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What Is Skills Intelligence?

An enterprise capability that continuously identifies, connects, and activates skills across jobs, career pathways, and learning—so you can make workforce decisions that scale.

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AUTHORITATIVE DEFINITION

Skills Intelligence, defined

Skills Intelligence is the capability to: identify the skills required to perform work, connect those skills to roles and career pathways, and continuously adapt as technology and job requirements change. It transforms skills data from a static library into a living system that powers skills-based hiring, internal mobility, and workforce transformation. This is the same capability Career Highways scales as the primary entry point for employer adoption.

Our product extracts and normalizes skills, continuously curates a master skill list, and delivers AI impact analysis so skill data is both accurate and actionable.
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WHY TRADITIONAL APPROACHES FAIL

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Why skills initiatives stall

Static skills data and disconnected dashboards can’t sustain workforce change.

  • Static taxonomies and one-time assessments go stale.
  • Inferred skills without governance create noise and false signals.
  • Dashboards that aren’t integrated into job architecture don’t change decisions.

Without a living system and governance, skills data is quickly unusable for hiring, mobility, or planning.

HOW CAREER HIGHWAYS DELIVERS SKILLS INTELLIGENCE

A living system: job architecture + skills + pathways + AI

A governed, living system that keeps jobs, skills, and pathways aligned as work changes.

  • Job Architecture (living): Scalable role models that update as roles evolve.
  • Skills Frameworks: Curated master lists with consistent tagging and governance.
  • Career Pathways: Transparent paths that connect skills, roles, and learning.
  • Skill Extraction & Normalization: AI-driven extraction from job content, learning, and performance data, validated and curated by humans.
  • AI Impact Analysis: Role-level forecasts on how automation and AI will affect competency requirements and role design.
  • Integration & Action: Outputs delivered where decisions are made — ATS, HRIS, LMS, and manager tools.
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WHAT IT ENABLES

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From insight to action — practical applications

Move beyond insight to operational decisions powered by real skills data.

  • Skills-Based Hiring: Match hires to real skill requirements, not titles.
  • Career Mobility: Increase internal fills with transparent career pathways.
  • Reskilling & L&D Targeting: Design programs based on observed skill gaps.
  • Workforce Transformation: Plan for AI and automation with scenario analysis.
  • Talent Governance: Maintain a single source of truth for skills data.

WHAT SKILLS INTELLIGENCE IS NOT

Clarifying Scope

Skills Intelligence is not a static skills library, a one-time taxonomy project, or simply a visualization layer. It’s the intelligence layer that makes taxonomies, learning systems, and talent marketplaces effective.

IS NOT
A career coaching product
IS NOT
A cost-cutting “replace people” narrative
IS NOT
A static taxonomy locked in a document
IS NOT
A dashboard layered on outdated job architecture
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Decision infrastructure
IS NOT
Instant transformation without governance

Bottom line: Skills Intelligence removes noise, connects signals, and enables repeatable talent decisions—without the hype cycle.

PROOF & METRICS

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How to measure success

Suggested KPIs

  • Internal fill rate (##%)
  • Time to competency or productivity after hire/promotion
  • ##% of roles with up-to-date skills mapping
  •  Reskilling ROI (##% improvement)