Future Skills

The term generic skills is used in parallel with several others: transferable skills, future skills, employability skills, 21st-century skills, etc. In Estonia, mainly transferable skills and generic skills are used. Our career hub uses the term future skills to present a selection of generic skills that help you cope in the changing world.  

In career development, the following concepts are used:

• competence, which is a set of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required to work in a particular field;
• specialised or field-specific skills, which are needed to work in a particular field and to apply specialist knowledge;
• generic skills, which help cope with new situations and environments, complex tasks and different forms of communication. In career development, generic skills are of comparable importance to specialist skills but can be used and developed irrespective of the specialisation.