Career Pathing Archives - Skills Base https://www.skills-base.com/tag/career-pathing Skills Base Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:10:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.skills-base.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-Skills-Base-Website-Icon-32x32.png Career Pathing Archives - Skills Base https://www.skills-base.com/tag/career-pathing 32 32 184397392 20 million skills assessed & counting | Update July 2022 https://www.skills-base.com/20-million-skills-assessed-counting-skills-base-july-update-2022 Mon, 25 Jul 2022 23:12:36 +0000 https://www.skills-base.com/?p=11300 There are certain milestones as a business when you have to stop for a second and reflect. For us, we…

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There are certain milestones as a business when you have to stop for a second and reflect. For us, we have reached a staggering 20 million skills assessed on the Skills Base platform — which is growing by the week. 

It’s evident that teams and organizations require a better way to manage skills — and spreadsheets simply don’t cut it. Also with markets moving the way they are there has never been a more important time to focus on the people that matter most:

  • How do we develop people in the right way?
  • How do we allocate people to work that makes sense to them, and the customer?
  • How do we retain people by delivering an exceptional human experience?
  • How do we acquire the right skills into roles not from external sources, but through internal mobility?

The Answer? By understanding, measuring and acting on skills.

Kicking things off, welcome to the team!

As our product and customer base grow, we’re also happy to grow the team with it. A warm welcome to: 

  • Daniel (Danny) Jaoude 🇱🇧 has come on board as a customer success manager supporting our many European Customers. 
  • Marc Luvshis 🇺🇸 has come on board as a customer success manager supporting our North American customers. 
  • Nathaniel (Nate) Rogers 🇦🇺 joins us as a new software engineer out of Australia.

And without further ado, here’s a bunch of the features we’ve released to the Skills Base platform over the last 6 months. 

PS. We’ve also created a new page to document changes to the Skills Base platform. Head across and check it out. 🔗

New Feature

Career Mobility Insights

Whether you’re promoting a growth culture, trying to drive internal talent acquisition, or looking to retain key people, giving each individual the freedom and visibility to move within an organization has never been as important.

This is why we’re excited to have released the new feature Career Mobility Insights (find the video here 🔗). This feature provides transparency, and genuine learning pathways for individuals to move deeper into their area of specialization, or change entirely within the organization.  

When used along side the training module, each individual will also be automatically recommended training that will guide them towards their desired roles. 

New Feature

Salut to French Translations 🇫🇷

Joining English, Italian and German are the new French Translations for Skills Base. This is avaliable for all users and accounts so jump on in and take it for a spin.

Looking for additional translations for your teams? Just ask us about what’s next.

Skills Base French Translations

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Enhancement

Redesign and Refactoring of the Skills Base UI

In the previous 6 month product update blog we announced the migration towards a new design framework. This effort continued with the redesign and refactoring of the skills directory, teams and roles dashboards.

Skills Directory V2

Read some of our latest blogs

New Feature

HR Tech / HRIS integration - Phase 1

There is a new architecture within Skills Base for processing batch files from third-party systems. We are looking to roll this out in different phases, with the first being focused around different HR Systems.

We know there’s a lot out there, and we’ve been fortunate enough to work with a few of our customers to prove out the integration between Skills Base and Workday. 🤝

If you were interested with this integration, or looking for any others let the team know.

New Feature

Better data handling tools

With data privacy and security being a core focus of the Skills Base platform, we have introduced a new way (within the application) to share files between your organization and the Skills Base team.

New Feature

Add skills in one click

You can now use the “quick add skill” button to instantly insert skills into your skills taxonomy. 

New Feature

Cancel in progress self-assessments

Administrators now have greater control and can cancel in-progress self-assessments.

New Feature

Custom Fields For Courses

You can now attach custom fields to courses to ensure you’re capturing the right information. 

New Feature

Link local files to courses in Skills Base

Skills Base now allows training materials from ‘file’ URLs (e.g. Windows shares) instead of only web pages.

New Feature

Link Joplin URLs to courses in Skills Base

Skills Base now allows training materials from ‘joplin’ URLs.

Ps. Looking for access to different URLs and file types? Just reach out to the team and ask. 

New Feature

Export Training Trend Data to CSV

Need to further Analyze training outcomes and ROI? You can now find the curated report on the reporting page. 

Enhancement

Improved search functionality

When searching for data in a tree view, the results are now more responsive based on inputs. 

Enhancement

Qualification start / end filtering

Added the ability to filter qualifications by start and end dates.

Enhancement

Improved SAML Integration - Metadata

Added the ability to provide IDP metadata by specifying a URL rather than uploading a file. 

Enhancement

Improved SAML Integration - Multiple Configs.

Skills Base can now support multiple SSO configurations (auth providers) for an organization.

Enhancement

Improved Skill Trend reporting

With the new ability to add individual skills to people, the Skill Trend Dashboard and exports will now query each skill a person has assigned.

Enhancement

Improved PDF exports

When you export a PDF for an individual person, it will now indicate the data calculation method. (Self Assessment Data, Supervisor Assessment Data or Average Assessment Data)

Enhancement

People Finder data export controls

You can now disable data exports in People Finder via different Security Groups.

Still unsure where to start?

Our team is always ready to discuss how you can become skills-based.

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]]> 11300 The Importance of Career Skills Gap Analysis & How it Affects Internal Mobility https://www.skills-base.com/the-importance-of-career-skills-gap-analysis-how-it-affects-internal-mobility Fri, 22 Jul 2022 01:53:03 +0000 https://www.skills-base.com/?p=11382 As some jobs disappear, some change, business needs evolve, and good talent becomes more difficult to find, obtain, and retain,…

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As some jobs disappear, some change, business needs evolve, and good talent becomes more difficult to find, obtain, and retain, focusing on skill gaps and internal mobility is only becoming more crucial to the success of organizations around the world. 

Continual learning and upskilling is essential not only for the individual, but for the workforce at large. This is where analyzing skills gaps is essential. While it can seem like a large undertaking, once you have a process set up (along with some tools to help automate some of the process), finding gaps in career skills and helping staff upskill or fill gaps in teams becomes easy.

What is a skills gap analysis?

A skills gap analysis is a tool that helps organizations identify opportunities for training and internal mobility among staff and teams. It looks at where an individual, team, or organization is currently versus where you want or need to be in the future. 

From a high level, this means looking at the skills missing throughout the organization currently,  versus skills that will drive future success. From an individual level, it’s about identifying gaps in skills or skills that are untapped and how these align with your organization’s strategic objectives and priorities.

How to identify skills gaps

Conducting a data-driven skills gaps analysis requires a specific process to ensure it is streamlined, consistent, and easily repeatable. 

  1. Review strategic goals and objectives: Start from the top and think about what your organization is moving towards. Understanding this can help identify the skills needed to get there.
  2. Identify current skills of your workforce: Map the skills of your teams and individuals to see what the makeup of your workforce is currently.
  3. Assess and identify future skills: Now is the time to find those gaps. Test and rate skill levels and analyze this to find where individuals and teams can develop skills or learn new skills and close gaps.
  4. Create a way to close the gaps: Once you know the skills that are missing or need improving, the next step is to design a way to close them through training, development, internal mobility, or new talent.
  5. Repeat!: Businesses change and evolve all the time. It’s important to look for skills gaps regularly to see where staff can grow, learn, and evolve with changing industries and business needs.

We have a great checklist and timeline that goes into this process in further detail here.

The benefits of skills gaps analysis

There are lots of reasons why analyzing skills gaps is important. Not only does it help organizations understand how to build better workforces, but it also helps retain staff, reduce hiring and training costs, and increase overall profits. By identifying skills gaps and opportunities to upskill, you can create higher performing teams who are happier and more productive. This also means better internal mobility and more strategic recruitment in the future.

The best way to understand and fill skills gaps is by becoming a skills based organization. While it can seem overwhelming, if set up right, it can become a streamlined process with huge rewards. Enlisting the help of skills management software can help streamline this process further, so if you want to start acting on your skill gaps, book in a time to talk to the Skills Base team today!

Interested in learning more about skill gap analysis?

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