Exploring Skills Intelligence

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  • Updated February 1, 2024
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    Summary of Exploring Skills Intelligence

    The Skills Intelligence platform leverages AI to analyze external industry data, providing insights into skills and job titles. This platform contains over 6000 skills, facilitating the development of a skills-based workforce that supports organizational transformation and enhances workforce optimization.

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    Key Features

    • Talent Development Integration: Skills Intelligence underpins Talent Development applications, helping guide career planning for managers and employees, ultimately leading to improved business outcomes.
    • Skill Validation in Manager Hub: Managers can review and validate employee skill proficiency levels through scheduled conversations, ensuring accurate skill profiles.
    • Skills-driven Learning Recommendations: The platform offers tailored learning suggestions based on employee skills, enhancing engagement and productivity.
    • Proactive Prompts: Contextual prompts deliver actionable insights to managers and employees in various engagement channels like Microsoft Teams and Outlook.
    • Hiring Core: This feature stores hiring requirements and provides skill recommendations for role groups based on data predictions.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing Skills Intelligence, organizations can:

    • Connect skills to actionable outcomes, driving workforce transformation.
    • Gain comprehensive employee skill profiles for better workforce planning.
    • Encourage proactive skill updates and development through validated profiles and recommendations.
    • Enhance the hiring process with skill-based insights.

    The Skills Intelligence platform uses AI to process external industry data, extracting information about skills and job titles. Learn how Skills Intelligence can help transform your organization to build a workforce that is based on skills.

    Skills Intelligence Overview

    The core capability of the platform is the underlying technology that resides in the Skills Intelligence engine. The Skills Intelligence application is equipped with base system data, which contains an extensive inventory of over 6000 skills. Access to this vast skills data enables you to build and optimize your workforce based on these comprehensive skills insights.

    Skills Intelligence overview

    Skills Intelligence for Talent Development

    The Skills Intelligence engine acts as the foundational layer that powers all the capabilities within Talent Development. Talent Development applications use skills at its core to guide managers and employees through their career plans. This approach not only supports individual development but also contributes to achieving better business outcomes. For more information, see Talent Development.

    Note:
    Skills Intelligence is only integrated with Talent Development applications.

    Skill Validation in Manager Hub

    After your employees update their skill proficiency levels in the required skills section of their skills profile, you can review and validate these skills by opening the conversations scheduled with your employees. Within Conversations there’s a dedicated section that offers details about skills that require validation. For more information, see Validate skills in Manager Hub.

    Skills-driven Learning recommendations

    Talent Development uses Skills Intelligence to deliver learning recommendations for employees and their managers, keeping them engaged and productive. For more information, see Learning overview. The Skills Intelligence application integrates with Learning to introduce skills-driven learning search results that your managers can use to recommend courses based on the skills of your employees. For more information, see Learning integration with Skills Intelligence.

    Proactive Prompts integrated with Skills Intelligence

    Proactive Prompts enable contextual and proactive engagement for your managers and employees by bringing actionable insights as prompts into their flow of work. You can use these prompts in multiple engagement channels, such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, Zoom, and the short messaging service (SMS). For more information, see Proactive Prompts for Skills Intelligence.

    Hiring core for Skills Intelligence

    Hiring Core provides a repository to store information for your hiring requirements. Activate the Hiring Core plugin (app-hiring-core) to start using it. Skills Intelligence runs predictions on the data in the hiring core tables and offers skill recommendations for role groups. For more information, see Hiring Core.

    Key benefits

    Connect skills to action in the transformation of your workforce and accelerate business outcomes by using the Skills Intelligence application.

    Table 1. Skills Intelligence benefits
    Features Benefits
    Employee skills profile Provides a comprehensive view of the skills that your employees have.
    Pre-seed employee skills Identifies the essential skills of an employee by analyzing the external data and data provided by employees about skills and titles. Prompt employees to update their skills based on this information.
    About Job Architecture Associates the career data of your organization with skills.
    Proactive Prompts for Skills Intelligence Enables contextual and proactive engagement for your managers and employees by bringing actionable insights as prompts into their flow of work.
    Import skills from your resume or LinkedIn profile Imports skills from resumes and LinkedIn profiles of employees.
    Validated skills Managers validate the skill proficiency level of employees in the Manager Hub and employees can see these validated skills on their skills profile.
    Add skills by using the skill recommender Enables your employees to search for skills that they’re interested in developing or improving and then adding them to their skills profile.