{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/separate-domain-knowledge-tool-skill-and-transferable-capability",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0638",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Separate domain knowledge, tool skill and transferable capability",
  "summary": "Different skill layers decay and transfer at different speeds.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "Classify important capabilities into domain knowledge, tool or platform skill, and transferable skill or work activity. Then ask what each layer depends on and where it can be reused. Use the map to avoid mistaking mastery of one tool for mastery of the underlying job—or dismissing valuable tool depth as worthless.",
  "limits": [
    "The categories overlap in practice; use them to reason about portability, not to force every capability into a perfect box."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-career-portability-and-transition-readiness"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-F715D9A775E8739D",
    "RS-03662EE4D5160BB4"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "The current O*NET database separates occupations into tasks, work activities, essential skills, transferable skills, knowledge and technology skills, enabling comparison below the job-title level.",
      "source_id": "RS-F715D9A775E8739D",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "O*NET is U.S.-focused and its taxonomy should be treated as a structured comparison aid rather than a universal occupation model.",
      "locator": "Database content areas"
    },
    {
      "claim": "O*NET publishes transferable-skill and work-activity competency frameworks that can help identify capability overlap across occupations.",
      "source_id": "RS-03662EE4D5160BB4",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Framework overlap does not prove a person can perform a target role without context-specific knowledge and practice.",
      "locator": "Transferable Skills and Work Activities Competency Frameworks"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A skill list mixes concepts such as 'finance', 'Salesforce', 'problem solving' and 'SQL' as if they were the same type."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "The categories overlap in practice; use them to reason about portability, not to force every capability into a perfect box."
  ],
  "example": "A workflow consultant separates platform configuration from process modelling, data reasoning and stakeholder facilitation.",
  "check": "Each important capability has a layer and at least one plausible transfer path or limitation.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-F715D9A775E8739D",
      "title": "O*NET 31.0 Database",
      "url": "https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-03662EE4D5160BB4",
      "title": "O*NET Competency Frameworks",
      "url": "https://www.onetcenter.org/competencyFrameworks.html"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0638",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0643",
      "type": "use_before",
      "url": "/knowledge/track-where-your-capability-is-overly-concentrated"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-72B4F1DC8779A7DE",
      "title": "Make your skills portable before you need to move",
      "url": "/collections/make-your-skills-portable-before-you-need-to-move"
    }
  ]
}