Avilar, Inc., a provider of competency management and learning management solutions, released today iSkills Competency Management System Version 6.3. The new version enables organizations to better analyze organizational skill gaps and training needs, search their employee skills inventory and monitor changes in skills over time. The new capabilities of iSkills improve its abilities to support talent management initiatives such as recruiting, performance management and succession planning.
ìCompetency management is the foundation of all talent management activities,î notes John Skowlund, Avilarís Chief Executive Officer. ìThe enhancements to iSkills allow for a more advanced analysis of employee competencies and give organizations improved insight into the workforce to support strategic decisions in talent management.î
The new version of iSkills includes several new interactive reports to view skill levels and skill gaps of an organization as well as recommended learning resources. Users can select filters to modify the report and drill down on charts and graphs to instantly see the supporting data. For example, human resource directors and business managers can view a chart of skill gaps for each department and then click a chart item to quickly drill down to analyze data of each employee in the department. These users can quickly identify major skill gaps, prioritize training needs and project future recruiting requirements.
In addition, the expanded Skills Search functionality in iSkills allows users to search the organizationís employee skills inventory and identify employees with specific skills, experience and demographic information. Skills Search supports an organizationís need to build project teams and identify candidates for job openings. Furthermore, version 6.3 of iSkills enables management of historical employee skills data. Managing historical skills data allows companies to monitor improvements in skill levels and measure ROI of training, recruiting and other talent management activities.
Avilarís iSkills is available as an on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution as well as software license for installation on a customer network. Avilar also offers a skills dictionary for use with iSkills with over 200 professional, leadership and occupational skills clustered in more than 40 skill groups. The dictionary can be used as is or customized to the specific needs of the employing organization.
Avilar Introduces New Version of iSkillsô Competency Management Tool
Interactive Reporting, Employee Skill Search and Historical Skills Archiving Highlight Version 6.3
