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SkillsTx SaaS solution 100% conformancy list

Owned by Graham Kennedy
Apr 08, 2019
3 min read

  • Individual self-assessment against the latest version of SFIA, the Skills Framework for the Information Age (currently at version 7)

    • Ability to separately assess each SFIA Level of Responsibility characteristic (Autonomy, Influence, Complexity, Knowledge, and Business Skills), so that an individual can select different levels for each characteristic and separately assess them independently of the SFIA Professional Skills and Levels

    • Ability to assess and include relevant skills from the 102 professional skills described in SFIA7

      • No limit on the number of SFIA skills that can be included

      • Ability to include multiple levels of each skill to reflect all levels at which that skill is practiced by the individual

      • Best practice alignment to provide different levels of matching – not just a binary yes/no, but a graduated assessment in line with ISO/IEC 15504 or ISO 33000 standard principles such as Fully (85%+ match) or Largely (50-85% match)

      • Ability to include skills and mark them as ‘Previously’ to distinguish them from current and up-to-date skills

      • Ability to capture comments against each skill-at-a-level assessed, so that relevant notes can be included in the individual skills profile

      • Ability to capture organisationally-specific skill attributes, aligned to SFIA skills, to allow assessment of additional information beyond the SFIA scope/content – such as methodologies, technologies, or specific programming languages

    • A structured intelligent self-assessment which guides the individual through SFIA

  • Ability for an individual to update and maintain their own SFIA skills profile after the initial data capture through self-assessment

  • Ability to assess external recruitment candidates, to provide a skills assessment as part of the recruitment process supporting short-listing and interview decisions

  • Automated notification, reminders, and tracking of self-assessment for employees and external recruitment candidates

  • Ability for individuals to see their match and gaps between their own skills profile and a set of defined SFIA Role Profiles and/or Job Descriptions developed for the customer organisation

  • Job/Role definition capability supporting people with little SFIA experience to create and maintain SFIA-based Job Descriptions and/or Role Profiles

    • Jobs/Roles must be able to be defined in the following way:

      • No limit on the number of SFIA skills that can be included

      • Ability to include multiple levels of each skill to reflect all levels at which that skill needs to be practiced by any individual performing the job/role

      • Ability to distinguish between ‘required’ and ‘desirable’ skills, including differences between levels for the same skill

      • Ability to include skill attributes to define information beyond SFIA, such as methodologies, technologies, or specific programming languages which may be required by a job/role

  • Optional skill endorsement

    • Support for 360-degree input from managers and colleagues

    • Support for skill assessment by internal assessors or managers

    • Support for external independent endorsement/certification by SFIA Accredited Consultants

  • Skill gap analysis and candidate matching

  • Career development action planning

  • Predefined actions mapped to SFIA for inclusion in individual’s development action plans – for example training from external training providers, or company-specific training or interventions

  • Analytics - Both organisational and management levels

  • Current/Future and Proposed job matching

  • Support all SFIA language versions and incorporates the official translations from the SFIA Foundation

  • Integration and interfacing options to general HR platforms

  • GDPR compliant

  • Automated reporting

  • Inclusion of sample job profiles to use as templates, if required

  • Ability to include 3rd party training portfolios mapped to SFIA, and present these to individuals for inclusion in their own development action plans

  • Bulk upload and update capability for user details, skill attributes, and organisational relationship data

  • Ability to export data for use in external analysis – spreadsheets and other analytics tools

  • Single sign-on and integration options

  • Access control based on permissions and data

  • Ability to add own brand/logo to personalise the workforce experience

  • Automated notifications for missed actions etc. to keep employees engaged

  • Dashboard views for keeping track of activity

  • Able to be used by internal staff and provide access to SFIA Accredited Consultants who may be providing external support

  • Support for the following role types:

    • Internal workers with the Digital, IT, Cybersecurity, Business Analysis, Project Management and other skills described by SFIA

    • Managers and Team Leaders who will need to collaborate with workers to help keep their skills profiles and development action plans up-to-date

    • Senior Managers and Executives from IT, HR and other departments, who need access to analytics data for various purposes

    • SFIA Accredited Consultants providing consultancy and training support to an organisation