CONCLUSIONS

This chapter has introduced a number of competency frameworks that are used in a number of different industries. Each of these frameworks has a different scope, purpose and audience. Each of these frameworks is also recognised in its own particular field of interest and can be used, to different extents, as part of continuous professional development.

No single framework will provide all relevant skills for a single person, therefore, in many cases, it may be desirable to choose different skills from different frameworks and to map them together. An example of this was shown using the UKSPEC but, in reality, any source framework could be used or, indeed, a generic framework could be generated to perform this mapping – in fact, this is exactly what is done in the next chapter, where frameworks are mapped onto a generic framework to be used as a basis for competency assessment.

Now that frameworks have been introduced and discussed, it is time to look at how the information gathered from each framework can be used to generate a set of requirements that is needed to perform assessments against any framework.