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Skills Audit
Usually, the Human Resource Section will conduct a skills audit annually (before or at the end of the financial year), in consultation with all stakeholders to identity skills and training gaps between the available skills and required skills for all occupational categories within the organisation. The results of the skills audit will be used to develop a Workplace Skills Plan for the organization.
The skills audit has to identify what we have what we need to do our job and to what the organisation needs.
Click here to view a video that explains the skills audit.
The steps in the skills audit process are summarized in this table:
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Step |
Action |
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1 |
Train or source people the perform the skills audit |
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2 |
Define skills |
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3 |
Develop an action plan to perform the skills audit |
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4 |
Implement the action plan; Perform the skills audit |
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4.1 |
Identify jobs and job categories as well as employees per job |
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4.2 |
Identify job profiles in terms of race, gender, disability and job category |
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4.3 |
Identify employees who should be involved in the skills audit process |
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4.4 |
Identify methods that will be used during the skills audit process |
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4.5 |
Develop documents to record the information |
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4.6 |
Identify the applicable period |
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4.7 |
Identify skills requirements of jobs and skills profiles of employees (perform the skills audit) |
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4.8 |
Record skills audit results |
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4.9 |
Identify training needs |
In other words, the Skills Audit will determine what skills the employee has and what does he/she needs according to the performance agreement.
Click here to download an example of an action plan for the Skills Audit.
Implement the Action Plan
- Identify the jobs and job categories as well as employees per job.
The SDF must have the following information available when starting the skills audit:
- A list of job titles
- List of the employees
- (The Financial and HR departments should have this information)
Click here to download an example of a Skills Matrix.
Click here to download an example of a Skills Audit Feedback Report and an example of summary report on the skills audit.