FöRFATTARE
Heikki, Linda

DATUM
2000-12-18

INSTITUTION
Arbetsvetenskap / Arbetslivets socialpsykologi

SAMMANFATTNING
The reason why I’ve chosen to write a report about social competence is that I found a high misuse of the word social competence in jobadvertices, but also generally in all sorts of recruiting of the unemployed. The aim of this report was to describe and analyse the word social competence and to understand the significance use of it in recruiting. My method has partly been a attitude investigation among the unemployed and partly interviews made on people at the employment agency, on employers and on unemployed. The theoretical part in the report is based on a structure perspective and a individual perspective. Whit concepttheories about social alterations, norms, valuations, roles and characters I made an assumption that social competence is about acting in front of the employer in a jobinterwiev. The role in this act is determined by the norms and valuation in the society. The result indicates that both the unemployed and employers considers that it demands a special appearance of the unemployed to get a job. To be individual, without being “different” in a uniform society is the way to get a job.

ISSN 1402-1781 / ISRN LTU-C/DUPP--00/16--SE / NR 2000:16