The Skills Management Revolution: one-year, two-year, and three-year predictions
Steve Hunt
Helping companies achieve success through integrating business strategy, workforce psychology, and HR technology. Author of the books Talent Tectonics, Commonsense Talent Management, and Hiring Success.
“I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.”
- Napoleon Dynamite
The recent development of machine learning enabled technology solutions for skills management has been positioned as something that will revolutionize talent management and fundamentally alter organizational design. But will it? This is an educated guess at how skills management is likely to evolve over the coming years and what this means for companies using skills management technology. The following outlines what is covered in the paper for those who might want to skip to a certain section:
Section 1. What is skills management and why is it getting so much attention? How changes in demographics, work, and technology are driving adoption of skills management solutions that make use of labor market, organizational, and employee focused skills ontologies.
Section 2. How will new skills management solutions reshape the nature of work and organizations? A look at 1, 2 and 3-year predictions about the future of skills management and how to prepare for them.
Concluding Thoughts and 3 Immediate Next Steps
Section 1. What is skills management and why is it getting so much attention?
Skills management refers to processes to ensure employees have the knowledge and technical expertise to execute an organization’s business strategy. How someone performs their job depends on what they want to do and what they can do. What people want to do depends on their work motives and career goals. What people can do depends on the skills they have acquired through training, experience, and self-development. Anyone who has listened to karaoke or played golf is aware of the difference between wanting to do something and having the skills to be good at it. Skills management focuses on understanding the skills a company’s workforce must possess to execute its strategy and supporting actions to ensure employees possess the skills needed to be successful in their roles. Skills management involves three linked but distinct activities: 1) analyzing what skills are critical to a company’s performance and growth; 2) discovering what skills employees, job candidates, and potential job candidates currently possess or could effectively learn, and 3) applying skills information to guide workforce planning, job design, staffing, development, and other talent management activities.
Skills management is one of the oldest forms of talent management. For example, the Chinese empire used structured methods to assess skills of government administrators in the 3rd century BC. There are two reasons why skills management is currently receiving increased attention. The first is about business challenges. Companies are increasing emphasis on skills management to deal with changes caused by the talent tectonic forces of digitalization and demographics. The digitalization of work is accelerating demand for new and often highly specialized skills, while demographic shifts are shrinking the relative size of the labor markets companies can access to find skilled talent. As a result, companies need to be more effective at forecasting shifting skill demands and recruiting and developing employees to ensure their workforces have the skills to execute their business strategies.
The second reason for increased focus on skills management is the advent of new technological applications that are vastly improving effectiveness of skills management solutions. HR technology vendors have been providing skills management solutions for decades. These solutions help companies ensure the workforce has the right skills to support business needs through three basic functionalities:
Skills management solutions historically suffer from two basic problems. The first problem is maintaining skills libraries that companies can use to define job descriptions, guide workforce planning activities, set salary levels, screen job candidates, and build training programs[i]. Thousands of skills influence performance of jobs within a single industry. Furthermore, these skills constantly change as the nature of work evolves. Traditional skills libraries took a long time to create and were often outdated by the time they were built. The second problem is difficulty linking the skills in a company’s library to the skills possessed by employees and job candidates. This is because there is no standardized way to talk about skills. For example, a company might have a job requiring “statistical analysis” skills while a candidate might say they have “Expertise in SAS”. SAS is a form of statistical analysis software, so an employee with SAS expertise is likely to have statistical skills. But because they did not define the skill using the same language, the company’s skills management solution cannot make this connection.
Both of these problems are being addressed through new technology solutions that manage skills using machine learning developed skills ontologies. Skills ontology solutions use natural language parsing algorithms to analyze and organize digital information about skills found in public and private databases such as job descriptions, resumes, and myriads of other sources. This enables much faster and accurate analysis of company skill demands and employee and candidate skill levels than was possible in the past. Appendix 1 provides more information about why skills ontologies are better than the hierarchical taxonomies previously used for skills management. Appendix 2 provides an overview of the types of data that being incorporated into these skills ontologies and their strengths and potential limitations.
Companies are using these new skills management solutions to build three basic kinds of ontologies:
Labor Market Ontologies that describe the types of skills found in different labor markets. These are primarily used to guide talent intelligence activities such as determining where to locate production facilities based on skills found in the local workforce, gaining insight into market and competitor activities based on shifts in demand for different kinds of skills, and setting compensation levels based on skill supply and demand.
Organizational Ontologies that describe the skills a company needs to run current and future business operations. These are primarily used for workforce planning and strategy development taking into account the skills the company currently possesses or will need to acquire to support its business objectives.
Employee, Candidate and Contractor Ontologies that profile the skills individual employees, candidates, and contractors possess or could potentially learn given their past experiences, qualifications, and accomplishments. These are primarily used to support candidate sourcing and selection, workforce scheduling, internal talent movement, employee training and development, and employee compensation.
These three types of ontologies share similarities but are created using somewhat different data sources and are constructed based on different design concepts. While a single skills management solution might incorporate elements related to all three types of ontologies, most current solutions focus on subset of these ontologies based on whether the solution was primarily designed to support talent intelligence, workforce planning, staffing, development, or compensation. It is important to stress that these ontologies are only one part of what makes the new generation of skills management solutions so powerful. An equally critical part of these solutions is specialized application functionality that enables users to effectively apply skills data found in these ontologies to make talent decisions.
Section 2. How will new skills management solutions reshape the nature of work and organizations?
The HR field is prone to predictions claiming that some technological innovation is going to radically change work. This has been true occasionally. For example, the creation of internet platforms and mobile technology has radically reduced the influence geographic location of employees has on the design and structure of organizations. But the impact of most technological innovations is limited to improving certain aspects of HR without radically changing work overall. Should we expect the current trend around skills management to be any different? My view is probably not in the short-term but perhaps in the long term, assuming we can overcome critical issues related to evaluating skills proficiency, managing workforce costs, and shifting cultural expectations related to job design. The following are thoughts on how skills management might evolve over 1-year, 2-year, and 3-year time horizons and suggestions on how companies can position themselves to take advantage of these changes.
1-year forecast (circa 2025). Companies will rapidly adopt skills ontology solutions for specific needs.
Scores of HR technology vendors incorporated skills ontologies into their solutions over the past few years. Many of these vendors hope their ontologies will become the primary source of skills data for organizations. I doubt this will happen in the short term. Instead, companies are likely to use multiple skills ontologies to support different kinds of applications including:
Recruiting Solutions that use skills ontologies to source and match job candidates to job positions.
Contractor Solutions that use skills ontologies to identify and hire contractors for positions.
Staffing & Scheduling Solutions the use skills ontologies to ensure projects and work shifts are staffed with people possessing the qualifications needed to perform different roles.
Talent Marketplace Solutions that use skills ontologies to help employees identify internal career development opportunities and transition to new roles within the organization.
Workforce Planning & Talent Intelligence Solutions that use skills ontologies to forecast workforce staffing models and potential talent risks based on the company’s business strategy, existing workforce skills, and external labor market skills availability.
Learning Solutions that use skills ontologies to link employees to training courses and materials based on their current capabilities, job requirements, and future career goals.
Compensation Solutions that use skills ontologies to recommend compensation levels based on the changing supply, demand, and market value of different job relevant skills.
While these solutions all use skills ontologies, there are significant differences in how the ontologies are built, the skills data they use, and the end-user functionality they provide to support use of skills information.
Skills ontologies are not built through blind application of machine learning. They require input from experts who understand the nature of the organization and its workforce, the structure of external labor markets, and the nature of problems being addressed. How ontologies are designed can change based on whether they are built to support recruiting, development, learning, workforce planning, or compensation. The data used to build ontologies also changes based on their function. For example, workforce planning ontologies may incorporate information about business strategies that would not make sense for recruiting or learning ontologies. Some of this data may be sensitive, and an organization might not want to co-mingle it across different vendor ontologies. The end-user features incorporated into skills management solutions also differs based on their function. For example, features related to candidate management are necessary to make a recruiting skills ontology useful. But such features are not relevant for a skills ontology designed for workforce planning. Given the expertise needed to build different types of skills management solutions it is unlikely, at least in the near term, that any single skills ontology will cover all the ways companies want to use skills data.
Actions to take in 2024 to prepare for 2025 – implement skills ontologies that address your most pressing challenges. The skills ontologies currently available in the market can significantly improve how companies forecast, recruit, and develop talent. Companies that adopt new skills management solutions will have an advantage competing for talent against other organizations, at least until these solutions become widely adopted everywhere. Adopting skills ontologies also enables companies to build the internal capabilities and datasets needed to maximize the value of these powerful but complicated tools. When choosing what skills ontologies to adopt, focus on solutions that address the company’s most pressing needs whether this is workforce planning, recruitment, development, learning, or compensation. And recognize that at least for the next few years, it is unlikely that any single ontology can fully support every type of skills management application.
2-year forecast (circa 2026). Companies will need validated “system of record” skills ontologies.
Two issues are likely to emerge as companies make greater use of skills ontologies. The first is the need to manage skills data across different applications. The second is the need to monitor and ensure accuracy of skills data used for high-stakes talent decisions related to hiring, staffing, workforce design, and compensation. Both issues could drive development of a new type of ontology specifically designed to act as a company’s skills system of record. The primary function of system of record ontologies is to enable secure and efficient tracking and sharing of skills data between different skill management applications, and to ensure skills data accurately reflects employee proficiency levels and qualifications.
The main purpose of a system of record ontology is to manage the import and sharing of skills data across different workforce management solutions. This includes providing data to HR processes that use skills but do not require having their own skills ontologies (e.g., succession management reviews, job certification requirements). System of record ontologies could be used to:
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Manage data integrity. Cleansing and modifying employee skills data to meet corporate standards related to skill definitions and proficiency levels. For example, verifying that employees who are identified as having a skill based on a third-party ontology have adequately demonstrated their ability to effectively apply that skill in a work setting.
Ensure company security. Making sure skills data is managed in a way that protects company confidentiality. This could involve limiting vendor access to certain data or coding and sharing data in a manner that hides sensitive information. Examples include limiting access to skills data associated with internal company communications or business strategies.
Protect employee confidentiality. Protecting employee rights and expectations related to who is able to access and use data reflecting their personal skills and experiences. An example is evaluating employees’ career development potential based on data reflecting events that happened before the employee was hired. Skills data collected by a recruiting skills ontology during the hiring process might be viewed as inappropriate for an internal talent marketplace ontology because it does not provide an accurate reflection of employees’ current capabilities or interests.
Maintain corporate independence. Companies may be wary about losing control of their employee skills data to a skills management vendor. If a company provides data to a vendor to build a skills ontology, it may want the vendor to provide data back to the company about its workforce skills. Doing this can be complicated given the intellectual property embedded into the design of skills ontologies. It requires importing data from proprietary skills ontologies in a manner that respects vendors’ rights while ensuring the company has adequate control over its own workforce data.
One of the most challenging and critical functions of system of record ontologies will be validating and certifying skills data. This is particularly true for skills proficiency. It is far easier to determine if a person has any skills experience than it is to evaluate what they gained from that experience. This is akin to the difference between asking someone if they have done something compared to asking if they are good at doing it (e.g., “have you ever managed a project?” versus “are you a good project manager?”).
Ensuring the accuracy of skills data is potentially the single biggest threat to the future evolution of skills management. The more companies use skills data to make “high stakes” talent decisions affecting workforce budget allocations, hiring decisions, promotions, and compensation the greater the need to ensure this data is accurate. Skills ontologies use complicated mathematical methods to assess employee qualifications and potential. The accuracy of these models is not guaranteed. It depends on the quality of data fed into the solutions. This data often comes from employees, managers or candidates who could intentionally or unintentionally misrepresent their capabilities and experiences. Skills ontology algorithms can also draw inaccurate conclusions about the value or nature of skills as a result of idiosyncrasies of their design or the data they are analyzing. Similar to how generative AI solutions can “hallucinate” answers to questions.
It is ineffective, counterproductive, and unfair to make workforce decisions based on inaccurate skills data. Whatever the cause of data inaccuracy, companies will need to find ways to address it. This includes being able defend criticism from candidates and employees regarding the use of skills management ontologies. Companies might even be legally required to show why staffing, development and compensation decisions based on skills management systems are more accurate and fairer than other methods companies might use to make talent decisions that impact people’s careers and lives.
Actions to take in 2024 to prepare for 2026 – investigate methods to create a system of record skills ontology and validate the accuracy of skills data. The skills ontologies a company uses will vary based on company needs and resources. But all companies will eventually want a single system of record skills ontology to manage skills data in an accurate, secure, and independent manner. This system of record ontology should be designed to interface with other HR solutions that use skills data such as career development, learning, succession, and compensation. For reasons covered in the next section on 3-year predictions, the system of record skills ontology should interface with solutions used to manage other critical HR functions such a payroll, employee cost centers, job certifications, and time tracking. And should incorporate methods to validate the accuracy of skills data.
It may be a few years until companies have an acute need for system of record skills ontologies. Nevertheless, given the critical impact system of record ontologies will have on a company’s ability to utilize skills data across the organization, it makes sense to start thinking about solutions that could serve this role now. The first step is to look at the company’s current state. How does the organization currently ensure employees have the skills they need to perform their jobs? What methods are used to evaluate and certify the skills proficiency levels of candidates and employees? Where does the company currently store skills data?
After answering these questions, start exploring how technology might be utilized to store, manage, and ensure the accuracy of skills data more effectively. Could this data potentially be incorporated into the solution used as the company’s core HR system of record? Or does it make more sense to keep it in a separate solution? Are there solutions that can help test and ensure the validity of skills assessment data used for high-stakes talent decisions that affect company costs and impact people’s lives and careers? Since many skills management solution vendors are exploring similar questions, it makes sense for companies to actively partner with these vendors to co-develop system of record skills ontologies.
3-year forecast (circa 2027). Companies will use core HR systems to support skills-based management but struggle with cultural barriers to become skills-based organizations.
Some people predict development of skills ontology solutions will lead to a revolutionary change in organizational design where companies will use skills-based management to create skills-based organizations. This move will require changing how we tend to view organizations. The traditional way to think about an organization is to treat it as a collection of jobs staffed by employees. Each employee is assigned to a specific job, and the type of job a person has determines the kinds of tasks they perform. Skills-based management views organizations as a collection of different tasks performed by people with specific skills. What an employee does in a skills-based organization is not based on their job. It is based on matching the skills they currently have or want to learn with the tasks the company needs to accomplish. Skills-based management assumes that every employee possesses a unique skill profile, and each employee will perform different work tasks that are tailored to fit their particular skill set.
Skills-based management is how very small companies naturally work. In companies with less than 20 employees, everyone knows everyone else at a level of detail beyond their job title. Instead of assigning work tasks based on formal job roles, work tasks are often assigned based on who has the skills to do the task or who could effectively learn the skills the task requires. For example, once when I was working in a small company the president/CEO yelled from their office “does anyone know how to fix this printer?” As I recall, the printer was fixed by the head of sales. As companies become larger, they move from unstructured skills-based management methods where talent decisions are based on work tasks and individual skill sets, to structured role-based management methods where formal job titles define what people do and how they are paid. This move to standardized job-based management methods enables greater levels of operational efficiency and cost control. It also helps with maintaining internal equity around pay and development by ensuring people performing similar jobs receive similar levels of resources. The problem with job-based management methods is it implies that employees’ skills are largely the same if they are in the same job, which is not true. This leads to underutilization of employee talent. Another problem is skills needed to perform jobs change over time. This can result in employees becoming unqualified to perform their job due to a lack of skills, even though their job never changed.
The following are some of the benefits associated with moving toward skills-based management:
Workforce planning is no longer based around headcount levels and job types. Instead, it is based on specific work tasks and associated skill requirements combined with data on current employee skills. This enables more accurate forecasts of skill needs and potential workforce skill deficiencies.
Hiring is based less on job qualifications and more on future work potential. Candidates are assessed based on what their existing skills imply about their capability to display or learn the skills needed to be successful in a role. Less emphasis is placed on traditional qualifications such educational degrees or experience in job roles because they could eliminate candidates who lack these qualifications even though they have the skills needed to be successful.
The work employees do is no longer defined by their job title. Employees are encouraged to split their time across different teams and roles based on their individual skill sets. They may also be encouraged to take on work tasks that go outside of their core job role to develop new skills.
Compensation levels are based on skills instead of job titles. Instead of tying compensation to fixed job titles, pay is dynamically allocated based on the business value of tasks employees are performing and the market value of the skills they possess. Employees are able to influence their pay levels based on acquisition and utilization of different skills in different roles.
Moving to skills-based management methods makes sense in a world characterized by accelerating rates of change. The challenge is it requires overcoming operational and cultural barriers that make skills-based management practices difficult to implement in many industries.
Operational barriers to skills-based management. Running a large organization using skills-based management methods is logistically difficult. It requires monitoring thousands of skills across thousands of people, coordinating work assignments based on complex and constantly changing sets of work tasks, and ensuring efficient and equitable allocation of pay and resources without the job standardization found in more traditionally run companies. Some of the best examples of skills-based management are in the healthcare and professional services industries. Employees in these industries are often legally required to demonstrate they have specialized skills to perform different job tasks. The market value, scarcity and criticality of these skills has led to creation of extensive programs that optimize workforce effectiveness by ensuring employees with the right qualifications are performing the right tasks at the right time at the right level of pay funded by the right cost centers.
It is very unlikely that the complicated skills-based management methods used in regulated industries like healthcare will be adopted by companies in other industries. Fortunately, the new generation of skills management solutions are removing many operational barriers that historically prevented companies from adopting skills-based management approaches. On the other hand, relatively few companies are using these solutions to become skills-based organizations. This does not surprise me given conversations I have had with HR leaders in companies working in operationally intensive industries such as manufacturing, distribution, and service delivery. The following summarizes some of the sentiment expressed during these discussions:
These new skills-based management solutions would create chaos in the company. We do not over-hire because our margins are extremely thin. We employ people to perform specific things, and if they are not doing those things then our operational processes grind to halt. Encouraging employees to move around to different roles in pursuit of building new skills sounds great, but it would disrupt our ability to build, deliver and maintain the products and services our customers rely on. And it is those customers who are ultimately paying our employees’ salaries.
These leaders aren’t dismissing the value of skills-based management. They are surfacing issues that make it hard apply skills-based management in their organizations. The core challenge is balancing the desire to give employees more freedom to utilize and develop their skills with the need to maintain reliable and cost-efficient business operations. Before employees can change their role based on their skills, the company must ensure their existing role can be backfilled by someone else. This requires the use of tools to orchestrate trading of role obligations and shift schedules across different employees in a far more sophisticated manner than what is supported by most workforce scheduling solutions.
Another operational challenge to becoming a skills-based organization are the financial implications of employees changing roles in more frequent and unstructured manner. One reason different jobs pay different salaries is because some jobs drive more business value than others. The highest paying jobs often require people to use specialized skills to perform business critical tasks. If an employee changes their role in a way that decreases their use of these specialized skills, then it may negatively impact the financial performance of the company. Companies will be more willing to accept such changes if employees pay rates went up or down based on the skills they are using in their current role. This will require much more sophisticated compensation solutions then are currently found in most organizations. Similarly, if employees take on part-time roles that are associated with different cost centers, then managers will want to shift headcount cost so workforce budgets accurately reflect where employees are spending their time within the company. This requires creating links between skills management solutions, staffing solutions, and financial solutions.
Companies with large operational workforces that want to move toward skills-based management methods will need core HR solutions that allow them to manage much more dynamic workforces. This will not be solved by building better skills ontologies and skill management solutions. It requires creating a new generation of core HR solutions that link employee skills, job assignments, shift schedules, compensation levels, and cost center budget allocations. This includes managing the skills, assignments, and pay of contract employees who play an increasingly critical part of the skilled workforce. This will require fundamentally changing the design of core HR systems. Historically, core HR technology platform use jobs and people as the primary unit of analysis for managing budgets, staffing levels, training requirements, compensation levels, payroll, and so forth. Embracing skills-based management will require managing these things at more granular level. Breaking apart “jobs” into collections of “tasks and goals” and describing “people” at the level of “individual skills and capabilities”. This is an achievable change that could be done incrementally rather than all at once, but it is not a trivial change.
Cultural barriers to skills-based management. When people talk about benefits of skills-based management they often use phrases like “realizing people’s potential”, “creating dynamic teams”, “building adaptable workforces” and “enabling talent movement across the company”. These emphasize positive ways skills-based management can change the nature of work. But there are tradeoffs associated with skills-based management that many employees may find discomforting. Foremost are greater levels of change and role ambiguity and more frequent disruption of team roles and relationships. Job stability is something many employees value, particularly when they are dealing with increasing levels of change in the broader socio-cultural environment.
Many of the operational challenges associated with becoming a skills-based organization can be addressed through technology solutions. Addressing the cultural challenges requires a different approach. It starts with giving employees the knowledge and confidence to be successful in a more ambiguous work environment. Providing managers with the insight and resources to support employees as they transfer to a much different way of working. And, perhaps most difficult of all, changing societal norms and expectations related to the stability of job assignments, pay structures, and organizational design.
Action to take now – start challenging existing assumptions about workforce operations. Skills-based management methods are becoming increasingly valuable as companies struggle to deal with growing labor shortages, greater demands for new and specialized skills, and the need to effectively utilize, develop, and retain skilled labor. This will requires making significant changes to how companies in many industries currently operate. Most companies value operational efficiency, and one of the traditional drivers of efficiency is standardization. Skills-based management requires trading standardization for flexibility. The ability of companies to make this trade depends on overcoming several significant operational and cultural barriers.
The process of transforming a large company into a skills-based organization is likely to take years. Now is the time to begin this transformation by starting to challenge long-standing assumptions about work. Discussing the following questions with business leaders can help clarify operational and cultural barriers in a company that that will hinder efforts to move toward becoming a skills-based organization.
Once you define some of the major operational barriers to skills-based management methods, explore how technology might enable the company to overcome these challenges. Note that these solutions may not be about creating better skills management tools, but about creating core HR solutions that integrate employee and contractor skills data with solutions used for workforce scheduling, compensation management, and workforce cost center allocation. In addition. start discussions with employees about the cultural barriers that might hinder efforts to embrace skills-based management methods. Engage employees in shaping the change so they see it as something they are doing with the company, versus seeing it as something being done to them by the company.
Concluding Thoughts and Three Immediate Next Steps
Technological innovation combined with business necessity has sparked what could be a massive change in how companies manage and develop skilled labor. Whether this change happens is yet to be seen. There are also historical precedents that suggest the level of change will not be as great as many people may be predicting (see Appendix 3). But there are some things we can be fairly certain of. The skills shortages companies are facing will only get worse over time. Companies will have to find better ways to attract, engage and develop skilled talent. And while technology will play a critical role in this transformation, what will also matter is challenging assumptions people currently have about how work is supposed to work. With that in mind, here are a few final actions to take now regarding skills:
Last, as we continue to figure out this skills management journey, we might keep in mind a quote attributed to the basketball player Michael Jordan: “My most valuable skill was being coachable. My desire and ability to learn”.
[i] I built one of these taxonomies early in my career for a manufacturing company. It took weeks and scores of interviews with subject matter experts, and ceased to be valuable after a few due to changing skill demands.
I would like to thank Brian Fieser, Sally Elstad, and Gordon Ritchie for their valuable insights and commentary on the initial draft of this paper.
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10moSteve Hunt an insightful look into the future of skills management! Your exploration of how machine learning and skills ontologies are set to revolutionise talent management is thought-provoking. The forecasts provide valuable guidance for organisations navigating these changes. It's particularly interesting to see the emphasis on the need for cultural adaptation in addition to technological advancements. Looking forward to seeing how these predictions unfold in the coming years
Helping companies achieve success through integrating business strategy, workforce psychology, and HR technology. Author of the books Talent Tectonics, Commonsense Talent Management, and Hiring Success.
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1ySteve Hunt you’ve done an amazing job articulating the evolution of skills management and projecting a compelling case for it well into the future. Just like generative AI, it stands to reason that HR teams need to start playing in the innovation sandbox with these new capabilities. The use cases and workforce demands are here and growing quickly. we as HR practitioners need to be able learn through proof-of-concepts and pilots to start building these new muscles, success stories and lessons learned. Thanks for the great thought-provoking work (as always)!
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1yThis is a great article with lots of valuable insight and useful (and actionable) advice, Steve. I aspire to articulate complex topics as eloquently you do.