The document discusses core skills for women, including employability skills as defined by the International Labour Organisation. These skills enhance a worker's ability to secure and retain a job, progress at work, and cope with change. The core skills discussed include teamwork, problem solving, information and communications technology, communication and language skills. The document also notes the labour market reality for women and lists some important core skills like reading, writing, computing, communicating effectively, thinking creatively, and solving problems independently.

1. Core Skills for Women
February 2014
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2. Topics to be covered:
• Labour Market Reality for Women
• What are the Core Skills?
• Why are Core Skills for employability/entrepreneurs
important?
• How does one acquire core skills?
• Key issues, messages and good practice
• Conclusion
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3. The International Labour Organisation
defines employability skills as:
The skills, knowledge and competencies that
enhance a worker’s ability to secure and retain a job,
progress at work and cope with change, secure
another job if she so wishes or has been laid off and
enter more easily into the labour market at different
periods of the life cycle. Individuals are most
employable when they have broad-based education
and training, basic and portable high-level skills,
including teamwork, problem solving, information and
communications technology and communication and
language skills. The combination of skills enables
them to adapt to changes in the world of work.
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4. Labour market reality for women
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Globalised world
Learn and adapt
Read, write and compute competently
Listen and communicate effectively
Think creatively
Solve problems independently
Manage oneself at work
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at your next workshop/conference?
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