Navigating a Skills-Based Approach to Talent Development: How To Leverage the Hidden Benefits

In implementing a career marketplace and skills-based learning, DPDHL have discovered a number of unexpected benefits! These smaller and sometimes hidden benefits are worth sharing to support others in their implementation and change activities. These include:
 

• Vital insight into skills gaps 
• Stronger line of sight to the skills and experiences existing in the total talent pool (internal and external), enabling people to be matched with jobs and projects 
• The opportunity to design career paths based on skills and adjacent skills that will enable people to understand and navigate a career that suits them 
• Greater transparency in talent processes—skills become a common currency on which to base job selection, development and certification, reward, and career progression 
• An enterprise-wide approach to skills between talent and other vital HC processes