In this lesson you are applying what you already know about skills to job adverts. You should already have a competency-based form markup from the previous lesson in this unit (the form where you matched evidence to named competencies). Keep that nearby if you have it; if it is incomplete, you can still work today. Today you flip the direction: instead of form to evidence, you go advert to competencies. You will annotate a sample advert together first, then extract career- and job-based competencies from a live Irish vacancy you could actually imagine applying for, and save that list as your Competencies Extraction note in Strand 2.2.

Three terms you will use for the rest of this unit. Read the table before you open the advert.

Part 1: annotate the sample

Annotate the sample Front of House advert on screen (invented for practice only). Tagging rule: if the advert says you must have it, tag Essential even when a competency is hiding inside; tag Desirable when it is framed as an advantage or bonus; use Underlying competency only when the skill is buried and not framed as a must or an advantage. Pick a label, then click the phrase it fits. When your teacher reveals the model, compare where you agreed and where you differed. Pay special attention to phrases tagged as underlying competencies: those are the ones employers test even when they never name the skill.

Part 2: choose your live advert (gate before writing)

Open a live Irish job advert for a role you could actually imagine applying for (IrishJobs.ie, Indeed.ie, an employer careers page, or one of the real shortlisted vacancies your teacher has ready). If the network is slow or you cannot find a suitable role quickly, use the teacher backup printed live advert. Confirm the job title and source with your teacher or a partner before you start writing.

Part 3: write your Competencies Extraction note

In your Strand 2.2 Digital Portfolio folder, create Competencies Extraction[JobTitle].md (or .doc if that is your usual format; replace [JobTitle] with the real role, e.g. your **Competencies Extraction** document (Strand 2.2)). This note is portfolio evidence for Strand 2.2. It feeds Lesson 96 STAR work and sits in the Digital Portfolio trail that supports Portfolio in Action.

Use these headings:

• Job details: job title, employer, and where you found the advert (URL or printed source)
• Competencies (3–5): for each one, the competency name, the exact quoted phrase from the advert that shows it, and whether it is mainly job-specific or transferable across a career field
• Links to prior work: for each competency, one line linking it to your Strong Skills Evidence (Strand 1.1) or your Entrepreneurship Competencies Audit (Strand 2.1). If you have no prior evidence yet, write gap — no prior evidence (that is a valid, honest line)
• Weakest evidence: the one competency you have least evidence for right now
• What this shows (Portfolio in Action): two short lines on what this note proves about your ability to read a real Irish vacancy and map it to your own skill evidence

In-class minimum: job details, three competencies with quoted phrases, weakest-evidence line, and the two-line 'what this shows' blurb. Finish any remaining Strand 1.1 / 2.1 link lines as portfolio polish before next lesson if time runs out. Do not invent links; a named gap is better than a vague claim.

Talk these through with the person beside you. Open your Strand 1.1 skillset work (the Strong Skills Evidence note, or whatever you filed there) and, if you have it, your Entrepreneurship Competencies Audit (Strand 2.1). If a competency has nothing behind it yet, say so: that gap is the point.

• Which competency you extracted today already has a real occasion behind it in that Strand 1.1 work, and which one is still only a claim?
• If an employer shortlisted you on the competencies in your chosen advert, which single piece of evidence would you put first, and why that one rather than a longer list?

If you spot a gap, add one short bullet under Weakest evidence in your Competencies Extraction note. No new document.

Today you pulled competencies from a live Irish advert and saved the Competencies Extraction note to Strand 2.2.

• You labelled essential requirements, desirables, and underlying competencies on a sample Front of House advert (practice only)
• You saw how competencies often hide in ordinary sentences rather than in bullet lists
• You extracted three to five competencies from a live Irish job advert and saved them as Competencies Extraction[JobTitle] in Strand 2.2
• You linked each competency back to Strong Skills Evidence (Strand 1.1) or the Entrepreneurship Competencies Audit (Strand 2.1), or noted an honest gap, and named the one with least evidence

Optional stretch: add a second short extraction from a contrasting advert in the same career field and note which competencies stay constant across both.