What are soft skills 'Soft skills', 'Key skills' and 'Key competencies' Soft skills continuum. Education and labour narket initiatives.
{"Image DocumentName": "What are soft skills?\u2018Soft skills\u2019, \u2018Key skills\u2019 and \u2018Key competencies\u2019 Soft skills continuum. Education and labour narket initiatives.", "Image ImageDescription": "Soft skills are not so much identified, as constructed. (This gives a central position to the question of the purpose and values underpinning the identification of these skills.) Hard to pin down. Terms like \u2018soft skills\u2019, \u2018key skills\u2019 and \u2018key competences\u2019 used interchangeably. Continuum from content - or knowledge - focused skills (e.g. politeness) to personal qualities and dispositions (e.g. like empathy) Referred to in Education and/or Labour projects. Involved in general and vocational systems and adult education. Used by employer stakeholder bodies, sometimes with input from trade unions. Also influenced by research in cognitive psychology and theories of learning. Adult education focuses more on the development of the whole person, community and citizen. Vocational education is more geared towards labour-market readiness i.e. employability. Soft skills are not so much identified, as constructed. This gives a central position to the question of the purpose and values underpinning the identification of these skills.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}