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Essential Skills

I am a Career Counsellor

Ideas for Using the Occupational Profiles

You can use this part of the web site to help your clients:

  • Investigate career options
  • Build confidence in their ability to succeed in the workplace
  • See how what they are learning can be applied in the workplace
Your clients can use the Occupational Profiles to:

Research specific occupations

  • Search the profiles using "Occupation". They can search using a job title or a code from the National Occupational Classification.
  • They can connect to other sources of information about the occupation using the Links to Other Sites at the end of each profile.

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

Find out about occupations in areas that interest them

  • Search using "Keyword". Enter a word related to their area of interest.
  • Or, search using "Occupation" entering a word related to their area of interest.

Identify occupations that might suit their areas of strength

  • Search using "Most Important Skills" to find occupations that require skills where they think they are strong, or occupations that don't require skills where they think they are not strong.

Find out how skills they are learning are used in the world of work

  • Search using "Skills". They can find out, for example, who uses geometry, who interprets graphs or who has difficult writing assignments.
Show me how to do these searches.

Get help in thinking about their own skills

This accesses information about the complexity scale for Problem Solving. Start by looking at the examples that illustrate the levels of the scale. Have they done anything that looks like the examples for Level 1? Level 2? or higher? You may want to look at the formal definitions of the scale.

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.

Using the scales and examples, you and your clients can identify the strongest examples they can give from their own experiences for each of these skills. This could help in developing their resumes or portfolios.

Now that they have thought about their skills, they can compare their skills to the skills required in various occupations that interest them.

  • By comparing their skills to the skills in occupations that interest them, you can help them see that they already have some of the skills they will need. You can then help them set their own targets for further skill development.

For more help in thinking about these skills, your clients can visit the ESPORT - Essential Skills Portfolio.

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Ideas for Using the Readers' Guide to Essential Skills Profiles

Your clients can use the complexity scales and the illustrative examples for each level to help them think about their skills. This can help them describe their skills for their resumes or portfolios.

If this interests you, also see the Ideas for Using the Occupational Profiles and the ESPORT - Essential Skills Portfolio.

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Ideas for Using the Authentic Workplace Materials

Your clients may want to look at the materials used in jobs that interest them.

View the User Guide to Authentic Workplace Materials

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