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Skills Center

Welcome to the Skills Center. Learn how skills relate to occupations and how skill levels are measured.

Assess Your Skills

A good place to start is to assess your existing skills. These resources can get you started!

Identify Your Skills Using The Skills Profiler: 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: Certification implies an assurance that an individual possesses a specific occupational knowledge or skill level. Find certification resources here.
Skills Assessment Activity: Determine which skills are important to your career path and select potential future occupations.

Review Basic Skills

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!

Research Adult Literacy: Use these electronic resources and innovative research tools to learn about literacy developments nationwide and how they might affect you.
Learn How to Implement Basic Skills Programs: Review this practical career skills site, which offers information, resources, and technical assistance to help employers successfully create and support workplace basic skills programs.

Skills Standards

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.

Packing Your Essentials: Skills That Will See You Through Your Career: Check out this list of nine transferable skills deemed "essential". 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.
Visit the Center on Education and Work: Access career-related learning information intended to enable educators to engage youth in productive learning and career-development practices.

Skills Shortage

Determine which skills are needed by high demand occupations. Learn about the Information Technology worker shortage.

Learn About Trends and Projections: Use these resources to identify trends and projections regarding the impact of workforce training, the labor market, the impact of technology on the workforce of tomorrow, and the skills gap.
Understand Foreign Labor Certification Learn how certification assures that the admission of aliens to work in this country on a permanent or temporary basis will not adversely affect the job opportunities, wages, or working conditions of U.S. workers.