scans skills competencies &personal qualities. what is scans skills??? secretary's...
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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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