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Essential Skills

Essential Skills are the skills that people need for work, learning and life. They are used in the community and the workplace, in different forms and at different levels of complexity.

• Reading
• Document Use
• Thinking
• Writing
• Oral Communication
• Computer Use
• Numeracy
• Working With Others
• Continuous Learning

Reading

Understanding materials written in sentences or paragraph (e.g. letters, manuals).

Document Use

Finding, understanding or entering information (e.g. text, symbols, numbers) in various types of documents, such as tables or forms.

Thinking

Finding and evaluating information to make rational decisions or to organize work.

Writing

Communicating by arranging words, numbers and symbols on paper or a computer screen.

Oral Communication

Using speech to exchange thoughts and information.

Computer Use

Using computers and other forms of technology.

Numeracy

Using numbers and thinking in quantitative terms to complete tasks.

Working with Others

Interacting with others to complete tasks.

Continuous Learning

Participating in an ongoing process of improving skills and knowledge.