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​What are Essential Skills?

Essential skills are the skills that people need for work, learning and life.
They are used in the community and the workplace, in different forms
​and at different levels of complexity. 

Essential skills provide the foundation for learning all other skills, and enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace changes.

The nine essential skills are:

     1 –    Reading
     2 –   Document Use
     3 –   Numeracy
     4 –   Writing
     5 –   Oral Communication
     6 –   Working With Others
     7 –   Thinking
     8 –   Computer Use
     9 -   Continuous Learning