What are Employability Skills?
This section provides an overview of Employability Skills including:
Background information
In 2002, the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry produced the Employability Skills for the Future report in consultation with other peak employer bodies. The report identified eight key, generic employability skills that individuals should have along with relevant job-specific and/or technical skills. They are:
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Communication
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Teamwork
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Problem solving
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Initiative and enterprise
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Planning and organising
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Self-management
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Learning
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Technology
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Employability Skills Framework
The report Employability Skills for the Future identified a number of Employability Skills ‘facets’. Facets are aspects of the skill that employers identify as important. The nature and application of these facets will vary depending on factors such as the individual industry sector, and job type. Click HERE to view a summary of the Employability Skills facets.
Training Package requirements
The CPP07 Property Services Training Package and CPC08 Construction, Plumbing and Services Training Package, address Employability Skills in the following ways:
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Employability Skills are incorporated into the CPP07 and CPC08 Training Packages in a way that reflects the specific needs of the industry stakeholders
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Employability Skills for each qualification are clearly identified and explicitly embedded within units of competency required for each qualification
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Employability Skills build on and replace the Mayer Key Competencies
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Each Employability Skill is further described in terms of ‘facets’ appropriate to the work role(s) addressed by each qualification
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The Training Package includes resources for employers, trainers, assessors and other stakeholders that enable them to identify both the specific Employability Skill facets applying to each qualification and where they are explicitly embedded in the units required for achievement of each qualification.
Incorporating Employability Skills into learning and assessment
RTOs are required to ‘unpack’ and analyse each unit of competency to develop learning and assessment strategies that include the application of Employability Skills. This includes implementing learning and assessment strategies that meet the needs of learners, and reflect industry and enterprise requirements. This will ensure learners who gain competency are also ‘job ready’.
Each qualification within the CPP07 and CPC08 Training Packages includes a table summarising the Employability Skills that are typical of the qualification. Due to the number of elective units of competency required by most qualifications, the industry/enterprise requirements described within each Employability Skill are representative of the Construction and Property industries in general and may not reflect specific job roles. The Employability Skills listings should therefore not be interpreted as definitive. Learning and assessment strategies for individual qualifications should be based on the requirements of the units of competency for each. Click HERE to see an example of how Employability Skills are incorporated within CPP07 qualifications.
Employability Skills for individual CPP07 and CPC08 qualifications can be accessed via the TGA website: www.training.gov.au
Links to Employability Skills information and resources
Click HERE to access information about Employability Skills on the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) website. Also, the former National Quality Council commissioned the development of a range of Employability Skills resources designed for use by VET practitioners in various contexts. Click HERE to access these via the training.com website.