Essential skills need to be recognised and developed by education providers and employers

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the world of work and the nature the
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jobs that we do have been changing
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increasingly rapidly in recent years
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driven in particular course by the
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advancements in technology
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indeed the crisis that we're going
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through now is changing other aspects of
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work about how and where we work and may
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result in other more significant changes
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like a rebalancing across the economy in
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terms of different demands and different
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sectors underpinning the world of work
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of course are the skills that we all
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need in order to perform the jobs and
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roles that we have now many of those
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skills will be very related or very
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specific to the jobs that we're
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performing and we will need to be very
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adapt and agile in our workplaces and
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organizations about building those job
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skills within our teams and within our
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workforces but what this is also called
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out is a much clearer recognition the
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underpinning almost every job that we do
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are what you might think of us a set a
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core or essential skills and those
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skills are interestingly very profoundly
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human skills there are the skills of
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teamwork of collaboration a problem
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solving of creativity of empathy and all
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of those kinds of skills are things that
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we haven't always called out very
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clearly in the past what we need now is
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of real focus on those skills and a
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common language in a way of
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understanding them all the way through
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the world of Education and into the
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world of work but it's also through the
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world of work as well because to be
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effective in any job at any level those
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remain very much the essential skills so
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we brought together as a number of
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influential organizations the essential
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skills task was to focus on that
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question could we define and develop a
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much more consistent framework to define
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those skills and use a common language
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we worked together as a group to build
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off the back of an already pretty well
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established framework called skills
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builder developed by the skills build a
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partnership that already had some good
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traction in many schools as schools
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themselves recognized that these
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essential skills were not only important
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for the world of work but indeed in many
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cases
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life skills so what we've done is to
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help to develop that framework into the
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context of employment as well and that
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will provide a consistent channel and
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framework where we can understand
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particularly for young people as they
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come to education and into the world of
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work what are the skills that they need
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to have and knowing that as employers
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are asked for those skills what are the
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experiences and well and ways in which
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they've learned those skills that they
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can articulate clearly so we're really
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excited to now launch that framework
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more broadly to encourage employers to
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adopt that framework as a way of
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thinking and communicating about those
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essential skills not only as they
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recruit young people but indeed as they
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develop people throughout their careers
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so do look out for the skills build a
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framework see how you can embed that
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within your organization see how you can
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use them to communicate more clearly to
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people at all levels of organizations
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about what those essential skills are
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because as I said at the beginning in
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the future world of work we can see more
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mobility people moving between jobs in
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genuinely careers which are a life of
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jobs and not a job for life that we
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might have had as the paradigm of the
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past and that's exciting but we need to
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help people understand what will help
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them progress what are their skills that
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can be transferred between different
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jobs and roles which will give them
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confidence as well that they can indeed
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adapt to a fast changing world thank you
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you