employ ability skills presentation
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Employability Skillsand the
BSB07 Business Services
Training Package
Information forTrainers and Assessors
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The IBSA Resource and presentation
addresses:
What are Employability Skills?
Where have they come from?
Whats new? Implications for trainers and assessors
Suggestions for reviewing training and
assessment practices and techniques
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What are the Employability Skills?
Communication
Teamwork
Problem Solving
Initiative and Enterprise
Planning and Organising
Self-management
Learning Technology
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Where have ES come from?
Developed in response to requests
from industry
Represent non-technical
competencies for effective andsuccessful participation in the
workplace
soft, generic, transferable skills
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Whats new?
Not a new concept, but rather,a new emphasis
Replace Key Competencies
Provide opportunity to build on existingtraining and assessment practicesand techniques
employability
skills EmployabilitySkills
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Map against Key Competencies
Key Competencies Employability Skills
Communicate ideas andinformation
Communication
Work with others and in teams Teamwork
Solve problems Problem SolvingUse technology Technology
Collect, analyse and organiseinformation
Planning and Organising
-- Initiative and EnterprisePlan and organise activities Self-management
-- Learning
Use mathematical techniquesand ideas
(Contained within descriptionsof several of other
Employability Skills)
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DEST resource for trainers and assessors
DEST publication
Employability Skills: From Framework to
Practice - An Introductory Guide for
Trainers and Assessors
Available from www.training.com.au
(search under publications) and on the
CDROM with the IBSA Resource
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Employability Skills facets
Specific examples of skills and behaviours
Teamwork
facet
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Employability Skills Framework
EmployabilitySkills
Facets
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Employability
Skills
Framework Attachment 2 in the IBSA Resourcepresents the Generic ES
Framework for IBSAs Industries
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IBSA Employability Skills Project
1. Ensured Employability Skills now
explicitly embedded in BSB07
2. Developed Employability Skills Summary
for each qualification
3. Added Employability Skills statement to
each unit
4. Removed Key Competency references
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Employability Skills Summary
One for each qualification Helps identify and include industry application
of ES in training and assessment strategies
See Attachment 3
in IBSA Resource
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Changes to units
Employability Skills statement added to eachunit
References to Key Competencies deleted
Units modified, where appropriate, to makeEmployability Skills more explicit and to fill
identified gaps
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Identifying ES embedded in units
Need to unpack ES in specific context or setting
Unit of
Competency
ESSummary
Jobrole
AQF
Typicalworkplace
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Embedded Employability Skills
2 Discuss anddevelop ideaswith others
2.1 Identify people who could provide
input into ideas for improvements2.2 Select the best way of approaching
people to begin sharing ideas2.3 Seek feedback on improvement
ideas, and discuss and developoptions and possible variations
2.4 Review and select ideas for follow-up
based on feedback and furtherreview
Communication
Teamwork
Problem SolvingSelf-management
Qualification: Certificate III in BusinessUnit: Contribute to workplace innovation
See Attachment 4
in IBSA Resource
Learning
Initiative and Enterprise
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Embedded Employability Skills
1 Establish teamperformanceplan
1.1 Consult team members toestablish a commonunderstanding of team purpose,roles, responsibilities andaccountabilities in accordancewith organisational goals, plansand objectives
1.2 Develop performance plans toestablish expected outcomes,outputs, key performanceindicators and goals for work team
1.3 Support team members inmeeting expected performanceoutcomes
Self-management
Problem Solving
Planning and OrganisingLearning
Initiative and Enterprise
Communication
Teamwork
Qualification: Diploma of ManagementUnit: Ensure team effectiveness
See Attachment 4
in IBSA Resource
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Performance requirements
Employability Skills performance defined
by:
unit of competency itself
qualification level according to Australian
Qualifications Framework (AQF).
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Training and assessment practices
Deliver and assess ES in relation to theunit, not separately
Methods will vary according to
AQF level context of delivery (workplace, classroom or
flexible)
RPL approaches may produce usefulevidence of competence
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Training and Assessment Strategies
Employability Skill Training and Assessment Strategies and Activities
Communication Preparing and presenting written and verbal reports Demonstrations
Working in groups
Workplace tasks, simulations and role plays involving
workplace information and documents
verbal and non-verbal communication
clients (internal or external), teams and networks
networking and negotiating
...
Range of activities to support each skill For example:
Attachment 7 in the IBSA Resource
presents suggested activities to
support each skill
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What should learners know?
what Employability Skills are that employers value ES
that they are defined in an Employability
Skills Summary
that they are part of their training and
assessment
Attachment 8 in the IBSA
Resource presents
information for learners
The CDROM contains learner
information in MS Word format
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What should employers know?
what Employability Skills are that they have been identified and defined
nationally
that they are embedded in qualificationsand units of competence
that they are part of VET training and
assessment
Attachment 9 in the IBSA
Resource presents
information for employers
The CDROM contains employer
information in MS Word format
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What should trainers and assessors
know?
what Employability Skills are
that employers value them
that they are now embedded in
qualifications and units of competency
that they are to be delivered and assessed
in context of units of competency
that training and assessment strategies
may need to be enhanced
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Employability Skills and AQTF 2007
In part, the Essential Standards for
Registration under AQTF 2007 require RTOs to:
ensure trainers and assessors continue to
develop their competencies (Element 1.4c) ensure assessments meet all the Training
Package requirements (Elements 1.3,1.5)
develop and continuously improve training and
assessment strategies (Elements 1.1, 1.2).
Attachment 10 in the IBSA
Resource presents some
questions for RTOs to consider
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Reviewing your current strategies
Some questions RTOs need to consider:
Which areas should we focus on?
When will we do it?
Who will organise the session?
Who will facilitate the session?
Attachment 11 in the IBSA
Resource presents guidelines for
organising and facilitating a review
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