# competencyRequired

Knowledge, skill, ability or personal attribute that must be demonstrated by a person or other entity in order to do something such as earn an Educational Occupational Credential or understand a LearningResource.

## Expected Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [DefinedTerm](https://schema.org.ai/DefinedTerm) | A word, name, acronym, phrase, etc. with a formal definition. Often used in the context of category or subject classification, glossaries or dictionaries, product or creative work types, etc. Use the name property for the term being defined, use termCode if the term has an alpha-numeric code allocated, use description to provide the definition of the term. Use the about property to specify what the term is about. |
| [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text) | Data type: Text. |
| [URL](https://schema.org.ai/URL) | Data type: URL. |

## Used on Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [EducationalOccupationalCredential](https://schema.org.ai/EducationalOccupationalCredential) | An educational or occupational credential. A diploma, academic degree, certification, qualification, badge, etc., that may be awarded to a person or other entity that meets the requirements defined by the credentialer. |
| [LearningResource](https://schema.org.ai/LearningResource) | The LearningResource type can be used to indicate [CreativeWorks](https://schema.org.ai/CreativeWork) (whether physical or digital) that have a particular and explicit orientation towards learning, education, skill acquisition, and other educational purposes. [LearningResource](https://schema.org.ai/LearningResource) is expected to be used as an addition to a primary type such as [Book](https://schema.org.ai/Book), [VideoObject](https://schema.org.ai/VideoObject), [Product](https://schema.org.ai/Product) etc. [EducationEvent](https://schema.org.ai/EducationEvent) serves a similar purpose for event-like things (e.g. a [Trip](https://schema.org.ai/Trip)). A [LearningResource](https://schema.org.ai/LearningResource) may be created as a result of an [EducationEvent](https://schema.org.ai/EducationEvent), for example by recording one. |

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