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Employability Skills For Australian Industry: Literature Review And Framework Development, David C. Curtis, Phillip Mckenzie
Employability Skills For Australian Industry: Literature Review And Framework Development, David C. Curtis, Phillip Mckenzie
Vocational, adult and professional education research
The Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) and the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) funded a project in 2001 to analyse and report on industry requirements for ‘employability skills’. This project was jointly managed by the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was completed in March 2002. Employability skills were defined for the purposes of the project as ‘skills required not only to gain employment, but also to progress within an enterprise so as to achieve one’s potential and contribute successfully to enterprise strategic directions’. The project was commissioned to provide: (a) …