Skills audit

A skills audit involves identifying the skills and knowledge (both used and latent) held by existing staff. The outcomes of a skills audit are existing skill and knowledge profiles for particular individuals or groups within the organisation.

Reasons for the application
The following reasons speak for the application of skills audits:

• Skills audits are understandable without complicated methodical prerequisites and foreknowledge.
• Approximately 80% of all staff decisions in enterprises today are still based on pure "good feeling" judgements. Skills audits help to dispel this subjectivity.
• Skills audits take into account the formal, non-formal and informal acquisition of competences.
• Skills audits combine recording, judgement and validation of competence analyses.
• Skills audits, unlike most other methods, are suitable for the conception and initiation of appropriate further education and training steps in case of competence deficits.
• Skills audits are very effective with suitable procedural combinations and can be implemented with relatively low effort in terms of assessment and time.