Employability Skills

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Employability Skills
Allison Miller TAFE SA, Adelaide North Teaching
Learning Allison.Miller_at_tafesa.edu.au 08 8207
8041 http//moodle.tafesa.edu.au
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To be innovative in responding to the needs of
students, and the emerging skill needs and
workforce development requirements of industry
and communities
Employability Skills
Community of Practice
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Variety of Workshops Forums
Community Website e-Newsletter
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Why Employability Skills?
Generic Skills or Capabilities or Key Skills or
Key Competencies
Support successful completion of task based
activities central to any job role
Highly transferable
More emphasis required
Improved Human Capital Productivity
Embedded into all new revised Training Packages
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Key Stakeholder Buy In
VET Practitioners through QAG leadership support
DFEEST Manager for Training Packages, QAG
Conveyors, Senior Policy Officers, Industry
Skills Boards
TAFE SA Quality Dept - Auditors
Aim to engage in 2009
Industry
Students
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What is required?

• Trainers need to analyse units of competence
  locate relevant Employability Skills
• Talk to students about Employability Skills
• Modify existing resources/assessments to reflect
  relevant Employability Skills
• Assess Employability Skills in context record
  as per technical skills

• Who?
• How?
• What?

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Discoveries

• Build Capacity
• PD about ES Framework
• Identify own ES
• Unpacking Repacking into delivery/assessment

• Potential Outcomes
• Continuous Improvement
• Strengthen Relationships
• Quality Consistency

• Common Understandings
• Reduce fear anxiety
• Dispel myths
• Develop shared approach