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Information use skills enable employees to successfully perform work tasks by understanding, evaluating, and using a variety of information. They include:
- Locates information
- Organizes information
- Uses information
- Analyzes information
- Communicates information
The following initiatives identified information use as an important employability skill. Rollover the matrix content to see descriptions of the skills from primary sources.
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| Resource | Information Use | ||||
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| Locates information | Organizes information | Uses information | Analyzes information | Communicates information | |
| Career Clusters Framework, National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium | X Locates information |
X Organizes and references written information |
X Uses information resources to accomplish specific occupational tasks |
X Evaluates information resources to accomplish specific occupational tasks |
X Uses oral and written communication in creating, expressing, and interpreting information and ideas |
| Citizenship Foundation Skills and Knowledge Clusters, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | X Locates information and resources |
X Analyzes, synthesizes, and evaluates information |
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| Employability Assessment Rubric, Chicago Public Schools | X Manages information |
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| Employability Skills 2000+, Conference Board of Canada | X Locates and gathers information |
X Organizes information using appropriate technology and information systems |
X Shares information using a range of information and communications technologies |
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| Equipped for the Future, Center for Literacy Studies, University of Tennessee | X Learns through research |
X Uses information |
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| Industry Competency Models, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor | X Checks, examines, and records |
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| National Career Readiness Certificate, ACT | X Locates, synthesizes, and uses information |
X Locates, synthesizes, and uses information |
X Locates, synthesizes, and uses information |
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| Partnership for 21st Century Skills | X Uses and manages information |
X Uses and manages information |
X Evaluates information and analyzes media |
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| Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS), U.S. Department of Labor | X Acquires information |
X Organizes and maintains information |
X Evaluates information |
X Interprets and communicates information |
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NOTE: These examples represent a sample of employability standards and assessments compiled during an inventory of employability skills conducted in 2012. They do not represent an exhaustive list of employability skills but rather include sources that are widely cited. The content of these sources may change over time to address skills that are not reflected in the above matrix.
