A Systematic and Usable System for Skills

Building a successful skills-based approach requires robust scientific foundations. Find a consistent way to describe, map, and measure skills through data that you can trust.

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Evidence-Based Skills Taxonomy

The first step in any skills journey is to find a common language to describe and map skills. In SHL’s Universal Competency Framework, there is a taxonomy of 96 skills, making it organized and usable for decision-making, while being scientific and comprehensive.

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Science You Can Trust

The talent decisions that you make are only as good as the data used to inform them. Skills data can be collected in a number of ways, but AI inferred data, manager ratings, and self-reporting methods do not result in truly objective, reliable or reusable data. Collect skills data you can trust with SHL.

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Reusable Skills Data

Your business strategy will change and how you position your talent will evolve with it. Use your captured skills data again and again to maximize productivity organization-wide. Data will enable you to reuse the abilities of individuals and teams, across different scenarios.

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Our Solutions

Start the journey with SHL

Whether you are simply creating consistency in jobs or re-architecting work to drive productivity, a successful transition towards a skills-based approach starts with incremental change.

Build a skills-based organization with confidence, with SHL’s science, experience, and validated tools behind you. SHL’s solutions contain an array of assessments and tools that make embedding a skills-first strategy across the employee lifecycle simpler than ever before. Working within our solutions means that you can turn skills data into actionable insights for all hiring, mobility, and development decisions.

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Graduate Hiring

Early career hiring is your foundation for a sustainable, future-proof workforce. Build a talent marketplace to feed the pipeline of roles you must fill in the coming years.

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Volume Hiring

It takes a lot to truly captivate the attention of great candidates. Keep them engaged with a standout experience and use assessments to efficiently gather talent intelligence.

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Professional Hiring

Engage and secure professional talent to build a strong pipeline and drive future success.

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Competency Fit Insights

Measure the competencies of individuals, teams, and your entire organization.

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Start Your Skills Journey Today

Choose SHL for science-backed skills data that empowers effective talent placement. Activate the skills you need, when you need them.

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