The eligibility of a worker for a specific job post is often based on skills defined only according to a neutral standard. In a different perspective, we can also consider skills as a symbolic interplay between the social actors involved in securing the match between labour supply and labour demand. Based on a qualitative research in a local labour market, this paper examines the definitions of these social actors when skills are defined as a specific “habitus” in a given “field”. Therefore the lack of skills cannot be interpreted only as an individual fault, but also as a relational product.
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