The Necessity and Ways of Developing General Skills Needed for Employment in a Knowledge-Based Society

To increase employability, a set of new general skills need to be developed. The modern perspectives on vocationalism have lead to new approaches in vocational training wherein the youth instaed of being trained for a specific job, are prepared to be more adaptive in the job market. Job specific training limits personal choice and adaptation to technological changes in the workplace and can not provide for the socio-economic needs of the society. However, even technical competence in a specific job requires general skills which need to be compatible with the contemporary workplace. To achieve such compatibility, educational methods need to be re-examined and training models redefined.