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An underlying, enduring trait useful for performing a specified act or task, either physical or mental. Such traits can be learned or innate.
What is an Ability?
Education or training, usually systematic and through an institution with some kind of institutional recognition or credentials. It is organized and structured, and has learning objectives.
What is Formal Learning?
Information covers the principal elements of the labour market and its operations. It can include: data on employment, wages, standards & qualifications, job openings, working conditions. Information may be historical, current or projected; formally or informally collected; and based in skills, occupations or industries.
What is Labour Market Information?
This ingredient is largely intangible, hard to quantify and can represent personality traits and interpersonal skills. Eg: organizational skills, reliability, etiquette, getting along with others, communication skills.
What are Soft Skills?
The successful achievement of a task or completion of a goal.
What is an Accomplishment?
A two-part process of deciding what one wants to accomplish and then devising an action plan to achieve the result one desires.
What is Goal Setting?
Learning pursued throughout life: learning that is flexible, diverse and available at different times and in different places, through an interconnected web of different kinds of education and training that serve both life and work goals.
What is Lifelong Learning? ?
Abilities and aptitudes; what a person is good at. They can be learned or developed. Some examples of skills include typing, planning, organizing, communicating, etc.
What are Skills?
Specific, teachable abilities gained through experience and education that can be defined, quantified and measured. Eg: speaking a foreign language, typing speed, a degree, HTML, and accounting.
What are Technical Skills?
An attitude that something is the case, or that some proposition about the world is true
What is a Belief?
Labour market information applied to specific occupations or occupational groups. It includes categorization of occupations into groups, duties, skill levels, interests, physical activities, environmental conditions, educational/training req'ts, wage data, job openings, industry employers, all in relation to the work roles in demand in the labour market.
What is Occupational Information?
The talents a person gathers throughout their career and through other real life experiences which can be transferred to a new job or new career.
What are Transferable Skills?
The collection, organization and analysis of information to increase understanding of a topic or issue.
What is Research?
Acquisition of skills and knowledge through independent study, volunteer activities, travelling and/or hobbies. It is often referred to as learning by experience.
What is Informal Learning?
An individual’s combination of personal, social and emotional traits, motivations, needs, drives, attitude and approach to activities and outlook.
What is Personality?
A broad range of beliefs or principles that are meaningful to a particular group or individual. They are subjective, based on inner personal experience and occur at cultural and organizational levels. They are fundamental beliefs that drive the decision-making process and are key when making a choice about careers.
What are Values?
Skills needed for work, learning and other activities of daily life. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills, such as technical skills, and enable people to evolve with their jobs, adapt to change and succeed in the world of work.
What are Essential Skills?
Preferences for activities that are expressed as likes or dislikes. These could include activities, hobbies and subjects or topics. Some examples include: sports, music, art, and baking.
What are Interests?
The process of evaluating one’s abilities, skills, values, interests, preferences and personality . It is the first step in the career planning process.
What is Self Assessment?
The qualities in your work life that are important to you. Includes features such as hours of work, pay, length of commute (external values) and recognition or status (internal values)
What are Workplace Preferences? (aka Workplace wants and needs)