Updating jobs and sectoral development: towards a quality approach based on social dialogue. ILO/Cinterfor Notes, 7
For seven years, the ILO, through its Inter-American Centre for Knowledge Development in Vocational Training (ILO/ Cinterfor) and together with its social stakeholders, has been developing a set of methodologies and sectoral outputs with a view to updating occupational structures, and job/ role descriptions and evaluations.
This update puts the focus on developing the skills required by workers and provides inputs to professionalize human management at the sectoral level. At the same time, it triggers discussion on issues such as health and safety, qualifications, occupational paths and lifelong learning, aspects that have gradually been incorporated into the agendas of social stakeholders. Increasingly, training and lifelong learning are included among people’s rights and companies’ needs and, in addition, constitute a key factor in sectoral strategies for competitiveness and sustainability.
