‘Job Basic Competency Assessment’ Draws Attention from Electric Safety, Railroad, and Tourism Corporations ... Scheduled for Four Days Starting from the 12th

All 3rd-Year Students from 35 Vocational High Schools in Gyeongnam Province Take Exams

Gyeongnam Office of Education. / Photo by Se-ryeong Lee ryeong@

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Lee Se-ryeong] The Gyeongnam Office of Education announced on the 11th that all third-year students of 35 vocational high schools in the province will take the Vocational Basic Competency Assessment main test, which will be held from the 12th to the 15th.

The Vocational Basic Competency Assessment, supervised by the Ministry of Education, has been conducted nationwide for vocational high school students during the same period since 2015.

Organizations such as the Korea Electrical Safety Corporation, Korea Railroad Corporation, Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, and Korea Tourism Organization utilize the results of the Vocational Basic Competency Assessment when recruiting talent, and the Ministry of Education is steadily expanding the institutions that use the Vocational Basic Competency Assessment certificates.

Vocational basic competency refers to essential core abilities required for jobs beyond basic skills like reading or arithmetic, objectively measuring the degree of vocational competency required in the professional world through internet-based testing.

It classifies 'what one can do' rather than 'what one knows' into a five-level system, evaluating whether one can perform tasks by applying knowledge in contexts with job-related and realistic constraints.

The Vocational Basic Competency Assessment is conducted by dividing into a total of three competency groups and five evaluation areas.

The basic competency group includes communication areas such as Korean and English, and numerical utilization; the work processing competency group includes problem-solving; and the workplace adaptation competency group includes job adaptation.

The five evaluation areas include the 10 vocational basic competencies of the National Competency Standards (NCS): ▲communication ▲numeracy ▲problem-solving ▲information ▲technology ▲resource management ▲organizational understanding ▲interpersonal relationships ▲self-development ▲work ethics, and also diagnose personal characteristics highly related to job performance such as values, motivation, and tendencies.

Based on these results, the provincial education office plans to prepare customized supplementary learning plans to improve students' vocational basic competencies and support their use as employment resources.

Hwang Heun-gwi, Director of Career Education, said, “We will actively support our students to develop both job performance skills and vocational basic competencies evenly so that they can grow into future technology talents.”

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