ABSTRACT
Competencies are an amalgam of skill and expertise. Accepting that an individual or team has the competence to perform given work tasks implies that some metric exists to assess what skills and expertise is sufficient to indicate a fitness or qualification to perform the work. This essay will argue that such metrics do exist but are scattered over diverse phases of skill and expertise development. Moreover, that their interrelationship and applicability to the assessment of the competencies required for any role is poorly considered. To assist in the matching of skills and expertise to competence requirements for a work role requires the use of guidelines on the competencies needed to perform actual work.
