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Revision as of 11:43, 7 May 2020
What KSA Is (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Sought Competences lesson that introduces its participants to employee competences and related topics.
This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Employment session of the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.
Contents
Content
The predecessor lectio is What Sourcing Is.
Key terms
- Work-related competence. Competence needed to perform productively in a particular occupation and, often, in a particular industry.
- Occupation-required competence. Competence required for a particular occupation.
- Industry-related competence. Competence related to work in a particular industry.
- Administrative competence. Competence needed to undertake enterprise efforts conceptually, regardless of specific industry or occupation.
- KSA (or knowledge, skills, and abilities). Description of work-related competence in a series of narrative statements. KSAs are particularly required when applying to United States Federal Government job openings. KSAs are used to determine, along with résumés, who the best applicants are when several candidates qualify for a job.
- Work-related knowledge. A body of knowledge applied directly to a particular occupation and/or industry.
- Work-related skill. A set of skills applied directly to a particular occupation and/or industry.
- Work-related ability. A set of capacities applied directly to a particular occupation and/or industry.
Script
- How to measure the talent that needs to be hired? To describe its employment vacancies, the United States Federal Government uses so-called KSAs.
- KSA is an abbreviation for knowledge, skills, and abilities. The Federal Government and many other employers use this format to describe work-related competences in a series of narrative statements. KSAs are used to determine, along with résumés, who the best applicants are when several candidates qualify for a job.
- The first letter, K, stands for work-related knowledge. This refers to a body of knowledge that is applied directly to a particular employment vacancy. In plain English, this is what the employment candidate needs to know.
- The second letter, S, stands for work-related skills. This refers to the set of skills that the employment candidate must possess to be hired.
- The second letter, A, stands for work-related abilities or the set of the candidate's capacities.
- What is the difference between a skill and ability? A skill is a particular ability that is developed through training and experience; this is a learned ability that its owner can use.
- To get job tasks done, employees need to possess sets of work-related competence. This sets vary depending on occupations, industries, and specific requirements of employers.
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- Occupation-required competence. Competence required for a particular occupation.
- Industry-related competence. Competence related to work in a particular industry.
- Administrative competence. Competence needed to undertake enterprise efforts conceptually, regardless of specific industry or occupation.
Operational KSAs is the successor lectio.
