Competencies are characteristics that the company thinks will make the person a successful hire.
Hence, caution should be noted in applying the results to other SME retail sectors (e.g., food or consumer electronics) because competencies and characteristics from products and services are different with the apparel industry.
Most available interest assessment tools are designed to be used for self-exploratory purposes, helping students discovering and expanding their interest patterns, and therefore most RIASEC measures use a large set of interest items, often referring to activities that people enjoy, occupations they want to try, or skills, competencies, and characteristics they might have.
Among the understood core competencies are characteristics such the departments' regulations, respecting the patients' will and bringing the patient into an improved state of health.
Job descriptions are developed by means of a job analysis, or the process of collecting and analyzing information about a job, including data on job duties, responsibilities, and context, as well as critical ingredients like required competencies and characteristics.
WONCA Europe, defines the core competencies and characteristics of family medicine as: responsibility for provision of longitudinal continuity of care as determined by the needs of the patient and for making efficient use of health care resources through coordinating care and working with other professionals in the primary care setting [ 33].
There is some literature about internationally trained health professionals; this literature mainly reflects the process of examining the credentials, competency, demographic characteristics and distribution of international medical graduates (IMGs) [ 8- 11].
The characteristics competencies defined by AIIT is a part of an important target in PBL.
In a second step, we investigate the extent to which the five personality dimensions can contribute to explaining six important life outcomes, above and beyond competencies and sociodemographic characteristics.
Against this outlined background, the present study aims to determine whether FVB students prefer an academic or vocational track and how economic competencies and other characteristics influence these preferences; differences amongst the economic competencies of FVB students with different educational aspirations are of particular interest.
