Essential Skills for the workforce
Essential skills are skills everyone needs to fully participate in the community and to be successful at work.
Every job category in Canada (search National Occupation Codes) has a particular set of essential skills that are required. The nine essential skills identified by Employment and Social Development Canada are:
- Reading
- Writing
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Computer use/digital skills
- Thinking
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Continuous learning
