I think the big takeaway from this is the insight into how these skills are currently thought about by people who do not have a strong concept of what it means to be "employable". In many cases, these are thought to be "easy skills" that "everyone has" and do not need intentional, focused attention. I think the focus on baking it into every part of a student's school experience is very important.
Competency vs Competence
The Essential Workforce Skills-Taxonomy that ACCSC has created
Occupation specific skills vs soft skills
Before I even started this course, I battled with defining what soft skills are for others and what I believe soft skills meant. As stated in the course, Essential workforce skills are notoriously difficult to define because the definition considers cultural influences based on region, industry, or company. However, reviewing the Taxonomy adopted by ACCSC allows for a better understanding and uses specific concrete behavioral labels and definitions. Here we are continuing the conversation that began over 100 years ago, although now using a new term to be set apart from AI. I also found that implementing habitual self-reflection is our goal to help students and staff develop EWS.
Competency vs Competence
Develop our Instructional/Career Service Staff to emphasis more focus on Competency.
leaner how to use better language when speak of workforce skills. Its not that you have it or not, it can be learned, with more inclusive language/goals. Intend to implement using concrete terms verse ambiguous terms
