KEY COMPETENCES ON THE LABOUR MARKET
KEY COMPETENCES ON THE LABOUR MARKET

Summary/Abstract: Competences that employees should have can be found most explicitly in advertisements for job vacancies. The aim of our research is to study key competences, competences of leaders and of their employees, and competences linked to specific work areas based on advertisements for jobs, thus representing the demands of the labour market. The theoretical background is the competence framework of József Nagy (2000). His theory defines 4 subcategories of competence: personal, social, cognitive and specific competence, and closely resembles the key competence framework of OECD published in 2005. Our research was carried out in 2013. We have systematically selected 300 job advertisements from a pool of 5000 ads. These 300 advertisements were then studied by collecting the terms that referred to personality traits, skills and competence, and the categorization of these terms into competence categories by experts. We used the subcategories of József Nagy (personal, social, cognitive and specific competence) in the process and listed competences based on the frequency of other variables (e.g. competence of a leader / employee; area of specialty of the job mentioned in the advertisement), as well. A clear innovation of the study is that key competences and specific competences, which are linked to a specific area of expertise, could be differentiated. In accordance with our hypothesis our findings suggest that the labour market demands few of the key competences from employees and leaders.

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