🔺 Completing a Skills Gap Assessment? Here’s What You Need to Know
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🔹 A skills gap assessment is a formal way to uncover exactly which skills are missing in your organization, and what gaps you’ll be facing over the next few years. Instead of each manager recognizing what talent gaps they have in their department in silos, or relying on subjective opinions, a skills gap assessment underlines exactly what new hires you need to be making, and what areas you need specific talent.
🔹 Analyzing skills gaps is critical for enterprises because ignoring them can directly harm business outcomes. Without the right skilled employees, companies can face issues like poor customer service, delayed product development, and increased security risks.
🔹 There is a set process to follow when conducting a skills gap assessment, which can help you uncover and address needed talent and close the gaps ahead of time, before you see the impact on business metrics. Each business may need to tweak the process to fit their specific organizational context, but generally speaking you will need to go through these stages:
1️⃣ Identifying Business Goals and Objectives: What is on the roadmap for the next 12-18 months? For example, you may be planning to launch a new app, open a bricks and mortar store, move into leveraging AI, or land in a new geographic footprint.
2️⃣ Defining Required Skills and Competencies: To meet these goals, what skills and competencies will be needed? A new location might require native speakers or those who understand the culture.
3️⃣ Assessing Current Workforce Skills: Before you jump to hire, what skills do you already have in-house or in your existing talent pool?
4️⃣ Analyzing Data and Identifying Gaps:With a list of needed skills, and a list of available talent — you have everything you need to identify skills gaps.
5️⃣ Develop a Plan to Address Skills Gaps: Once you know what skills gaps you have, it’s time to fill them ahead of time.
6️⃣ Implement and Monitor the Plan: Now’s the time to fill those gaps! Using your roadmap, identify when you will need talent onboarded, and create a plan to fill roles ahead of time.
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