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FAQs
Essential Skills are the skills people need for work, learning and life. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills and are the cornerstone of lifelong learning. There are nine Essential Skills: Reading Text, Document Use, Numeracy, Writing, Oral Communication, Working with Others, Computer Use, Continuous Learning, and Thinking Skills. The Essential Skills profiles describe how each of the nine Essential Skills are used by workers in a particular occupation. You can use the profiles to find information on various occupations or to see how the specific skills are used. To learn more about using the profiles, visit the How Can I Use This Site section of the Web site. There are currently close to 200 Essential Skills profiles available for occupations requiring a high school education or less. Research is ongoing to complete additional profiles for occupations requiring university or college education, or apprenticeship training. Once this research is collected and analyzed additional profiles will be made available on this Web site. Visit the Job Futures Web site for occupational information at a national perspective. The site also provides descriptions of work experiences from various programs of study and links to provincial and local labour market information. The Essential Skills and Workplace Literacy Initiative supports the development of tools and applications to help Canadians enhance their skill levels. To learn more about these resources, visit the tools and applications section of this Web site. For additional information on training and learning resources, visit the Jobs, Workers, Training and Careers Web site. NOC profiles are formal descriptions used to explain an occupation using a standardized language. Essential Skills profiles are used to describe how each of the nine Essential Skills are used by workers in a particular occupation. To order copies of the Essential Skills brochure or fact sheets, please mail or fax your request to:
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