How SkillMap® Works
SkillMap® participants:
- An administrator to coordinate the data collection for each target job. This person can be a member of your staff or a third-party consultant hired to manage the job inventory process. Formal training or particular background experience is not required.
- Job experts who know the job (job incumbents). Job experts can participate whenever it fits their work schedules best, regardless of their work shift or work location. They simply need access to a workstation with an Internet connection.
As shown in the model, the process requires the administrator and job experts to participate consecutively in order to move the process forward. The administrator coordinates as the job experts:
- review tasks from the O*NET™ database to develop a list of tasks that describe the job. They also have the opportunity to write their own task statements to more fully cover the requirements of the job in your company.
- rate the tasks of the job for importance and time spent to ensure that the tasks on the list are critical to the performance of the job.
- review skills and skill levels in order to match the job tasks to skill levels.
SkillMap then uses the task criticality and skill level data provided by the job experts to calculate skill levels that correspond to the WorkKeys assessments.
The final product is a job inventory report generated by SkillMap, documenting the tasks and WorkKeys skill levels required to perform the job. These results can be used for personnel selection, promotion, and training decisions.
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