Generic skills

Definition

Generic skill should be understood as skill that can be applied throughout the labor market and is based on an individual's psychological functioning. It is about action potential in the form of desirable behavior at work and not about characteristics or how someone "is" privately.

Description

The generic skills terminology is the result of a project carried out by Arbetsförmedlingen. For more information, please consult the project's report. This report serves as the main documentation for this terminology and should be read before making use of the terminology.

Below we will touch briefly upon how generic skills are represented in the Taxonomy.

Generic skills in the Taxonomy

The generic skills structure is represented in the Taxonomy as follows:

graph TD;
A --narrower--> B
B --narrower--> C

    A(skill-group)
    B(generic-skill-group)
    C(generic-skill)

Each skill description is found through the definition attribute, and additional labels to the most detailed concepts are found through alternative_labels.

Presently, the structure stands isolated from other concepts within the Taxonomy, meaning there are no relations to other concept types such as skills or SSYK level 4 groups.

GraphQL examples

The queries below can be tested through our GraphiQL interface.

Get generic skill structure

query MyQuery {
  concepts(type: "skill-group") {
    id
    preferred_label
    definition
    type
    narrower(type: "generic-skill-group") {
      id
      preferred_label
      definition
      type
      narrower(type: "generic-skill") {
        id
        preferred_label
        alternative_labels
        definition
        type
      }
    }
  }
}