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Opportunities for the Gulf Research Program: Middle-Skilled Workforce Needs Summary of a Workshop (2014) / Chapter Skim
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4 The Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes Needed for Success
Pages 15-20

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... • The inclusion of nongovernmental organizations in partnerships between the private sector and academic institu tions can help create educational pathways that produce well-qualified workers. • Agreement on general core competencies, including employability, or nontechnical skills, and more specialized competencies would enable all parties involved in education and training to work together coherently.
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From page 16...
... Yet we don't have enough people to take them off of natural and cultural resource service activities and of a hitch and send them to training." One possibility is partners. "Over many years, we have brought young to locate training in the places where workers leave for people out into the natural world and connected them offshore rigs so that people can receive training right to it," said Marsha Towns, director of partnership debefore they leave.
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... • Community preparedness and planning • Cultural competence DEVELOPING CORE AND • Basic knowledge and capacity to link SPECIALIZED COMPETENCIES community members with resources and services -- both health related and social in Maureen Lichtveld, professor and chair of the De- nature partment of Global Environmental Health Science at • Psychosocial basics the Tulane University School of Public Health and Trop Finally, she offered some cross-cutting areas relatical Medicine, began by laying out what she termed ed to employability: "guiding principles" for programs supported by the Gulf Research Program. Investments should be scal- • Communication able and sustainable locally, she said.
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From page 18...
... to provide students with information that is more tai lored to their skills and desires. "We don't orient our EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS students very much to reality, which means we can't funnel information appropriately to the skill set of our During the discussion session, the presenters and students." workshop participants spent several minutes discussing Jay Labov of the NRC pointed out that the NRC has what had been described as "soft skills," which Lich- developed several documents which articulate stratetveld suggested are better referred to as "employability gies that are designed to build the skills of students by skills." John Hosey, the Corps Network, discussed the having them do science, including the National Sciculture of the towns where many oil and gas work- ence Education Standards and the framework for K-12 ers live.
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... Also the study of organizations could help shed light on how organizations function, how leadership functions, what people say, what people do, and what they do not do. "This community needs to reach out to those who study organizations, people, teamwork, and critical thinking in all of the constructs that we have been talking about," he said.
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