Generic Skills for the New Economy. Review of Research.

By P. Kearns. 2001

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The graduate attributes we’ve overlooked: enhancing graduate employability through career management skills (2009, background): “These generic skills are defined as ‘those transferable skills which are essential for employability at some level for most’ (Kearns, 2001, p. 2).”
Competence and Competency-based Training: What the Literature Says. (2009, background): “A review of generic skills needed for the new economy (Kearns 2001) examined how sets of key competencies/key skills have developed in Britain, the United States and Australia.”
Employability skills for the future (2004, background): “Kearns (2001) confi rms the high value placed by employers on both job-specifi c technical skills and generic employability skills in new and ongoing employees.”