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The Mexican Competency Standards Model. July, 2003. Mexican labor situation before NAFTA. OFFER BASED ECONOMY. ARTIFICIAL STABILITY IN LABOR MARKET. POOR CORDINATION BETWEEN WORKING CENTERS AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY. Human talent managment by a competency model. DEMAND
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The Mexican Competency Standards Model July, 2003
Mexican labor situation before NAFTA OFFER BASED ECONOMY ARTIFICIAL STABILITY IN LABOR MARKET POOR CORDINATION BETWEEN WORKING CENTERS AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY
Human talent managment by a competency model DEMAND BASED ECONOMY CHANGE IN WORKFORCE REQUIRED ABILITIES KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY INFORMATION AND COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCY STANDARDS MODEL NEW HUMAN ABILITIES
Technical Education and Training Modernization Project (PMETYC) The PMETyC started its formal operation in September 1995, operated by the Public Education ministry and Work and Social Welfare Ministry GOAL To supply enterprises with relevant and high quality educational services according to their requirements of productivity and competitiveness, by: • Developing linkages between work supply and demand • Supporting standards based training and certification for • unemployed people and active workers
PMETYC COMPONENT S «A» (CONOCER) Normalization and Certificación Systems «B» Education Secretary and Training Providers Curricula Transformation and Update «C» Labor Secretary (STPS) Support to Private Sector Use of Competency Standards in Training Programs Information Systens, Evaluation and Research «D» (CONOCER, SEP, STPS)
PMETYC´s financial schema • 200 million USD World Bank´s loan • 3 million USD grant from the Interamerican • Development Bank for CONOCER Pilot Projects • Resources from Mexican Federal Government
PMETYC´s strategy Period Phases Instrumentation of Labor Standards National System (SNCCL) and development of experimental institutional cases 1995-1997 Expansion of the SNCCL and transformation of educational offer based on market requirements 1998-2000 Adoption of competency model by educational and training systems and work organizations 2001-2002 2003-2010 Consolidation of SNCCL
Council for Standardization and Certification of Labor Competency (CONOCER) CONOCER was formally constituted in August the 2nd, 1995 Main responsibilities • To promote development of Labor Competency • Technical Standards (NTCL), integrated in an unique • nation wide system • To set assessment and awarding mechanisms • based on NTCL for recognizing people´s working • capability regardless the means by which they • were acquired
Instrumentation By July 2003, the Council has: • Developed 601 Labor Competency Technical Standards (NTCL) • Awarded 195,844 Labor Competency Certificates
Expansion In order to ensure adoption of the Competency Based Model, the Council has established an Enterprise and Institution Projects Program. The most successful cases are: • Bimbo (One of the most important baking companies • in the world) • Palacio de Hierro (One of the biggest departmental • stores in Mexico)
Adoption The Competency Based Model demand have been incremented considerably in private enterprises, public organizations and foreign governments such as: Guatemala Panama Peru El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras Uruguay Brazil Colombia Dominican Republic Chile
Consolidation From 1997-2003, the Council has achieved the following results: • Decreasing costs of standardization process from USD 6,815.28 • to USD 1,581.73* (Average cost of producing one standard) • Increasing number of Awarding Bodies from 7 to 32 • Increasing number of Evaluation Centers from 167 to 1313 * It was considered the exchange rate correspondent to 1997and 2003
Competency • Person´s capability to perform a same productive function in different work contexts • It allows to generate results with the quality expected by the productive sector • It reflects knowledge, abilities, skills and attitudes • It is observable, measurable, valuable, and eventually certifiable
Three types of competencies CONEVYT SEP Basic Competencies: Reading, Writing, Mathmatics Key Competencies: Civic, family, personals, intercultural, etc. Effective Personal Employability STPS CONOCER Labor competencies: NTCL, Enterprise References, Association Standards
DETERMINATED PLACE AND TIME KEY, BASIC AND WORK COMPETENCIES LABOR COMPETENCIES (EMPLOYABILITY) TIME PRODUCTION PROCESS EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROCESS TIME TIE LABOR COMPETENCIES
Labor Competency Technical Standard (NTCL) • It is an officially valid document • It defines a functional labor standard • It works like a referent to assess the people´s competency • It establishes the quality characteristics expected by the productive sector • It is made by experts in the question function with the CONOCER´s methodological support
Competence Level Competence level is an indicator directly applied to the NTCL. It means: The complexity of the labor activity referred by the function The degree of autonomy of the performance Different activities included in the NTCL
Competencies as a link between Education and Labor Market College High Level Competency Areas L5 L4 L3 L2 L1 Labor Market Junior College NTCL(CONOCER) Key Competencies High School Elementary School R - W - M Competencies EducationSEP WorkSTPS SOCIETY
Quantitative achievements • Increasing number of Assessment centers • and Awarding Bodies • Increasing number of awarded persons • Decreasing costs
Qualitative achievements • Unique evaluation instrument for each NTCL • Distinction of different kinds of competencies • Linkage between standard´s levels and educational • divisions • Inversion of the relationship between the • educational supply and the labor market demand
Cultural achievements • Insertion of Competency Model in private and • public organizations • Expansion of Mexican Model to foreign countries • Employers recognition • Workers motivation
Future Council prospect To become from an operative institution to a regulatory and supporting instance
Certificate Organization in ISO 9001-2000 by: Council forStandardization andCertification of Labor Competency Address:Constituyentes 810Lomas Altas 11950 Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City Telephone: (52 55) 5261-58-00 01 800 708 2000 Internet:http://www.conocer.org.mx e-mail:info@conocer.org.mx