Evaluate Your Skills with Skills Audit

What Is Skills Audit?

It can be described as a process of identifying skills and skill gaps among the persons in an organization. Through this, we can analyze the training needs and detect where should need training. It defines how to achieve goals of an organization. Without this information, we can't identify exact places where need improvement within an organization.  

There Are Two Types of Skill Audits;

01. Individual skills audit

This evaluates whether individual employees have the skills and knowledge required for a particular job that they are completing or could complete. It is often a common feature of an induction program.

02. Group skills audit

It uses when a business decides to carry out a skill audit across a team, department or whole organization.

Advantages of Skill Audit

• Better focusing on the places where need training and improvement

• Helps to identify a list of employees who need training

• Helps for internal selections

• Helps to describe expected recruit properly and to identify that person correctly

• Provides information for dynamic succession planning 

Different Types of Skills

01. Analytical Skills: - These skills are referred to the ability to collect and analyze information, problem solves, and make decisions. 

Communication

This means you should be able to explain information orally, in a meeting or presentation, and need to have the ability to write reports. You should have strong oral and written communication skills.

Creativity 

You should take a creative eye to spot trends in data. During problem-solving situations you should have a creative eye and ability think outside the box to solve problems.

Critical Thinking 

You should be able to evaluate information and make decisions according to your findings. It helps for problem-solving.

Data Analysis

You should be good at examine a large volume of data and find new trends in those data. Other than just reading and understanding you have to make sense of it and need to find patterns of the data.

Research 

You should have to collect data or information before the analyzing it. It means before solving a problem you need to understand everything about the problem.  

02. Language Skills: - There are four language skills we need for complete communication.

Listening

You should give good attention to what you are listening, as well as you should have a good reflection for it. You should have the ability to understand what other people are really trying to say.

Speaking

You should have the ability to speak clearly, and a way of others get the idea easily without misunderstanding. You should be able to convey the message in a passionate, thoughtful and convincing manner.

Reading

You should be able to read and understand the things in various documents including diagrams, directories, manuals, records, correspondence, charts, graphs, tables, and specifications.

Writing

You should have effective writing skills to write memos, letters, reports, bulletins, job descriptions, employee manuals, e mails, instant messages, etc. You should have a good style, wide business vocabulary and also good grammar knowledge.

03. Technical Skills: - Those are special abilities and knowledge needed to perform specific tasks. They are practical. They require training and experience.        

Big Data Analysis

You should be good at collecting data, organizing them, and interpret that data. 

Coding & Programming

You need to have abilities for coding, and to understand multiple programming languages. It differs according to the Job.

Project Management

You should be good at managing projects. It means you should be a good at being a leader, delegating tasks, measuring the success of each project.

Social Media Experience

You need to have experience with certain media platforms. So you can face the competition coming from others.

Technical Writing 

You should be able to explain complex things in a clear way to understand easily.

04. Professional Skills: - These are skills need to succeed in professional practice. These skills are related to the employee’s field. You can obtain professional skills through formal and informal education, job training and life experiences.           

Communication Skills

You should have the ability to communicate effectively. It means you should have good assertive communication skills, listening skills, non-verbal communication skills, written and oral communication skills, etc.

Decision Making Skills

You should have good decision-making skills. It means you should be able to make simple decisions as well as difficult or complicated decisions. You have to learn and improve them.

Leadership Skills

They are a combination of many skills or abilities that allow you to lead, to motivate, to inspire, to create. E.g.: -Analytical skills, conflict resolution abilities, creativity and creative thinking, organization skills, etc. 

Organizational Skills

It means you should be good at general planning, coordinating resources, and meeting deadlines.

Time Management Skills

It means you should be good at managing limited time effectively. E.g.: - setting goals, prioritizing goals, scheduling, making lists, using optimization tools. 

Flexibility

You should be able to adopt effectively for changing situations and environments.

Stress Management Skills

You have to control and manage your stress. Do not let stress to reflect your job and tasks.

You can use these tools and evaluate your Skills, I will include a Practical Skill Audit on another Blog Post. 

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https://www.cognology.com.au/learning_center/sawhatis/

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