The Mexican Competency Standards Model July 2003 Mexican

The Mexican Competency Standards Model July, 2003

Mexican labor situation before NAFTA OFFER BASED ECONOMY ARTIFICIAL STABILITY IN LABOR MARKET POOR CORDINATION BETWEEN WORKING CENTERS AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY

Human talent managment by a competency model DEMAND BASED ECONOMY KNOWLEDGE BASED CHANGE IN WORKFORCE REQUIRED ABILITIES ECONOMY INFORMATION AND COMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY NEW HUMAN ABILITIES COMPETENCY STANDARDS MODEL

Technical Education and Training Modernization Project (PMETYC) The PMETy. C started its formal operation in September 1995, operated by the Public Education ministry and Work and Social Welfare Ministry GOAL To supply enterprises with relevant and high quality educational services according to their requirements of productivity and competitiveness, by: • Developing linkages between work supply and demand • Supporting standards based training and certification for unemployed people and active workers

PMETYC C O M P O N E N T S «A» (CONOCER) Normalization and Certificación Systems «B» Education Secretary and Training Providers Curricula Transformation and Update «C» Labor Secretary (STPS) Support to Private Sector Use of Competency Standards in Training Programs «D» (CONOCER, SEP, STPS) Information Systens, Evaluation and Research

PMETYC´s financial schema • 200 million USD World Bank´s loan • 3 million USD grant from the Interamerican Development Bank for CONOCER Pilot Projects • Resources from Mexican Federal Government

PMETYC´s strategy Period Phases 1995 -1997 Instrumentation of Labor Standards National System (SNCCL) and development of experimental institutional cases 1998 -2000 Expansion of the SNCCL and transformation of educational offer based on market requirements 2001 -2002 Adoption of competency model by educational and training systems and work organizations 2003 -2010 Consolidation of SNCCL

Council for Standardization and Certification of Labor Competency (CONOCER) CONOCER was formally constituted in August the 2 nd, 1995 Main responsibilities • To promote development of Labor Competency Technical Standards (NTCL), integrated in an unique nation wide system • To set assessment and awarding mechanisms based on NTCL for recognizing people´s working capability regardless the means by which they were acquired

Instrumentation By July 2003, the Council has: • Developed 601 Labor Competency Technical Standards (NTCL) • Awarded 195, 844 Labor Competency Certificates

Expansion In order to ensure adoption of the Competency Based Model, the Council has established an Enterprise and Institution Projects Program. The most successful cases are: • Bimbo (One of the most important baking companies in the world) • Palacio de Hierro (One of the biggest departmental stores in Mexico)

Adoption The Competency Based Model demand have been incremented considerably in private enterprises, public organizations and foreign governments such as: Guatemala Panama Peru El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras Uruguay Colombia Brazil Chile Dominican Republic

Consolidation From 1997 -2003, the Council has achieved the following results: • Decreasing costs of standardization process from USD 6, 815. 28 to USD 1, 581. 73* (Average cost of producing one standard) • Increasing number of Awarding Bodies from 7 to 32 • Increasing number of Evaluation Centers from 167 to 1313 * It was considered the exchange rate correspondent to 1997 and 2003

Competency • Person´s capability to perform a same productive function in different work contexts • It allows to generate results with the quality expected by the productive sector • It reflects knowledge, abilities, skills and attitudes • It is observable, measurable, valuable, and eventually certifiable

Three types of competencies CONEVYT SEP Basic Competencies: Key Competencies: Reading, Writing, Mathmatics STPS Civic, family, personals, intercultural, etc. CONOCER Labor competencies: NTCL, Enterprise References, Association Standards Effective Personal Employability

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Labor Competency Technical Standard (NTCL) • It is an officially valid document • It defines a functional labor standard • It works like a referent to assess the people´s competency • It establishes the quality characteristics expected by the productive sector • It is made by experts in the question function with the CONOCER´s methodological support

Competence Level Competence level is an indicator directly applied to the NTCL. It means: The complexity of the labor activity referred by the function The degree of autonomy of the performance Different activities included in the NTCL

Competencies as a link between Education and Labor Market High Level College Competency Areas Elementary School L 4 NTCL L 3 (CONOCER) L 2 Key Competencies L 1 Junior College High School L 5 Labor Market R- W - M Competencies Education SEP Work STPS SOCIETY

Quantitative achievements • Increasing number of Assessment centers and Awarding Bodies • Increasing number of awarded persons • Decreasing costs

Qualitative achievements • Unique evaluation instrument for each NTCL • Distinction of different kinds of competencies • Linkage between standard´s levels and educational divisions • Inversion of the relationship between the educational supply and the labor market demand

Cultural achievements • Insertion of Competency Model in private and public organizations • Expansion of Mexican Model to foreign countries • Employers recognition • Workers motivation

Future Council prospect To become from an operative institution to a regulatory and supporting instance

Certificate Organization in ISO 9001 -2000 by: Council for Standardization and Certification of Labor Competency Address: Constituyentes 810 Lomas Altas 11950 Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City Telephone: (52 55) 5261 -58 -00 01 800 708 2000 Internet: http: //www. conocer. org. mx e-mail: info@conocer. org. mx