The Mexican Competency Standards

Model

The Mexican Competency Standards

Model

July, 2003

Mexican labor situation before NAFTA

ARTIFICIAL

STABILITY IN

LABOR MARKET

OFFER

BASED

ECONOMY

POOR CORDINATION BETWEEN WORKING

CENTERS AND EDUCATIONAL

SUPPLY

Human talent managment by a competency model

KNOWLEDGE BASED

ECONOMY

INFORMATION AND

COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

NEW

HUMAN

ABILITIES

CHANGE IN WORKFORCE

REQUIRED ABILITIES

DEMAND

BASED

ECONOMY

COMPETENCY

STANDARDS

MODEL

• Developing linkages between work supply and demand

• Supporting standards based training and certification for unemployed people and active workers

Technical Education and Training Modernization Project (PMETYC)

To supply enterprises with relevant and high quality educational services according to their requirements of productivity and competitiveness, by:

GOAL

The PMETyC started its formal operation in September 1995, operated by the Public Education ministry and Work and Social Welfare Ministry

PMETYCPMETYC

COMPONENTS

COMPONENTS

Support to Private Sector Use of Support to Private Sector Use of Competency Standards in Training ProgramsCompetency Standards in Training Programs

Support to Private Sector Use of Support to Private Sector Use of Competency Standards in Training ProgramsCompetency Standards in Training Programs

Normalization and Certificación SystemsNormalization and Certificación Systems

Normalization and Certificación SystemsNormalization and Certificación Systems

Curricula Transformation and Update Curricula Transformation and Update

Curricula Transformation and Update Curricula Transformation and Update

Information Systens, Evaluation and ResearchInformation Systens, Evaluation and ResearchInformation Systens, Evaluation and ResearchInformation Systens, Evaluation and Research

«A» «A» (CONOCER) «A» «A» (CONOCER)

«B» «B» Education Secretary and Training Providers «B» «B» Education Secretary and Training Providers

«C» «C» Labor Secretary (STPS) «C» «C» Labor Secretary (STPS)

«D» «D» (CONOCER, SEP, STPS) «D» «D» (CONOCER, SEP, STPS)

• 200 million USD World Bank´s loan

PMETYC´s financial schema

• 3 million USD grant from the Interamerican Development Bank for CONOCER Pilot Projects

• Resources from Mexican Federal Government

PMETYC´s strategy

Period Phases

1995-1997Instrumentation of Labor Standards National System (SNCCL) and development of experimental institutional cases

1998-2000 Expansion of the SNCCL and transformation ofeducational offer based on market requirements

2001-2002 Adoption of competency model by educational and training systems and work organizations

Consolidation of SNCCL 2003-2010

Council for Standardization and Certification of Labor Competency (CONOCER)

Main responsibilities

• To promote development of Labor Competency Technical Standards (NTCL), integrated in an uniquenation wide system

• To set assessment and awarding mechanismsbased on NTCL for recognizing people´s working capability regardless the means by which theywere acquired

CONOCER was formally constituted in August the 2nd, 1995

Instrumentation

By July 2003, the Council has:

• Developed 601 Labor Competency Technical Standards (NTCL)

• Awarded 195,844 Labor Competency Certificates

Expansion

In order to ensure adoption of the Competency Based Model, the Council has established an Enterprise and Institution Projects Program. The most successful cases are:

• Bimbo (One of the most important baking companies in the world)

• Palacio de Hierro (One of the biggest departmental stores in Mexico)

Adoption

The Competency Based Model demand have beenincremented considerably in private enterprises, public organizations and foreign governments such as:

Guatemala

Peru

Honduras

Colombia

Chile

Panama

El Salvador

Uruguay

Brazil

Dominican Republic

Costa Rica

Consolidation

From 1997-2003, the Council has achieved the following results:

• Decreasing costs of standardization process from USD 6,815.28 to USD 1,581.73* (Average cost of producing one standard)

• Increasing number of Awarding Bodies from 7 to 32

• Increasing number of Evaluation Centers from 167 to 1313

* It was considered the exchange rate correspondent to 1997and 2003

Competency

• Person´s capability to perform a same productive function in different work contexts

• It allows to generate results with the quality expected by the productive sector

• It reflects knowledge, abilities, skills and attitudes

• It is observable, measurable, valuable, and

eventually certifiable

Three types of competencies

Basic Competencies:Reading, Writing,

Mathmatics

Key Competencies:Civic, family, personals,

intercultural, etc.

Labor competencies:NTCL, Enterprise References,

Association Standards

Effective Personal

Employability

CONEVYTCONEVYT SEPSEP

STPSSTPS CONOCERCONOCER

KEY, BASIC

AND WORK

COMPETENCIES

LABOR

COMPETENCIES

(EMPLOYABILITY)

TIME

EDUCATION A

ND TRAININ

G PROCESS

DETERMINATED

PLACE AND TIME

TIME

LABOR

COMPETENCIES

PRODUCTION PROCESS

Labor Competency Technical Standard (NTCL)

• It is an officially valid document

• It defines a functional labor standard

• It works like a referent to assess the people´s competency

• It establishes the quality characteristics expected by the productive sector

• It is made by experts in the question function with the CONOCER´s methodological support

Competence Level

Competence level is an indicator directly applied to the NTCL. It means:

The complexity of the labor activity referred by the function

The degree of autonomy of the performance

Different activities included in the NTCL

Competencies as a link between Education Competencies as a link between Education and Labor Marketand Labor Market

High School

Elementary School

Key Competencies

Labor

Market Junior College

CompetenciesCompetencies

L5

L4

L3

L2

L1

L5

L4

L3

L2

L1

R - W - M

High Level Competency

AreasCollege

NTCL

(CONOCER)

EducationSEP

EducationSEP

WorkSTPSWorkSTPS

SOCIETY SOCIETY

Quantitative achievements

• Increasing number of Assessment centersand Awarding Bodies

• Increasing number of awarded persons

• Decreasing costs

Qualitative achievements

• Unique evaluation instrument for each NTCL

• Distinction of different kinds of competencies

• Linkage between standard´s levels and educational divisions

• Inversion of the relationship between the educational supply and the labor market demand

Cultural achievements

• Insertion of Competency Model in private and public organizations

• Expansion of Mexican Model to foreign countries

• Employers recognition

• Workers motivation

Future Council prospect

To become from an operative To become from an operative institution to a regulatory and institution to a regulatory and

supporting instancesupporting instance

Council forCouncil forStandardization andStandardization andCertification of Labor CompetencyCertification of Labor Competency

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