysis <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">10) Numerical Estimation <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Thinking Skills__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">11) Job task planning and organizingor <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">12) Decision Making <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">13) Problem solving <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">14) Finding Information