Skills Audits

• Clarity on the strengths and weaknesses of the most important asset in your organisation, - your people.
• Identification of high level development needs of personnel in order to accommodate future demands of the business.
• Identification of immediate opportunities to enhance human resource management processes.
• Refinement of an existing, or development of an interim competency framework.
• An insight into the medium and longer term opportunities to new business opportunities based on unused skills within your workforce.
• Benchmarking of personnel against global standards.

It is important to distinguish between the term appraisal and assessment. Appraisal is a more subjective, high level review process. Assessment is a more objective, detailed evaluation process. For speed and cost considerations, a skills audit usually employs an appraisal process. In practice this will mean the use of questionnaires, combined with interviews of a sample of personnel from different parts of the company. Your own, or a suitable alternative competency framework will be used for benchmarking purposes. Where necessary, a more thorough assessment of key personal can be made using occupational testing.