Competency Chart
The Competency Chart is a tool to help you record and reflect on your Future Ready Talent Framework
(FRTF) competency development and demonstration. Identify key skills, abilities and knowledge
associated with each competency, and reflect on the evidence to prove you have them.
Explore the benefits to using this chart, including how it can help to build competency development
goals through the Develop Your Competency resource.
Remember:
Skills + Abilities + Knowledge = Competencies
Explore common skills, abilities and knowledge associated with each competency using the FRTF Matrix.
Skills, abilities
Competencies Evidence I have it
& knowledge
Context-specific skills ● apply knowledge ● took cs and math courses to improve my tech
related skills
Acquire and strengthen knowledge
and skills relevant to a specific ● intergrate knowledge from different areas ● did programming challenges outside of course to
improve my algorithmic thinking
discipline or context.
● develop new knowledge ● took stats class to better understand how to extract
useful information from data
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Information & data literacy ●
gather data collected data for my nuclear energy and my
● disnosaur extinction research project
Find, evaluate, interpret, synthesize, and
use information and data effectively. ● extract useful information from data ● used online resources and documentation for my
coding projects
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Technological agility ● grasp new tech with ease ● learned programming languages like python and c++
Assess, select and use technologies to
● advocate for tech innovation ● made a game in c++ to implement what i learned in
simplify and streamline the work class
required to reach the desired
outcomes. Demonstrate keenness and ● use tech to improve efficiency ● taking we accelerate asuze stream to improve my ai
related skills
aptitude for new technologies.
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Self-management ● manage time ● Balanced self study with my coursework using time
management skills like pomodoro
Act with professionalism, regulating
● maintain a positive attitude ● stayed organised and never missed a deadline for
behaviours for task and interpersonal any of my assignments and projects
challenges.
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Self-assessment ● acknowledged my limits ● Always seeked help from my peers and professors
when stuck and on areas of improvement
Reflect on how one’s motivation,
strengths and areas of challenge relate
● seek feedback and help from others ● tracked my time management by logging my work in
excel
to contribution to the workplace. Seek
feedback and remain curious and
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honest regarding one’s knowledge,
skill and abilities. ● ●
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Competency Chart
Skills, abilities
Competencies Evidence I have it
& knowledge
Lifelong learning & career ●
set goals
● set goals to learn more programming languages
development
Explore relationship between personal ● explore interests ● researched job oppotunities in software and tech
values and interests and occupation
options. Set career and learning goals. ● ●
Identify and pursue professional
opportunities and connections to help ● ●
reach goals. Track progress.
Communication ●
communicate your ideas effectively
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presented my research topic to others
Articulate thoughts, ideas, and
possibilities clearly and effectively in ● helping others and providing feedbacks ● helped my friends by explaining topics they had
hard time understanding
written and oral forms to persons inside
and outside the organization. Listen ● ●
actively and ask questions to
empathetically understand other people’s ● ●
viewpoints.
Collaboration ●
working effectively with others
● collaborated
poster
in 3 man group to make a research
Share responsibility as a positive
● building good relationship ● teamed up with my friend to make a game in c++
team member to solve problems and
meet goals.
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Intercultural effectiveness ●
value diversity and inclusion
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worked with classmates of diverse backgrounds
Seek contributions from, work
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cooperatively with, and express respect
for people from diverse backgrounds and
differing organizational perspectives. ● ●
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Innovation mindset ● stimulate ideas ● had to think innovatively about ideas for my
research project
Make unconventional or creative
connections across industries,
● create and invent ● coming up with ideas for my cs projects and then
implementing them to gauge my understanding of
contexts, or fields that enable the the topic
creation of ideas, approaches and ● ●
application of technology.
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Critical thinking ●
coming up with solutions to problems
● for solving coding assignments I had to think
logically and had to divide my problem into smaller
ones and tackle them one by one
Analyze problems critically, evaluate
● analyse ● had to think critically for ways to optimise my code
alternatives, and select the best course
of action.
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Implementation ●
taking initiative
● made a parking management system to transfer
manual record keeping
Structure, coordinate, organize, and
● identify concrete steps to complete work ● completed making a game in c++ by collaborating
successfully complete projects and tasks. with my friend
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