Job Skills Model

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A job skills model, also known as a skills and competency model or competency framework, provides talent management and HR with a common language and set of expectations for success. Often organizations lack the time, resources, or expertise to develop and maintain a customized model from scratch.

Salary.com's new Skills & Competency Model – the industry's most comprehensive, up-to-date database of jobs, skills, competencies, and proficiencies, now integrated with JobArchitect software – helps you build and maintain your company’s customized model, simplify job structure, inform recruiting and internal mobility, align compensation with performance, and create strategic career pathways.

View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills & Competencies for more than 15,000 Job Titles, 18 Industries, and 26 Job Families.

The Precision You Need to Pay Equitably and Hire, Assess, and Develop Top Talent

Build Robust Job Profiles – Identify specific skills and competencies necessary for an individual to perform given responsibilities of a job. Each competency has five to ten observable behavioral statements with assigned level of proficiency required (1 to 5) for a specific job.

Map Powerful Skills Taxonomy to Jobs – Create a skills-based job architecture with required competencies and a job hierarchy showing job family evolution.

Support Internal Mobility Programs – Map competencies to a specific job profile to shed light on training and experience needed to grow and retain talent. Assess employee performance and prescribe learning and development path to support career growth.

Hire With Confidence – Add competencies from our robust library to job descriptions to attract and screen candidates with the right skillset. Close capability gaps by defining and identifying the skills needed by your organization for continued growth.

Match Similar Jobs and Remove Bias – Support pay equity initiatives and skills-based pay by quickly grouping similar jobs or employee groups with objective-based competencies.

Receive Up to Date, Peer-Reviewed Data – Experienced PhD data scientists and certified compensation experts regularly maintain, validate, and update our model.

JobArchitect Integration

Using Salary.com’s Skills & Competency Model with JobArchitect, our job description management tool offers organizations the most comprehensive, up-to-date skills and competency data and software to hire, assess, and develop top talent to fill the skills gap:
  • Build a job hierarchy showing relationship and evolution of required skills and competencies in a job family.
  • Add competencies from our robust library to job descriptions to attract and screen candidates with the right skillset.
  • Identify specific skills & competencies necessary for an individual to perform given responsibilities of a job.
  • Map competencies to a specific job profile to shed light on training and experience needed to grow and retain employees.

Get Started with the new Skills & Competency Model Today

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