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Virginia Employers Speak. More than 300 Employers: Rated 21 different skills; Submitted comments; Offered recommendations. Responses confirm national surveys. Skills Rated “Essential”. Finalizing Virginia’s Skills List. A final skill list was created in the light of: Employer comments;
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Virginia Employers Speak More than 300 Employers: • Rated 21 different skills; • Submitted comments; • Offered recommendations. Responses confirm national surveys.
Finalizing Virginia’s Skills List A final skill list was created in thelight of: • Employer comments; • Current Career andTechnical Educationcurriculum.
Virginia’s Skills Include Personal Qualities & People Skills Professional Knowledge & Skills Technology Knowledge & Skills
Personal Qualities & People Skills • Positive Work Ethic • Integrity • Teamwork • Self-Representation • Diversity Awareness • Conflict Resolution • Creativity and Resourcefulness
Professional Knowledge & Skills • Speaking and Listening • Reading and Writing • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • Health and Safety • Organizations, Systems, and Climates • Lifelong Learning • Job Acquisition and Advancement • Time, Task, Resource Management • Mathematics • Customer Service
Technology Knowledge & Skills • Job-Specific Technologies • Information Technology • Internet Use and Security • Telecommunications 7
Virginia Workplace Readiness Skills Are: • Targeted to the needs of themodern workplace; • Based on 25 years of local and national research and experience; • Attuned to the CTE curriculum.
Achsah Carrier Demographics & Workforce Group Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service University of Virginia 434-982-5582 Achsah.Carrier@virginia.eduwww.coopercenter.org/demographics
References Casner-Lotto, Jill and Barrington L. Are They Really Ready to Work? Employers' Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century U.S. Workforce. Society for Human Resource Management, in collaboration with The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 2006. Martin, Julia, Achsah Carrier, and Elizabeth Hill. Virginia’s Changing Workplace: Employers Speak. Weldon Cooper Center. 1996. Martin, Julia, Donna Tolson. Changing Job Skills in Virginia. Tayloe Murphy Institute. 1985. Morisi ,Theresa. “The Early 2000s: A Period of Declining Teen Summer Employment Rates.” Monthly Labor Review. May 2010, 23-35. Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Framework for 21st Century Learning. 2009. Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. What Work Requires of Schools. SCANS. 1991. Sum, Andrew, et al., Vanishing Work Among U.S. Teens, 2000-10: What A Difference a Decade Makes! Four Million Missing Workers in June 2010. Prepared for the Charles S. Mott Foundation. July 2010.