Job architecture | What is Skills Inference?

A critical component of building a skills-first organisation is the ability to understand, manage, and monitor the skills within your workforce.

Ultimately, organisations need to know the spread of skills across their workforce, common definition and language to understand and describe those skills, and they need to know the proficiency levels of skills within the business.

With a skills framework that can provide this level of insight, organisations are able to put a number of use cases into action. These include mapping career paths, improving training and performance management, hiring more effectively, and tracking pay progression data for pay transparency legislation.

The challenge for many organisations in reaching this stage has been that surfacing skills from a range of sources, often spread around different teams and in varied formats, has proved to be a barrier. This is where skills inference can make the difference.