I am a Writer or Publisher of Career References

• How can I use the profiles?
• How can I use the Reader's Guide?
• How can I use the Authentic Workplace materials?

You can use this part of the web site to:

• Ensure your materials include the Essential Skills used in occupations throughout Canada
• Build additional career/occupational information into your materials
• Integrate real work examples into your materials

The database of occupational profiles can be used to find information on particular occupations or the use of particular skills. There are also scales for describing skills by level of difficulty.

Occupations

You can research specific occupations

• Search the profiles using "Occupation". You can search using a job title or a code from the National Occupational Classification.
• You can, through a series of searches, identify skill expectations in various occupations. You may want to use "Advanced Search" to find a set of occupations.

• You can connect to other sources of information about these occupations using the Links to Other Sites at the end of each profile.

(NOTE: Not all occupations are on the database. What occupations are profiled?)

Skills

You can identify occupations where people make particular use of one or more of the Essential Skills

• Search using "Most Important Skills" to find occupations where one or more particular Essential Skill is considered more important that the others for successful job performance.

You can find real work examples that show how particular skills can be used

• Search using "Skills". You can find, for example, occupations that involve using geometry, interpreting graphs or complex decision making.

Scales

You can find out how to describe how skills such as Problem Solving or Decision Making have varying levels of difficulty.

• Use the complexity scales. Let's take problem solving as an example.
  • Enter any profile
  • Go to the Problem Solving section
  • Click on "Complexity"

This will give you information about the complexity scale for Problem Solving.

Do you want to see more examples of the Levels?

• Use Search by skills
• Click the box for Problem Solving. Then click Next.
• Click the box for the complexity level(s) you want to see. Then click Next.
• This gives you a list of all occupational profiles in the database that contain examples illustrating Problem Solving at the level of complexity you chose.
• You can see all these examples by clicking "View Examples" at the bottom of the screen.

NOTE: Any use of these materials in commercial products would require that copyright permission be obtained from Public Works and Government Services Canada or, where copyright on a Profile is held by a council, from the appropriate sector council.

Ideas for Using the Readers' Guide to Essential Skills Profiles

Use this to understand the terms used in the Essential Skills Profiles and the measurement scales used to describe the complexity of tasks.

You may find the complexity scales useful in developing classroom activities in "soft skills" at progressively more complex levels. (You may find it useful to consider the components identified for concepts such as Problem Solving and seeing how these components each range from simple to complex. This may help to identify stepping stones in the skill development process.)
View the Reader's Guide.

Ideas for Using the Authentic Workplace Materials

The sample workplace materials made available here could give you ideas for some activities that feature practical applications of the Essential Skills.

The write-up accompanying each sample provides some ideas for how it or documents like it could be used.

Samples from particular occupations could be used to give students a look at how these skills are used in the world of work.

NOTE: Any use of these materials in commercial products would require that copyright permission by obtained from Public Works and Government Services Canada or from the copyright holders for specific materials.

View the User Guide to Authentic Workplace Materials.