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The poison apple of “easy” skills data – are you ready to give up that sweet taste?

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This is the third in a series of posts about skills. If you haven’t already, read the other posts first:
Cutting through the BS and Sorry folks, but “Microsoft Office” is NOT a skill.
In the second post of this series, we discussed skills and the issues around defining and specifying them. Assuming we can reach some kind of common understanding of this valuable new currency, the next step is to find a way to generate meaningful skills and job data.  » Read more about: The poison apple of “easy” skills data – are you ready to give up that sweet taste?  »

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Would you buy a wheel if someone told you it was a bicycle?

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After recently stumbling upon this Forbes post from 2019, and with skills ontologies entering the Gartner HCM Tech hype cycle, we decided it’s high time to discuss the difference between taxonomies and ontologies again. Although we have been developing and explaining our ontology for over 10 years, many HR and labor market professionals still let themselves be sold on the idea that a taxonomy is good enough for jobs and skills matching.  » Read more about: Would you buy a wheel if someone told you it was a bicycle?  »

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Sorry folks, but “Microsoft Office” is NOT a skill.

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One of the most prominent buzzwords around employment, employability and workforce management is skills. There is a lot of noise surrounding this concept and its fellow buzzwords like reskilling, upskilling, skills matching, skills alignment, skill gaps, skills anticipation, skills prediction, and so on. One can find myriad publications and posts explaining why skills are so important, how to analyze skills supply and demand, how to develop active labor market policies based on skills, how to manage and develop employee skills – as well as the many sites listing the “most in-demand skills” of the year.  » Read more about: Sorry folks, but “Microsoft Office” is NOT a skill.  »

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Cutting through the BS

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Adaptability and flexibility, digital skills, creativity and innovation, emotional intelligence… Since the pandemic went global, everyone has been talking about the top post-COVID skills employees will need. Going through numerous posts from Forbes over Randstad to EURES, it seems that the key point they have in common is that they are untransparent if not completely unfounded. Despite all the noise they generate, none of these posts give any insight into what data their claims are based on – or whether they have any data at all.  » Read more about: Cutting through the BS  »

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JANZZ named as a Sample Vendor for Skills Ontologies in Gartner Hype Cycle for HCM Tech 2020

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We are proud to announce that JANZZ.technology has been identified by Gartner as a Sample Vendor of Skills Ontologies in the Hype Cycle for Human Capital Management Technology 2020. This recognition validates the innovative approach of our solutions for businesses and public employment services based on our unique multilingual job and skills ontology.
What is the Gartner Hype Cycle?
“Gartner Hype Cycles provide a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities.  » Read more about: JANZZ named as a Sample Vendor for Skills Ontologies in Gartner Hype Cycle for HCM Tech 2020  »

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