Introduction

We have the ambition to know every skill on the planet: over the years we have build-up one of the largest skill libraries in the world. The skill library aims to reflect the current state of all skills in the world and is continuously being expanded with new skills and keywords. It is not a static catalog (‘snapshot’) but instead continuously updated with crawled data – making our skill library a dynamic, market-driven source of information.

Here are some quick facts:

 100.000+ skills

141 new skills are added per day (average)

13 different languages can be detected

A taxonomy classifies the skills in 4 levels

The future orientation is rated for each skill

Skill proficiency

The skill proficiency increases the precision to express how experienced an employee should be in a certain skill. Did they have first experience in the skill or applied it practically for 10+ years? To allow this distinction, the HRForecast skill library distinguishes between the following four levels:

 Beginner

  • Knowledge: the person has a basic or common familiarity, awareness, or understanding of the topic, technique or concept.
  • Skill: Basic tasks or activities can be performed.
  • Experience: No or very little practical experience on the topic, technique or concept.

 Intermediate 

  • Knowledge: the person has familiarity, awareness, or understanding of the topic, technique or concept and is able to explain it to others – but not in detail.
  • Skill: the person is able to successfully complete tasks as requested, mostly on an operational level. Help from an expert may be required from time to time.
  • Experience: Some practical experience on the topic, technique or concept.

 Advanced

  • Knowledge: the person has good familiarity, awareness, or understanding of the topic, technique or concept and is able to explain it to others in detail.
  • Skill: the person is able to successfully perform tasks associated with this skill without assistance and can support others on it. Help from an expert is only rarely required.
  • Experience: Usually more than one year (depending on the skill of to many years) of practical experience on the topic, technique or concept.

 Expert

A person is known as an expert in this area. They can provide guidance and answers questions related to this area of expertise and the field where the skill is used.

  • Knowledge: the person is known as a subject expert in this area and can explain it to others on any dimension related to it.
  • Skill: the person is able to successfully perform tasks associated with this skill on a strategic level. They can provide guidance and answer questions related to this area of expertise and the field where the skill is applied.
  • Experience: Usually many years of practical experience on the topic, technique or concept.

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