Continuous Learning

• The ability to participate in an ongoing process of acquiring skills and knowledge

Interesting fact.....more and more jobs require continuous upgrading and all workers must continue learning to keep or to grow with their jobs

Workers' Essential Skills become:

• knowing how to learn
• understanding one's own learning style
• knowing how to gain access to a variety of materials, resources and learning opportunities

Continuous Learning may include:

• training in job-related health and safety
• obtaining and updating credentials
• learning about new equipment, procedures, products and services

We use this skill when:

• we learn as part of regular work or from co-workers and when we access training in the workplace or off-site.

Digital

Digital skills are those needed to understand and process information from digital sources, use digital systems, technical tools, and applications.

Digital Sources and/or devices include:

• cash registers
• word processing software
• computers to send emails and create and modify spreadsheets

In the trades and technology professions, people use digital skills to:

• Input
• Access
• Analyze
• Organize
• Measure
• manufacture and communicate information and ideas using digital tools and other digital devices

Document Use

• involves a variety of information displays in which words, numbers, icons, and other visual characteristics (eg. line, colour, shape) are given meaning by their spatial arrangement

Includes:

• print and non-print media (for example, computer screen or microfiche documents, equipment gauges, clocks and flags);

We use this skill when:

• we read and interpret graphs, charts, lists, tables, blueprints, schematics, drawings, signs, and labels
• reading/interpreting and writing/completing/producing of documents

Numeracy

• Use of numbers
• Capability to think in quantitative terms

We use this skill:

• Doing numerical estimating
• money math
• scheduling or budgeting and accounting math
• analyzing measurements or data

Oral Communication

• the use of speech to give and exchange thought and information

We use this skill:

• to greet people
• take messages
• Reassure
• persuade
• seek information
• resolve conflicts

Reading Text/Lecture

• ability to understand reading material in the form of sentences or paragraphs
• generally involves reading notes, letters, memos, manuals, specifications, regulations, books, reports or journals

Reading includes:

• forms and labels if they contain at least one paragraph
• print and non-print media (for example, text on computer screens and microfiche)
• paragraph-length text in charts, tables and graphs

We use this skill to:

• scan for information
• skim overall meaning
• evaluate what we read
• integrate information from multiple sources

Thinking

• is the ability to engage in the process of evaluating ideas or information to reach a rational decision

Thinking differentiates between six different types of interconnected cognitive functions:

• problem solving
• decision making
• critical thinking
• job task planning and organizing
• significant use of memory
• finding information

Working with Others

Examines the extent to which employees work with others to carry out their tasks

Working with Others consists of two parts:

• Description of Work Context
• Supervisory or Leadership Activities

When Working with Others:

• we work as a member of a team or jointly with a partner
• we engage in supervisory or leadership activities

Writing

The ability to write:

• texts and writing in documents(for example, filling in forms)
• in non paper-based writing such as typing on a computer

We use this skill when:

• we organize, record, document, provide information to persuade, request information from others and justify a request