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need to be made keeping in mind that the same guarantees of success in one career are no longer valid. A need exists for diversity and flexibility in skills, and the ability to adapt and accept: change quickly. In some cases one career may have to be put aside and another one begun.

Labour markets now favour people with more advanced work skills as well as more general education. Much traditional low. skill work has been replaced by new technologies, and almost all remaining jobs have been moditicd by technology. As well, most work has become “upskilled” and = more complex - both more technical and more general.

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‘When you come right down to it, they have to be able to read and write. One of the main issues today is literacy. People can be technologically savvy, but can they read?”

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A 1996 British Columbia Business Council survey reported

language skills is still critical in virtually every occupation;

eto deal with more comples and abstract tasks, employers demand higher education and skill levels in new employees, whether they have graduated from high school, college, vocational school or university;

* basic computer literacy (word processing, manipulating data using a spreadsheet or a data base program and accessing information fron: network) is essential;

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