What are national occupational skills standards? Structure of the national occupation skills standard in Vietnam

What are national occupational skills standards? Structure of the national occupation skills standard in Vietnam (Internet image)

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1. What are national occupational skills standards?

According to Clause 3, Article 3 of the Law on Employment 2013, national occupational skills standards means regulations on professional knowledge, practice capacity, and ability to apply such knowledge and capacity in work, which are required for a worker to perform his/her work depending on each qualification level of skills of each occupation.

2. Structure of the national occupation skills standard in Vietnam

According to Article 6 of Circular 56/2015/TT-BLDTBXH, structure of the national occupation skills standard of one profession consists of three (03) basic components as follows:

- Profession description:

The content shall describe the extent of the profession, job positions and main tasks to be done in a context.

- List of units of ability:

The content shall specify the list of units of ability of the profession and the units of ability of each job position in the profession where all of ability units are listed and sorted into groups as follows:

+ Basic ability: Ability to perform general works that are not for a particular occupation or production, business or service sector (hereinafter referred to as industry);

+ General ability: Ability required when working in a particular industry;

+ Professional ability: Includes the necessary abilities of the occupation that an individual needs to be admitted to have competence at a particular level.

- Units of ability:

The content of each ability unit is in the list of ability units. Each unit must demonstrate the following contents:

+ Name of the ability unit;

+ Components and performance criteria: The full description of the components in a unit of ability needed to be performed, the level of performance and the output that can be measured, calculated and determined;

+ Important skills and essential knowledge: provide information on the skills and knowledge needed to be effectively implemented and selected resources or alternative methods to achieve the outputs;

+ Implementation conditions: Describe the parameters for the application of abilities and types of works, resources and services that can be used when using the ability;

+ Assessment guide: set the context and the evidence selection method in support of the assessment to determine whether an individual meets the standards of the unit of ability or not.

- Structural format of the national occupation skills standard is prescribed in Appendix 01 enclosed with Circular 56/2015/TT-BLDTBXH.

3. Dossiers of request for appraisal of the national occupation skill standards in Vietnam

Dossiers of request for appraisal of the national occupation skill standards according to Article 12 of Circular 56/2015/TT-BLDTBXH as follows:

Immediately after completing the draft national occupational skills standard as prescribed in Clause 4 Article 11 of Circular 56/2015/TT-BLDTBXH, the organization assisting the development of occupational skills standard shall make dossiers of request for appraisal of draft national occupational skills standard (hereinafter referred to as dossiers of request for appraisal). The dossiers include the following documents:

- One (01) report on the implementation of the national occupation skills standard. Forms of the report as prescribed in Appendix 05 enclosed with Circular 56/2015/TT-BLDTBXH;

- One (01) draft national occupational skills standard compiled and finalized in accordance with the provisions in Article 11 of Circular 56/2015/TT-BLDTBXH, accompanied by a soft copy;

- Intermediary products used in the drafting of national occupational skills standard include:

+ Table of popular job positions as prescribed in Clause 5 Article 8 of Circular 56/2015/TT-BLDTBXH;

+ Job analysis sheets, diagram of the job positions of the profession established and completed according to Article 9 of Circular 56/2015/TT-BLDTBXH;

+ Standard and documents related to the use of standards transferred by foreign countries (in case of using the standards transferred by foreign countries to adjust and compile into draft national occupation skills standard).

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