July, 2003

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July, 2003
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Mexican labor situation before NAFTA
OFFER BASED ECONOMY
ARTIFICIAL STABILITY IN LABOR MARKET
POOR CORDINATION BETWEEN WORKING CENTERS AND
EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY
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Human talent managment by a competency model
DEMAND BASED ECONOMY
CHANGE IN WORKFORCE REQUIRED ABILITIES
KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY
INFORMATION AND COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
COMPETENCY STANDARDS MODEL
NEW HUMAN ABILITIES
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Technical Education and Training Modernization
Project (PMETYC)
The PMETyC started its formal operation in
September 1995, operated by the Public Education
ministry and Work and Social Welfare Ministry
GOAL
To supply enterprises with relevant and high
quality educational services according to their
requirements of productivity and
competitiveness, by

• Developing linkages between work supply and
  demand
• Supporting standards based training and
  certification for
• unemployed people and active workers

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PMETYC
COMPONENT S
Normalization and Certificación Systems

A (CONOCER)
Curricula Transformation and
Update
B Education Secretary and Training
Providers
Support to Private Sector Use of Competency
Standards in Training Programs
C Labor Secretary (STPS)
Information Systens, Evaluation and Research
D (CONOCER, SEP, STPS)
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PMETYCs financial schema

• 200 million USD World Banks loan

• 3 million USD grant from the Interamerican
• Development Bank for CONOCER Pilot Projects

• Resources from Mexican Federal Government

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PMETYCs strategy
Period
Phases
Instrumentation of Labor Standards National
System (SNCCL) and development of experimental
institutional cases
1995-1997

Expansion of the SNCCL and transformation
of educational offer based on market requirements

1998-2000
Adoption of competency model by educational and
training systems and work organizations
2001-2002
Consolidation of SNCCL
2003-2010
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Council for Standardization and Certification of
Labor Competency (CONOCER)
CONOCER was formally constituted in August the
2nd, 1995
Main responsibilities

• To promote development of Labor Competency
• Technical Standards (NTCL), integrated in an
  unique
• nation wide system

• To set assessment and awarding mechanisms
• based on NTCL for recognizing peoples working
• capability regardless the means by which they
• were acquired

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Instrumentation
By July 2003, the Council has

• Developed 601 Labor Competency Technical
  Standards (NTCL)

• Awarded 195,844 Labor Competency Certificates

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Expansion
In order to ensure adoption of the Competency
Based Model, the Council has established an
Enterprise and Institution Projects Program. The
most successful cases are

• Bimbo (One of the most important baking
  companies
• in the world)

• Palacio de Hierro (One of the biggest
  departmental
• stores in Mexico)

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Adoption
The Competency Based Model demand have
been incremented considerably in private
enterprises, public organizations and foreign
governments such as
Guatemala
Panama
Peru
El Salvador
Costa Rica
Honduras
Uruguay
Brazil
Colombia
Dominican Republic
Chile
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Consolidation
From 1997-2003, the Council has achieved the
following results

• Decreasing costs of standardization process from
  USD 6,815.28
• to USD 1,581.73 (Average cost of producing one
  standard)

• Increasing number of Awarding Bodies from 7 to
  32

• Increasing number of Evaluation Centers from
  167 to 1313

It was considered the exchange rate
correspondent to 1997and 2003
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Competency

• Persons capability to perform a same productive
  function in different work contexts
• It allows to generate results with the quality
  expected by the productive sector
• It reflects knowledge, abilities, skills and
  attitudes
• It is observable, measurable, valuable, and
  eventually certifiable

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Three types of competencies
CONEVYT
SEP
Basic Competencies Reading, Writing, Mathmatics
Key Competencies Civic, family, personals,
intercultural, etc.
Effective Personal Employability
STPS
CONOCER
Labor competencies NTCL, Enterprise References,
Association Standards
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KEY, BASIC AND WORK COMPETENCIES
LABOR COMPETENCIES (EMPLOYABILITY)
TIME
PRODUCTION PROCESS
EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROCESS
TIME
TIE
LABOR COMPETENCIES
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Labor Competency Technical Standard (NTCL)

• It is an officially valid document
• It defines a functional labor standard
• It works like a referent to assess the peoples
  competency
• It establishes the quality characteristics
  expected by the productive sector
• It is made by experts in the question function
  with the CONOCERs methodological support

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Competence Level
Competence level is an indicator directly
applied to the NTCL. It means
The complexity of the labor activity referred by
the function
The degree of autonomy of the performance
Different activities included in the NTCL
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Competencies as a link between Education and
Labor Market
L5 L4 L3 L2 L1
High Level Competency Areas
College
Labor Market

Junior College
NTCL(CONOCER)
Key Competencies
High School
Elementary School
R - W - M
Competencies
EducationSEP
WorkSTPS
SOCIETY
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Quantitative achievements

• Increasing number of Assessment centers
• and Awarding Bodies

• Increasing number of awarded persons

• Decreasing costs

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Qualitative achievements

• Unique evaluation instrument for each NTCL

• Distinction of different kinds of competencies

• Linkage between standards levels and
  educational
• divisions

• Inversion of the relationship between the
• educational supply and the labor market demand

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Cultural achievements

• Insertion of Competency Model in private and
• public organizations

• Expansion of Mexican Model to foreign countries

• Employers recognition

• Workers motivation

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Future Council prospect
To become from an operative institution to a
regulatory and supporting instance
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Council forStandardization andCertification of
Labor Competency
Address Constituyentes 810Lomas Altas 11950
Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City Telephone (52 55)
5261-58-00 01 800 708 2000
Internet http//www.conocer.org.mx
e-mail info_at_conocer.org.mx