Career Competencies/Employability Skills

Employability Skills: An Update (ERIC Digest No.220)
"What skills do employers want? How do these skills match those that youth and adults are developing through their school and work experiences? How can education and training programs prepare individuals to enter a rapidly changing workplace? These and other questions are examined in this Digest that explores skills currently needed for employment."
http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-2/skills.html

Employability--The Fifth Basic Skill  (ERIC Digest No. 104)
"This ERIC Digest discusses the relevance of employability as a fifth basic skill, describes employability components, and discusses strategies for incorporating employability skills into the instructional process." 
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9217/fifth.htm

Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) competencies report.

The SCANS Skills and Competencies: an Overview
"The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) was appointed by the Secretary of Labor to determine the skills our young people need to succeed in the world of work. The Commission's fundamental purpose is to encourage a high-performance economy characterized by high-skill, high-wage employment."

"The primary objective is to help teachers understand how curriculum and instruction must change to enable students to develop those high performance skills needed to succeed in the high performance workplace."
http://www.academicinnovations.com/report.html