Skills Inventory

Meaning

• The major tool to asses the current supply of employee is skills inventory

• Listing of abilities, capacities, qualifications, and career goals of the employees to identify suitable candidates for internal recruitment or promotions

Skill Inventory Format

It consist of list of:• names• characteristics• Skills

It provides a way to acquire these data and makes them available wherever needed

Contents of skill inventories

• Once the decision has been made hr manager decides what information should be contained in the system

Components:1.Data summarizing the employee’s past2.Data summarizing the status of the present

skills3.Data that focus on the future

Data summarizing of the employee’s past

• A. Titles and brief job description highlights from positions held in the last 2 to 5 years.

• B. Critical skills needed or developed while in these positions

• C. Educational achievements • D. Significant special projects accomplished

during the last 3 years

Data summarization of the present skills

• A. Skill related highlights: last 3 performance appraisals

• B. Employee’s perception of what is done well on present job.

• C. Some data from employee’s supervisor

Data that focus on future

• A. Personal career goals• B. Views of the individual’s superior• C. Specific training and development efforts

the individual is motivated to undertake.

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