1. Skills 4 Success
3.00 – Understand the world of work and skills needed for employment success.
3.02 – Understand various skills needed for employment success.

2. Introducing . . . Listening Social Problem-solving
Workplace Specific Skills
Teamwork
Basic skills
Interpersonal skills
Thinking skills
Communication
Resources
Organizing and planning
Technology
Adaptability
Information
Systems
Transferable Skills
Foundation Skills
Personal Qualities
Listening
Decision-making
3.02 Understand skills needed for employment success

3. SCANS
SCANS is the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills for the work-place.
3 categories:
Foundation
Workplace-specific
Transferable
3.02 Understand skills needed for employment success

4. Foundation Skills – Basic
Reading – to interpret documents such as manuals, graphs & schedules
Writing – communicating with documents such as letters, directions, manuals, reports, graphs & flow charts
Arithmetic/Mathematics – basic computations & problem solving
Listening
Speaking
3.02 Understand skills needed for employment success

5. Thinking Skills Creativity Decision Making Problem Solving
Being able to Visualize
Knowing how to learn
Reasoning
3.02 Understand skills needed for employment success

6. Personal Qualities Responsibility Self-Esteem Sociability
Self-Management
Integrity/Honesty
3.02 Understand skills needed for employment success

7. Workplace Specific Skills
3.02 Understand skills needed for employment success

8. Resources Time – as with scheduling Money – uses or prepares budgets
Material and Facilities – acquires, stores & allocates efficiently
Human Resources – evaluates performance and provides feedback
3.02 Understand skills needed for employment success

9. Interpersonal Member of a Team – contributes to group effort
Teaches Others New Skills
Serves Clients/Customers
Exercises Leadership
Negotiates – makes agreements
Works with Diversity – works well with different types of people
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10. Information Acquires and Evaluates Information
Organizes and Maintains Information
Interprets and Communicates Information using oral, written, graphic, pictorial, or multimedia methods
Uses Computers
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11. Systems
Understands Systems – knows how social, organizational, and technological systems work
Monitors and Corrects Performance – distinguishes trend & predicts impacts on system operations
Improves or Designs Systems – to improve performance
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12. Technology Selects Technology Applies Technology to Task
Maintains and Troubleshoots Equipment
3.02 Understand skills needed for employment success

13. Transferable Skills You can take from one job to the next such as:
internships,
part-time jobs, groups,
or organization.
3.02 Understand skills needed for employment success

14. Examples of Transferable Skills
A presentation at a meeting about competitive events
Basic Foundation Skill – Listening and Speaking
Workplace-Specific Skill – Interprets and communicates information
You organized a surprise party by making out a guest list, sending invitations and directions, preparing food, and cleaning the house
Basic Foundation Skill – Writing
Workplace-Specific Skill – Resources – time, money, materials
3.02 Understand skills needed for employment success