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Essential Skills Profiles

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Review and validation of Essential Skills Profiles is ongoing. If you would like to be notified of these updates and/or would like to participate in stakeholder consultations regarding the profiles, please send your request to profiles-profils@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca.

The Government of Canada conducted extensive research to examine the skills people use in the workplace. From this research and through interviews with workers, managers, practitioners and leading researchers, over 350 Essential Skills Profiles have been developed for various occupations of the National Occupational Classification.

The Essential Skills Profiles describe how each of the key essential skills are used by workers in a particular occupation. They include:

  • A brief description of the occupation;
  • A list of the most important essential skills;
  • Examples of tasks that illustrate how each essential skill is applied;
  • Complexity ratings that indicate the level of difficulty of the example tasks;
  • The physical aspects of performing the job; and
  • The attitudes that workers feel are needed to do the job well.

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The Essential Skills Profiles can help you:

  • Learn more about the skills needed for different jobs;
  • Develop workplace training programs or job descriptions;
  • Investigate career options and learning plans; and
  • Create educational tools to enhance skills development.

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Date Modified:
2012-01-26