Employability Skills and the BSB07 Business Services Training Package

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Employability Skillsand theBSB07 Business
Services Training Package

• Information for Trainers and Assessors

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The IBSA Resource and presentation addresses

• What are Employability Skills?
• Where have they come from?
• Whats new?
• Implications for trainers and assessors
• Suggestions for reviewing training and assessment
  practices and techniques

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What are the Employability Skills?

• Communication
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving
• Initiative and Enterprise
• Planning and Organising
• Self-management
• Learning
• Technology

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Where have ES come from?

• Developed in response to requests from industry
• Represent non-technical competencies for
  effective and successful participation in the
  workplace
• soft, generic, transferable skills

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Whats new?

• Not a new concept, but rather, a new emphasis
• Replace Key Competencies
• Provide opportunity to build on existing training
  and assessment practicesand techniques

employability skills
Employability Skills
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Map against Key Competencies
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DEST resource for trainers and assessors

• DEST publicationEmployability Skills From
  Framework to Practice - An Introductory Guide for
  Trainers and Assessors
• Available from www.training.com.au (search
  under publications) and on the CDROM with the
  IBSA Resource

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Employability Skills facets

• Specific examples of skills and behaviours

Teamwork facet
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Employability Skills Framework
Employability Skills

Facets
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Employability SkillsFramework
Attachment 2 in the IBSA Resource presents the
Generic ES Framework for IBSAs Industries
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IBSA Employability Skills Project

• Ensured Employability Skills now explicitly
  embedded in BSB07
• Developed Employability Skills Summary for each
  qualification
• Added Employability Skills statement to each unit
• Removed Key Competency references

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Employability Skills Summary

• One for each qualification
• Helps identify and include industry application
  of ES in training and assessment strategies

See Attachment 3 in IBSA Resource
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Changes to units

• Employability Skills statement added to each unit
• References to Key Competencies deleted
• Units modified, where appropriate, to make
  Employability Skills more explicit and to fill
  identified gaps

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Statement in each unit

• The required outcomes described in this unit of
  competency contain applicable facets of
  Employability Skills. The Employability Skills
  Summary of the qualification in which this unit
  of competency is packaged will assist in
  identifying Employability Skill requirements.

See Attachments 6 and 7in IBSA Resource
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Identifying ES embedded in units

• Need to unpack ES in specific context or setting

ES Summary
AQF
Unit of Competency
Typical workplace
Job role
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Embedded Employability Skills
Qualification Certificate III in BusinessUnit
Contribute to workplace innovation
Problem Solving Self-management
Communication Teamwork
Learning Initiative and Enterprise
See Attachment 4 in IBSA Resource
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Embedded Employability Skills
Self-management Problem Solving Planning and
Organising Learning Initiative and
Enterprise Communication Teamwork
Qualification Diploma of ManagementUnit Ensure
team effectiveness
See Attachment 4in IBSA Resource
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Performance requirements

• Employability Skills performance defined by
• unit of competency itself
• qualification level according to Australian
  Qualifications Framework (AQF).

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Training and assessment practices

• Deliver and assess ES in relation to the unit,
  not separately
• Methods will vary according to
• AQF level
• context of delivery (workplace, classroom or
  flexible)
• RPL approaches may produce useful evidence of
  competence

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Training and Assessment Strategies

• Range of activities to support each skill
• For example

Attachment 7 in the IBSA Resource presents
suggested activities to support each skill
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What should learners know?

• what Employability Skills are
• that employers value ES
• that they are defined in an Employability Skills
  Summary
• that they are part of their training and
  assessment

Attachment 8 in the IBSA Resource presents
information for learners
The CDROM contains learner information in MS Word
format
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What should employers know?

• what Employability Skills are
• that they have been identified and defined
  nationally
• that they are embedded in qualifications and
  units of competence
• that they are part of VET training and assessment

Attachment 9 in the IBSA Resource presents
information for employers
The CDROM contains employer information in MS
Word format
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What should trainers and assessors know?

• what Employability Skills are
• that employers value them
• that they are now embedded in qualifications and
  units of competency
• that they are to be delivered and assessed in
  context of units of competency
• that training and assessment strategies may need
  to be enhanced

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Employability Skills and AQTF 2007

• In part, the Essential Standards for
• Registration under AQTF 2007 require RTOs to
• ensure trainers and assessors continue to develop
  their competencies (Element 1.4c)
• ensure assessments meet all the Training Package
  requirements (Elements 1.3,1.5)
• develop and continuously improve training and
  assessment strategies (Elements 1.1, 1.2).

Attachment 10 in the IBSA Resource presents some
questions for RTOs to consider
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Reviewing your current strategies

• Some questions RTOs need to consider
• Which areas should we focus on?
• When will we do it?
• Who will organise the session?
• Who will facilitate the session?

Attachment 11 in the IBSA Resource presents
guidelines for organising and facilitating a
review
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