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Skills-Based Hiring & Advancement: SBHA 7 Stage Model

Hire for high performance

With Skills-Based Hiring and Advancement

Use Ardcairn’s SBHA 7 Stage Model to plan how you will hire people with the best skills fit for your organisation and to empower continuing high performance.

SBHA: 7 STAGES

Pre-Hiring Phase

1. IDENTIFICATION

Identify skills

  • Conduct skills-based job analysis
  • Determine skills gaps and skills needs
  • Consider business critical skills for future-proofing

2. VISIBILITY

Make skills requirements visible

  • Define skills requirements in job descriptions
  • Specify skill level expectations
  • Build a company skills taxonomy

Hiring Phase

3. APPROACH

Identify skills-based hiring approach

  • Consider accepting skills credentials in applications
  • Consider delivering specific skills assessments
  • Consider approaches for different jobs/roles

4. TOOLS

Select skills discovery tools

  • Consider tools required for skills-based hiring approach
  • Consider functionality required for post-hiring, skills-based advancement
  • Consider tools/awareness needed by applicants/employees

5. ANALYSIS

Analyse skills-based data

  • Review evidence at different stages of hiring process
  • Identify skills and skills gaps
  • Use skills data to identify costs of onboarding/training requirements

Hired Phase

6. ONBOARDING

Deliver onboarding

  • Use skills-based hiring data to determine onboarding/training provision
  • Encourage a skills mindset
  • Empower high performance with a skills-based learning culture

7. ADVANCEMENT

Apply skills-based advancement

  • Track and recognise employees' skills
  • Conduct skills-based performance reviews
  • Use skills-based learning for targeted upskilling

Get Started

To get started with skills-based hiring and advancement:

Start small and scale

  • Work through the pre-hiring stage for one job and seek feedback internally
  • Learn lessons, refine the process and identify approaches, tools and analysis requirements
  • Acquire the tools you need to apply skills-based hiring & advancement and empower high performance

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