Competency management solutions from Profiles International will help you determine the optimal way to leverage employee skills for maximum performance.
Competency management is becoming increasingly important as organizations seek to align their workforce with business objectives. According to recent research, the most important action companies are taking to achieve their employee performance management goals is “aligning individual employee performance to corporate business objectives,” as reported by 63% of companies surveyed.
By implementing competency management solutions, organizations are able to identify and understand the core competencies of top performers. They can then use that information to make better hiring decisions, plan career paths and improve the overall performance of the organization.
Profiles International’s competency management solutions help businesses answer the question, “Can an employee do the job?”
Competencies range from hard skills to soft skills, measuring specific industry and functional knowledge, and asks the following questions:
- Do they have the right skills and knowledge necessary to successfully execute the job?
- Will they be effective?
- Will they be a highly productive and engaged top performer?
While skill and knowledge competencies are useful in predicting an employee’s ability to do a job, they provide little insight into how effective they will be in that job. For example, you may find that three employees have identical skill sets and knowledge competencies, yet they produce three different levels of performance. Just because someone has the required skills and knowledge does not mean that they will be a highly productive, engaged top performer.
Profiles International’s competency management solutions are focused on helping you measure and understand the core characteristics of employees and/or job candidates.
Job performance is often driven by “soft skills” or the “core characteristics” of the person. Core characteristics define things like thinking style, behavioral traits and occupational interests. These characteristics are used to predict how a person will behave in a job, and have a high level of correlation with performance.
Profiles competency management solutions will identify the core characteristics that make your current top performers successful. With this information, you will be able to:
- Measure job candidates and current employees against the core characteristics of top performers
- Identify, hire and develop more top performers
- Predict job fit and probability for success between employee and job
- Understand fit with managers, team members and the organization
Profiles International’s competency management solutions offer more than just data. We focus only on the characteristics that make a difference in performance for your company and your jobs. These are the same characteristics that have been proven to be the key indicators of successful performance based on analysis of over 900,000 people worldwide. Based on these characteristics, we are able to provide actionable information that you can use in hiring, development and performance management decisions.
Learn about competency management solutions from Profiles International.