Essential Skills

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Essential Skills are the basic skills that make it possible to learn all other skills. For a complete description with examples please visit Office of Literacy and Essential Skills.

These are the nine essential skills:

• Reading text
• Using documents
• Numeracy
• Writing
• Speaking and listening
• Working with others
• Thinking skills
• Using a computer
• Continuous learning

Identifying Essential Skills provides job related information to help students and workers explore the skills needed for various occupations. Employers use essential skills to develop job descriptions, workplace training programs or decide what skills to seek when recruiting new staff.

Resources

• Literacy and Essential Skills Toolkit

Factsheets

• Essential Skills for Annual Meetings [PDF - 63 KB]
• Essential Skills for Community Living [PDF - 65 KB]
• Essential Skills for Health Literacy [PDF - 37 KB]
• Essential Skills at Home [PDF - 61 KB]
• Essential Skills in the Workplace [PDF - 54 KB]
• Essential Skills for Golf [PDF - 36 KB]
• Essential Skills for Family Vacations [PDF]
• Essential Skills for Gardening [PDF]
• Essential Skills for Household Food Management [PDF]
• Essential Skills for Playing Board Games and Cards [PDF - 140 KB]

Brochures

• Essential Skills for Home, Work and Community [PDF - 146 KB]
• Compétences essentielles à la maison, au travail et dans la communauté [PDF - 188 Ko]

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