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Competency Modeling & Job Profiling

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The focus competency modeling and job profiling process is an efficient, positive opportunity for managers and direct reports to share their views on the competencies and skills that truly are critical to success.  Participants are facilitated in a small group structured process that brings clarity and consensus.

Competencies and skills are the basic building blocks of Human Resource Management. What core competencies will take your organization to the next level? Which are the 15-30 most critical competencies for each of your jobs? focus provides a systematic, valid, and user-friendly way to build your organization and competency models and job profiles.

focus Competency Modeling and Job Profiling Features & Benefits

focus provides tremendous flexibility to meet the simplest or most complex needs.

Customizable Comprehensive Competency Library: Utilize the focus library of 500 competencies to build a library specific to your organization

Job Profiling Wizard: "Walks" users through a structured approach and leads to outstanding results

Prioritizes: Unique and powerful methodology for identifying the most important competencies and skills, plus weights and dollar values for each!

Includes Technical Skills: Core Competencies are not enough.focus also identifies cross-functional and technical skills that are essential for successful job performance

Quicker and Better: People that struggled without focus find that they now can complete their competency models and job profiles much faster than before and that the quality of the profiles is far better

Updates Job Descriptions: Process updates and brings all relevant job data into one place

Create Job Pools: Generalizedcompetency models and job profiles for groups of related jobs can be created. This feature saves time and allows users to more quickly enjoy the advantages of job profiling

Legal Foundation: Provides "content validity"” foundation for making and defending people decisions, such as hiring, training, rewarding, promoting, and separations

Fully Integrated with Other focus Functions: Competency models and Job profiles drive customized 360 degree evaluations and are also integrated with training and development planning, career development, and succession planning

Typical Steps to Implement Competency Modeling and Job Profiling

  1. Review and update job responsibilities
  2. Select critical competencies from tailored company competency library
  3. Associate competencies with job responsibilities to determine competency and skill weights
  4. Identify desired performance levels for each competency
  5. Compare competency models and job profiles in job families to ensure consistency and quality

"By using technology as a competency modeling and job profiling enabler you profile jobs faster and easier and the data can be utilized to bring your people to the next level."

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