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What are Essential Skills and Work Habits?

Essential Skills are the skills that enable people to perform tasks required by their occupation and other activities of daily life. These skills provide people with the foundation for learning other skills, such as technical skills, and enhance their ability to adapt to change. There are 15 in the OSP including reading, data analysis and critical thinking.

Work habits are also important for success in the workplace. There are 9 in the OSP including working safely, teamwork and customer service. Essential Skills and work habits are the skills needed for success in work, learning and life.

	INTERACTIVE TOOLS Essential Skills Introduction An interactive resource with examples and video links. Work Habits Introduction An interactive resource with examples and video links. Skills Pyramid An interactive resource that shows how Essential Skills connect to technical and to workplace-specific skills in a number of occupations. SkillsZone Games ESWH Games available in both flash and mobile formats.
	VIDEOS Discover Your Skills An animated introductory video to the OSP which illustrates how Essential Skills and work habits are used every day and why they are important in work, learning and life. Essential Skills Mini Clips Watch short videos showing each of the Essential Skills in action. Work Habits Mini Clips Watch short videos showing each of the work habits in action. Using Essential Skills: In Everyday Life and at Work A set of nine videos showing the ESWH used in different scenarios including a trip to the pharmacy and working as a paramedic. There are worksheets to go with the videos. Essential Skills Overview Video This video shows how a nurse uses Essential Skills, technical skills and job/workplace specific skills on-the-job.
	ACTIVITIES Complete the OSP Website Essential Skills activity. Complete the OSP Website work habits activity. Complete the Essential Skills and work habits walkabout activities.
	MORE RESOURCES Government of Canada Essential Skills website. Canadian Language Benchmarks' Essential Skills in the Workplace website.

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