The Mexican Competency Standards Model The Mexican Competency Standards Model July, 2003

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

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

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

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

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

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

Council for Standardization and Certification of Labor Competency (CONOCER) 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 CONOCER was formally constituted in August the 2nd, 1995

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 Peru Honduras Colombia Chile Panama El Salvador Uruguay Brazil Dominican Republic Costa Rica

Consolidation From , the Council has achieved the following results: Decreasing costs of standardization process from USD 6, 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 1997and 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 Basic Competencies: Reading, Writing, Mathmatics Key Competencies: Civic, family, personals, intercultural, etc. Labor competencies: NTCL, Enterprise References, Association Standards Effective Personal Employability CONEVYT SEP STPS CONOCER

KEY, BASIC AND WORK COMPETENCIES LABOR COMPETENCIES (EMPLOYABILITY) TIME EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROCESS DETERMINATED PLACE AND TIME TIME LABOR COMPETENCIES PRODUCTION PROCESS

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 School Elementary School Key Competencies Labor Market Junior College Competencies L5 L4 L3 L2 L1 L5 L4 L3 L2 L1 R - W - M High Level Competency Areas College NTCL (CONOCER) 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

Council for Standardization and Certification of Labor Competency Internet: Address: Constituyentes 810 Lomas Altas Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City Telephone: (52 55) Address: Constituyentes 810 Lomas Altas Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City Telephone: (52 55) Certificate Organization in ISO by: