SCANS Skills Competencies &Personal Qualities

What Is SCANS Skills???  Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) - appointed by the Secretary of Labor to determine the skills our young people need to succeed in the world of work.

SCANS 5 Competencies 1.Resources 2.Interpersonal 3.Information 4.Systems 5.Technology

Resources  Identifies, Organizes, Plans, and Allocates Resources  Resources include:  Time - selects goal-relevant activities, ranks them, allocates time, and prepares and follows schedules  Money - uses or prepares budgets, makes forecasts, keeps records, and makes adjustments to meet objectives  Material and facilities - acquires, stores, allocates, and uses materials or space efficiently  Human resources - assesses skills and distributes work accordingly, evaluates performance and provides feedback

Interpersonal  Interpersonal: Works With Others  Interpersonal includes:  Participates as member of a team - contributes to group effort  Teaches others new skills  Services clients/customers - works to satisfy customers expectations  Exercises leadership - communicates ideas to justify position, persuades and convinces others, responsibly challenges existing procedures and policies  Negotiates - works toward agreements involving exchange of resources, resolves divergent interests  Works with diversity - works well with men and women from diverse backgrounds

Information  Acquires and evaluates information  Organizes and maintains information  Interprets and communicates information  Uses computers to process information

Systems  Systems: Understands Complex Interrelationships  Systems include:  Understands systems - knows how social, organizational, and technological systems work and operates effectively with them  Monitors and corrects performance - distinguishes trends, predicts impacts on system operations, diagnoses deviations in systems performance and corrects malfunctions  Improves or designs systems - suggests modifications to existing systems and develops new or alternative systems to improve performance

Technology  Technology: Works With a Variety of Technologies  Technology includes:  Selects technology - chooses procedures, tools, or equipment including computers and related technologies  Applies technology to task - understands intent and proper procedures for setup and operation of equipment  Maintains and troubleshoots equipment - prevents, identifies, or solves problems with equipment, including computers and other technologies

SCANS Skills & Personal Qualities  SCANS Personal Qualities include:  Basic Skills  Thinking Skills  Personal Qualities

Basic Skills  Basic Skills : Reads, writes, performs arithmetic and mathematical operations, listens, and speaks  Reading - locates, understands, and interprets written information in prose and in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules  Writing - communicates thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in writing; and creates documents such as letters, directions, manuals, reports, graphs, and flow charts  Arithmetic/mathematics - performs basic computations and approaches practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques  Listening - receives, attends to, interprets, and responds to verbal messages and other cues  Speaking - organizes ideas and communicates orally

Thinking Skills  Thinking Skills : Thinks creatively, makes decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows how to learn, and reasons  Creative thinking - generates new ideas  Decision making - specifies goals and constraints, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternatives  Problem solving - recognizes problems and devises and implements plan of action  Visualizing - organizes and processes symbols  Knowing how to learn - uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills  Reasoning - discovers a rule or principle underlying the relationship between two or more objects and applies it when solving a problem

Personal Qualities  Personal Qualities: Responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self- management, integrity, and honesty  Responsibility - exerts a high level of effort and perseveres towards goal attainment  Self-esteem - believes in own self-worth and maintains a positive view of self  Sociability - demonstrates understanding, friendliness, adaptability, empathy, and politeness in group settings  Self-management - assesses self accurately, sets personal goals, monitors progress, and exhibits self-control  Integrity/honesty - chooses ethical courses of action

SCANS Skills Question #1  Learned abilities to perform tasks or duties of various occupations are: Workplace Ethics SCANS Skills Post- Secondary Training Life Long Learning

SCANS Skills Question #2  SCANS Thinking Skills include: Problem- Solving ReadingSociabilitySpeaking

SCANS Skills Question #3  SCANS Interpersonal qualities include: Creativity Knowing How To Learn ListeningSocial Skills

SCANS Skills Question #4  SCANS Basic Skills include: RecordingReadingThinkingInterpreting

SCANS Skills Question #5  If the interviewer asks about the ability to work with others, he/she is referring to which SCANS skill? : BasicInterpersonal Critical Thinking Problem Solving

SCANS Skills Question #6  A plan of action that an individual created while serving as prom chairperson can demonstrate competence in which SCANS area? ResourcesSystemTechnologyInformation

SCANS Skills Question #7  Documentation of a church mission trip to Peru can demonstrate competence in which SCANS area? Basic SkillsInterpersonalInformationTechnology

SCANS Skills Question #8  Serving as a local, state or national CTSO officer can demonstrate SCANS competence in the area of: Basic SkillsSystemsInformationTechnology

SCANS Skills Question #9  A computer spreadsheet that the individual created to manage a personal budget can best demonstrate SCANS competence in which area? InterpersonalSystemsInformation Personal Qualities

SCANS Skills Question #10  A photograph of a building that an individual constructed with tools and equipment can demonstrate competence in which SCANS area? InterpersonalSystemsTechnology Personal Qualities

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