SCANS Skills Competencies &Personal Qualities. What Is SCANS Skills??? Secretary's...

SCANS Skills Competencies&Personal Qualities

What Is SCANS Skills???

Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) - appointed by the Secretary of Labor to determine the skills our young people need to succeed in the world of work.

SCANS 5 Competencies

1. Resources

2. Interpersonal

3. Information

4. Systems

5. Technology

Resources

Identifies, Organizes, Plans, and Allocates Resources Resources include:

Time - selects goal-relevant activities, ranks them, allocates time, and prepares and follows schedules

Money - uses or prepares budgets, makes forecasts, keeps records, and makes adjustments to meet objectives

Material and facilities - acquires, stores, allocates, and uses materials or space efficiently

Human resources - assesses skills and distributes work accordingly, evaluates performance and provides feedback

Interpersonal Interpersonal: Works With Others Interpersonal includes:

Participates as member of a team - contributes to group effort Teaches others new skills Services clients/customers - works to satisfy customers

expectations Exercises leadership - communicates ideas to justify position,

persuades and convinces others, responsibly challenges existing procedures and policies

Negotiates - works toward agreements involving exchange of resources, resolves divergent interests

Works with diversity - works well with men and women from diverse backgrounds

Information

Acquires and evaluates information Organizes and maintains information Interprets and communicates information Uses computers to process information

Systems

Systems: Understands Complex Interrelationships Systems include:

Understands systems - knows how social, organizational, and technological systems work and operates effectively with them

Monitors and corrects performance - distinguishes trends, predicts impacts on system operations, diagnoses deviations in systems performance and corrects malfunctions

Improves or designs systems - suggests modifications to existing systems and develops new or alternative systems to improve performance

Technology

Technology: Works With a Variety of Technologies Technology includes:

Selects technology - chooses procedures, tools, or equipment including computers and related technologies

Applies technology to task - understands intent and proper procedures for setup and operation of equipment

Maintains and troubleshoots equipment - prevents, identifies, or solves problems with equipment, including computers and other technologies

SCANS Skills & Personal Qualities

SCANS Personal Qualities include: Basic Skills Thinking Skills Personal Qualities

Basic Skills

Basic Skills: Reads, writes, performs arithmetic and mathematical operations, listens, and speaks Reading - locates, understands, and interprets written

information in prose and in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules

Writing - communicates thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in writing; and creates documents such as letters, directions, manuals, reports, graphs, and flow charts

Arithmetic/mathematics - performs basic computations and approaches practical problems by choosing appropriately from a variety of mathematical techniques

Listening - receives, attends to, interprets, and responds to verbal messages and other cues

Speaking - organizes ideas and communicates orally

Thinking Skills

Thinking Skills: Thinks creatively, makes decisions, solves problems, visualizes, knows how to learn, and reasons Creative thinking - generates new ideas Decision making - specifies goals and constraints, generates

alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses best alternatives

Problem solving - recognizes problems and devises and implements plan of action

Visualizing - organizes and processes symbols Knowing how to learn - uses efficient learning techniques to

acquire and apply new knowledge and skills Reasoning - discovers a rule or principle underlying the

relationship between two or more objects and applies it when solving a problem

Personal Qualities

Personal Qualities: Responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, integrity, and honesty Responsibility - exerts a high level of effort and perseveres

towards goal attainment Self-esteem - believes in own self-worth and maintains a

positive view of self Sociability - demonstrates understanding, friendliness,

adaptability, empathy, and politeness in group settings Self-management - assesses self accurately, sets personal

goals, monitors progress, and exhibits self-control Integrity/honesty - chooses ethical courses of action

SCANS Skills Question #1

Learned abilities to perform tasks or duties of various occupations are:

WorkplaceEthics

SCANS Skills

Post-Secondary

Training

Life Long Learning

SCANS Skills Question #2

SCANS Thinking Skills include:

Problem-Solving

Reading Sociability Speaking

SCANS Skills Question #3

SCANS Interpersonal qualities include:

CreativityKnowing How To Learn

ListeningSocial Skills

SCANS Skills Question #4

SCANS Basic Skills include:

Recording Reading ThinkingInterpretin

g

SCANS Skills Question #5

If the interviewer asks about the ability to work with others, he/she is referring to which SCANS skill? :

BasicInterpersona

lCritical

ThinkingProblemSolving

SCANS Skills Question #6

A plan of action that an individual created while serving as prom chairperson can demonstrate competence in which SCANS area?

Resources System Technology Information

SCANS Skills Question #7

Documentation of a church mission trip to Peru can demonstrate competence in which SCANS area?

Basic SkillsInterpersona

lInformation Technology

SCANS Skills Question #8

Serving as a local, state or national CTSO officer can demonstrate SCANS competence in the area of:

Basic Skills Systems Information Technology

SCANS Skills Question #9

A computer spreadsheet that the individual created to manage a personal budget can best demonstrate SCANS competence in which area?

Interpersonal

Systems InformationPersonal Qualities

SCANS Skills Question #10

A photograph of a building that an individual constructed with tools and equipment can demonstrate competence in which SCANS area?

Interpersonal

Systems TechnologyPersonal Qualities

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