Core Skills for Women

February 2014

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Topics to be covered:

• Labour Market Reality for Women

• What are the Core Skills?

• Why are Core Skills for employability/entrepreneurs

important?

• How does one acquire core skills?

• Key issues, messages and good practice

• Conclusion

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The International Labour Organisationdefines employability skills as:

The skills, knowledge and competencies that enhance a worker’s ability to secure and retain a job, progress at work and cope with change, secure another job if she so wishes or has been laid off and enter more easily into the labour market at different periods of the life cycle. Individuals are most employable when they have broad-based education and training, basic and portable high-level skills, including teamwork, problem solving, information and communications technology and communication and language skills. The combination of skills enables them to adapt to changes in the world of work.

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Labour market reality for women

• Globalised world

• Learn and adapt

• Read, write and compute competently

• Listen and communicate effectively

• Think creatively

• Solve problems independently

• Manage oneself at work

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