Identifying Necessary Job Skills
Past efforts by industrial psychologists, business groups, and others to
characterize "job requirements" provide a starting point in developing a
SCANS approach to identifying the skills required by work. These past
efforts have developed a structure for examining and communicating
job requirements. An examination of these past efforts and the viewpoints
they represent can help SCANS refine its own viewpoint and focus its
efforts. We begin with a brief discussion of general approaches or
perspectives on job requirements. This is followed by a compilation
of "lists" of skill requirements with brief comments on each
of the different organizing frameworks.
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