Assessment and Competency Frameworks
Optimise your recruitment and talent management
In an ever-changing labour market, companies face increasing challenges in identifying the best talent. If you want to recruit successfully and put in place the elements that will ensure a good match between the candidate, the company and the job, skills assessment has become a central part of the process. This professional snapshot identifies not only the technical skills required for a particular job, but also the soft skills that will determine long-term success in the position.
Given the diversity of professions and profiles, using reliable and appropriate assessment tools gives you a clear vision of the strengths and development potential of your candidates. A well-structured approach will help you make informed decisions. You can be sure of sustainable, high-performance recruitment.
Over the years, Actual Talent has developed tools to meet your specific needs. Thanks to our methodical approach and our know-how in human resources, we can help you structure your recruitment and talent development effectively.
Assessing professional skills so you don’t get it wrong again
- Optimised recruitment: you define profiles precisely and assess candidates objectively. You benefit from a better match between the skills you’re looking for and the real needs of the job.
- Improved talent management: you can clearly identify the skills you need to develop and plan targeted training. Internal mobility and professional development are smoother.
- Organisational performance: you align individual skills with corporate objectives. You improve productivity through better use of talent.
- Greater fairness and transparency: Your assessment criteria are objective and uniform for all employees, providing a solid basis for pay and promotion decisions.
- Easier internal communication: you create a common language around skills throughout the organisation. You develop a better understanding of everyone’s roles and responsibilities.
improvement in employee performance using a skills repository
of companies update their reference systems every 2 to 3 years.
months on average to set up a skills repository
What is a competency framework?
Skills assessment is a process for measuring and analysing an employee’s skills, knowledge and behaviour in a professional context. It is based on a skills repository, which is a structured tool that lists all the skills required for different positions or functions within an organisation.
This repository serves as a common basis for defining expectations, analysing performance, identifying training needs and guiding professional development. It generally includes a detailed description of each skill, associated performance indicators and expected levels of proficiency. The result is more equitable human resources management that is aligned with the company’s strategic objectives.
You need to assess the skills if…
Skills assessment can be used in a number of situations:
- Recruitment: particularly for strategic or management positions, measuring soft skills enables you to ensure that the candidate has the behavioural qualities needed to lead a team or manage complex projects.
- Internal mobility: you get the information you need about the match between employees who have been promoted or repositioned and the skills and knowledge required for the new role.
- Talent management: you identify training needs and structure development paths in line with your objectives.
- Organisational transformation or merger: align human resources with new requirements and ensure a smooth transition.
Assessing professional skills so you don’t get it wrong again
The assessment of skills, particularly soft skills, is a strategic lever for companies seeking to maximise their performance and ensure sustainable recruitment in different business areas. By using a rigorous assessment in your recruitment procedures, you can not only identify the most suitable candidates for the job requirements, but also significantly reduce errors and turnover.
Precise measurement of the match between candidate profiles and job expectations, taking behavioural skills into account, is often decisive for long-term success in a professional environment.
These profile analyses also facilitate the integration of new employees, by creating a more harmonious fit with your professional culture and encouraging a more rapid and effective rise in skills.
Continuous assessment, combined with jointly developed competency frameworks, helps to optimise career paths, identify training needs and ensure proactive talent management in support of your performance.
You’re unique – create your own skills repository
At Actual Talent, we have developed a method to help you build a tailor-made skills repository that is perfectly aligned with your organisation’s specific needs. This three-stage approach takes into account your professional culture and strategic goals. Find out more about our unique approach to improving your performance.
STEP 1
Interviews
We start with in-depth interviews with professionals in different roles within your company. This initial work enables us to understand the skills that are essential to each function and to identify the behaviours that promote performance. This 360° approach provides a complete and contextualised view of the expectations for each function.
STEP 2
Co-construction workshop
Next, we run participative workshops in which those involved in your project work together to build a skills framework and a management charter. These workshops are designed to encourage buy-in from all participants, ensuring that the reference framework is not only pragmatic, but also faithful to your values and DNA. This collective involvement ensures that the document is relevant and that everyone can make it their own.
STEP 3
Getting started
Once the framework has been defined, we can help you put it into practice. We integrate the framework into the heart of your HR processes, for recruitment, internal mobility or professional training. Thanks to this operational anchoring, you can structure your talent management and make it more coherent. You can promote the development of skills within your organisation and the achievement of your strategic objectives.
This method allows you to build a repository that is not only complete and operational, but also perfectly adapted to your changing needs and the requirements of each position.
It’s now possible to assess professional skills quickly and accurately
In an increasingly competitive job market, you need to quickly identify the candidates who best match the requirements of the job, both technically and behaviourally. Our tool offers a fast, reliable assessment of the soft skills that determine success and satisfaction in every job.
This online test simplifies and optimises the analysis of behavioural skills, an aspect that is often underestimated, yet crucial. 80% of trial periods are terminated due to behavioural mismatches between the candidate and the company. It’s now possible to avoid recruitment errors and a high turnover rate by taking an accurate snapshot of your candidates’ soft skills.
In just 8 minutes, our tool assesses candidates’ soft skills by comparing their profile with a reference group made up of the best for each position. You’ll know straight away which candidates will perform well and thrive in your environment. Your recruitment is smoother and more efficient.
Actual Talent, a major player in sustainable recruitment
Actual Talent is now positioned as a key player in the field of sustainable recruitment, thanks to its recognised expertise and an innovative approach based on personalised support for companies.
- HR expertise: we provide you with a team of human resources experts who can help you define and assess the key skills that will make the difference in your organisation. Our in-depth knowledge of professions and behavioural skills enables us to offer you a tailor-made service, adapted to your specific needs.
- Putting people first: in addition to our skills-based solutions, we place a strong human dimension at the heart of all our assignments. We support you in defining your recruitment and skills management strategies, helping you to anticipate your organisation’s future needs. Thanks to our personalised approach and our knowledge of market trends, we can guide you to optimise your recruitment and maximise the potential of your talent. You’re no longer on your own when it comes to successful recruitment.
- A participative approach: our approach is based on the active involvement of your teams at every stage of the project, ensuring that the skills framework developed is both relevant and fully shared. By involving your staff in the process, we ensure that they take full ownership of the systems and methods. This involvement promotes optimum alignment with your company’s culture and goals.
- High-performance tools: we integrate cutting-edge tools such as SAVEN for a fast, accurate and impartial soft skills process. These tools, combined with our expertise, enable you to make informed decisions about recruitment and talent management.
- Training and development: we support you in developing your training plans to structure your skills management policy. By training your staff in best practice and ensuring that their skills continue to evolve, we help to improve your company’s overall performance and keep your teams happy.
With Actual Talent, you benefit from comprehensive support in building a robust and scalable skills repository. This repository enables you to guarantee optimum management of your talent, by aligning their professional development with your company’s strategic objectives.
We look forward to hearing from you.
TOGETHER, LET’S TURN YOUR TALENT MANAGEMENT INTO A SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE DRIVER.
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THE QUESTIONS YOU MOST OFTEN ASK US ABOUT SKILLS FRAMEWORKS
A skills repository is a document or tool that describes the skills required for different positions within an organisation. It includes both the technical and behavioural skills needed to succeed in each job.
A skills repository enables you to align the skills of your employees with your strategic objectives. It facilitates recruitment, talent management and training planning, and ensures a better match between your expectations and your employees’ capabilities.
The construction of a skills reference framework involves several stages:
- Integration: implementing the reference framework in HR processes, recruitment, training and career management
- Needs analysis: identify the essential skills for each position based on your objectives
- Gathering information: interviewing and observing professionals working in different professions to understand the skills required
- Co-construction: organising participatory workshops to draw up the reference framework with key players
A well-constructed repository enables you to :
- structuring career paths,
- standardise recruitment criteria,
- identify skills gaps,
- plan appropriate training.
It provides a clear basis for assessing candidates, by defining the key skills required for the job and the position. It helps you to select profiles that match not only the technical requirements, but also the company’s culture and values.
A job description describes the tasks and responsibilities of a specific position, while a skills repository defines the skills and behaviours expected for different positions within your organisation. The repository gives you a more global and integrated view of the skills you need.
Once the framework has been developed, it needs to be integrated into HR processes. We train HR teams and managers in the use of the framework to ensure full and effective adoption.
Building a skills repository is always a pivotal moment in a company’s development. Here are some of the challenges that can arise, but which, if properly anticipated, will not hold you back:
- the need to adjust the standards in line with changes in the company and market requirements,
- the difficulty of identifying the specific skills required for each job,
- the involvement of all the key players.
Regular revision of the repository ensures that it remains relevant to market developments, changing business needs and the latest trends. Updates can be carried out annually or when major changes are made to the organisation.
Talent management platforms, HR management software and specialist tools can facilitate the construction, integration and effective use of a skills repository.