RELATIONSHIP OF COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

THE RELATIONSHIP OF CORE COMPETENCIES AND CONTEMPORARY SKILLS

Today’s relevant skills may be obsolete tomorrow. Neither there is a need for them to be a continuum of each other. What is to be underlined is that these skills are based upon and constructed upon the core competencies. The core competencies are at the center and the skills are around that center at a random distance and in a random phase.

See below a figure of representation of this relationship.



Fig 4: The Core Competencies and Skills relation scenario

This structure resembles on the whole a sphere if enclosed.

By and large the set of skills are short lived, except a few, when compared to core competencies.

They, instead of forming their own line of relationship often retrace and start from core competencies only.

This is what an institute is supposed to communicate also to the student. The first class of this relationship of skills to core competencies is to be taught at the institution. This combination and this relationship he/she carries for a fully unraveled experience of it in the next phase or in the industry.

Whoever – be it the institute or the industry – may do it, it is to be done.

Though it appears from all this exploration that it is the core competencies crucial in life scale – and truly it is so also, imparting of worthy skills on contemporary technologies and tools is also of equal importance at the student phase according to the same exploration.

This phase is highly sensitive in the whole of life-scale with an excessive reliance on contemporary skills, perhaps due to present day scenario in the job market. Gone or the days for institutions to wash off the hands with mere completion of syllabus. One must be made intelligent and equally smart – note the stress on equally in “equally smart”.