Generic Competencies
Despite the wide range of options for work in this field there are competences that are common to everyone. These can be divided into three types:
- Technical skills such as safety management, administrations skills and environmental skills.
- Process skills such as instructing and group leadership.
- Meta skills such as sound judgment, creative thinking, ethical behaviour and clear vision.
The technical skills are the easiest to train in and the quickest to acquire whilst the meta skills grow over a lifetime. With this in mind many employers recruit for the meta and process skills knowing that the appropriate technical skills can be easily developed once you start work. They are therefore especially important to describe in your curriculum vitae.