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What skills do you need to succeed in today's workplace? Assess your skills and compare them to the skills of in-demand occupations. Find training to expand and enhance your own skill level.
A good place to start is to assess your existing skills. These resources can get you started!
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- Discover Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities - America's Career InfoNet
View the most important knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) for your selected occupation.
- Research Skills and Assessment - America's Career InfoNet
Locate articles and information on skills and assessment from our Career Resource Library.
- Identify Your Skills Using The Skills Profiler - America's Career InfoNet
Skills are your key to career opportunities. Build a list of your current capabilities to use in your resume. Use your skill set to identify and explore specific occupational opportunities. Identify potential gaps to help determine future training needs.
- Learn About Certification - America's Career InfoNet
Certification implies an assurance that an individual possesses a specific occupational knowledge or skill level. Find certification resources here.
- Search for Certifications and Certifying Agencies - America's Career InfoNet
Identify certifications and their certifying agency, then find courses to help you obtain certification.
- Find Testing and Assessment Information - CareerOneStop
Using O*NET, create a list of your skills or skills you plan to acquire, then find occupations that match most of your skills.
- Search for Skills - O*NET OnLine
Using O*NET, create a list of your skills or skills you plan to acquire, then find occupations that match most of your skills.
- Skills Assessment Activity - iseek
Determine which skills are important to your career path and select potential future occupations.
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Basic skills include the communication and computation skills essential to demonstrating competency. These are developed capacities that make learning easier. Basic skills include reading, writing, mathematics, listening, and critical thinking. Find out more!
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- Research Adult Literacy - Literacy.org
Use these electronic resources and innovative research tools to learn about literacy developments nationwide and how they might affect you.
- Visit the Literacy Link - Public Broadcasting Service
Find unique opportunities and resources here which help adults build basic skills for lifelong learning.
- Learn How to Implement Basic Skills Programs - Western Pacific Literacy Network
Review this practical career skills site, which offers information, resources, and technical assistance to help employers successfully create and support workplace basic skills programs.
- Visit the Workplace Basic Skills Network - Department of Education and Skills, UK
Visit the United Kingdom's skills organization dedicated to working with training providers, employers, trade unions, and other agencies to enhance and extend basic skills training in the workplace.
- Employability Skills 2000+ - Human Resources Development Canada
Rate yourself against the skills employers say are needed in today's workplace. These skills are needed to enter, stay in, and progress in the world of work.
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Skills standards are "performance specifications that identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities an individual needs to succeed in the workplace." Here are some helpful resources for you to visit.
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- Visit the Competency Model Clearinghouse
- Visit the Center on Education and Work - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Access career-related learning information intended to enable educators to engage youth in productive learning and career-development practices.
- Identify Career Clusters - States' Career Cluster Initiative
Use these informational categories for career guidance. This organizing tool may assist educators, counselors, and parents in their work with students to identify students' interests and future goals. The following clusters are available online:
- Health Science
Prepare for a career in health care through this creative collaboration among educational agencies, the health care community, policy-making bodies, and labor.
- Information Technology
This site offers information for a curricular framework for information technology careers including the design, development, support, and management of hardware, software, multimedia, and systems integration services.
- Manufacturing
Use this career platform that integrates career pathways and academic and skill standards. A certificate verifies a student's knowledge and skills in the context of the real-time manufacturing work environment.
- Find Research on Achieving Necessary Skills - U.S. Department of Labor
In 1990, the Secretary of Labor commissioned research to identify workplace skills required of today's young people. The following resources are available from the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS):
- Packing Your Essentials: Skills That Will See You Through Your Career - Human Resources Development Canada
Check out this list of nine transferable skills deemed "essential" by Canadian employers. Essential skills are not specific to any one career and they are not highly technical in nature, rather they are the skills people use to carry out a wide variety of everyday life and occupational tasks.
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Determine which skills are needed by high demand occupations. Learn about the Information Technology worker shortage.
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