One way to get started with skill and competency management is to build a simple model for a basic competency and then use that model as a template for adding other models. This can work, but attention must be paid from this beginning to scalability and extensibility.

Alexis Katigbak is a Senior Product Manager at TeamFit. See her Skill Profile. “The basic idea of deconstructing work has the potential to change everything HR.

Most of us have several skill profiles on different systems and none of them is current. To change this, profiles must be connected to work and to other people.

Skill management is a powerful complement to HRIS making the latter a more effective tool for actually growing and encouraging people (the human resources).