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Employability

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The capacity of a person to secure a job, to keep it, to cope with changing technology and labour market conditions and to build a career.

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ILO, Monitoring, Evaluation and Performance Management in Employment - Technical Vocational Education and Training: Glossary of Terms. (English and Arabic), 2015
ILO, Monitoring, Evaluation and Performance Management in Employment - Technical Vocational Education and Training: Glossary of Terms. (English and Arabic), 2015
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“The glossary provides clear and specific definitions for the main performance management terms in the E-TVET context in both English and Arabic.”

Portable competencies and qualifications that enhance an individual’s capacity to make use of the education and training opportunities available in order to secure and retain decent work, to progress within the enterprise and between jobs, and to cope with changing technology and labour market conditions.

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UNESCO, Terminology of Technical and Vocational Education, 1984
UNESCO, Terminology of Technical and Vocational Education, 1984
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This publication is a practical terminology in the field of technical and vocational education for the purposes of international communication. After use of the original English/French version for over five years in numerous regional and international meetings, conferences, seminars and workshops held in those two languages, it was felt that publication of the guide in additional international languages would permit Unesco to contribute further to a better understanding in Member States of the Revised Recommendation concerning Technical and Vocational Education (1974), would facilitate the implementation of this instrument and would foster a more effective exchange of information in the field of technical and vocational education.

Employability refers to the set of skills, abilities and characteristics held by an individual which make that person able to gain and maintain employment. Employability has gained greater prominence as a term, as national governments have moved away from policies designed towards employment in favour of promoting the employability of citizens; a shift from demand side to supply side policy.

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Eurofound, Eurofound Glossary, 2022 (no longer available)
Eurofound, Eurofound Glossary, 2022 (no longer available)
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The glossary is a compilation of definitions of terms commonly found in Eurofound research and used across the website in the various areas of expertise.

The combination of factors which enable individuals to progress towards or get into employment, to stay in employment and to progress during their careers.

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Cedefop, Terminology of European education and training policy. 2nd edition. A selection of 130 key terms, 2014
Cedefop, Terminology of European education and training policy. 2nd edition. A selection of 130 key terms, 2014
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This multilingual glossary defines 130 key terms used in European education and training policy. An extended and updated version of Terminology of European education and training policy (2008) and Terminology of vocational training policy (2004), it also takes into account new priorities of European Union policy, mainly in skills and competence needs analysis. New definitions have been developed with the cooperation of experts from Cedefop’s research and policy analysis team.

1. The degree of adaptability an individual demonstrates in finding and keeping a job, and updating occupational skills.

2. Relates to portable competencies and qualifications that enhance an individual’s capacity to make use of the education and training opportunities available in order to secure and retain decent work.

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UNESCO-UNEVOC/NCVER, TVET glossary: some key terms, 2009
UNESCO-UNEVOC/NCVER, TVET glossary: some key terms, 2009
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This glossary has been published in the "International Handbook of Education for the Changing World of Work" (Vol. 1, chapter 5)
"The glossary aims to reflect the terminology found in the recent literature of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) research, policy and practice internationally. The most common and significant terms (including acronyms) are listed and, in some cases, national and regional variations have been included. To maintain an international perspective, other national and international glossaries and thesauri were consulted in conjunction with current TVET literature from around the world. Where definitions have been written by other organizations, the source of that definition is acknowledged. Unattributed definitions were created in-house at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). For some terms, where, for example, there are regional differences, more than one meaning has been provided."