SkillDex

What is SkillDex?

SkillDex is a powerful and easy-to-use management tool for identifying, analysing and managing the skills, qualifications and experience of personnel throughout an organisation. With SkillDex you can manage your skills position for maximum organisational efficiency, keeping on top of an ever-changing skillbase for a project, a team, a section, a department or a whole organisation. You will be able to spot the crucial skills gaps, identify training needs, compare team members’ skills against a team average, redeploy staff for maximum use of their talents and plan future teams and groups on the basis of complete and up-to-date information about their skills.

What will it do for me?

SkillDex gives you the information you need to manage your skillbase.

• Listing - SkillDex is the baseline for keeping a record of everyone’s constantly changing skillbase. Qualifications, training courses, talents, experience - you can log it all with SkillDe
• Maintaining - SkillDex takes the work out of keeping on top of the skills list by empowering staff to review their own records online and to request updates as their skills grow. This ensures that your SkillDex data is always current.
• Identifying - SkillDex lets you to spot the gaps, see the strengths, work out the weaknesses. - For individuals you can see where skills are missing, over abundant or under-utilised. - For teams you can identify areas of risk, exposure or underskilling. SkillDex gives you the full picture across whole teams, departments or the entire organisation
• Searching and Comparing - SkillDex enables you search for particular abilities, qualifications and skills within the whole organisation. Why hire-in expensive skills when you already have them in-house?
• Managing - SkillDex is invaluable in the creation of Personal Development Plans (PDPs) giving management faster and more accurate information and demonstrating the organisation’s

How does it work?

Interviews, online questionnaires and online browsing. Interviews: To set up SkillDex for you, we will tailor it to your needs. Each manager or team leader is interviewed by an RSM consultant, picking out the key areas of activity, skills needed and training and qualifications required. The interview gets to the heart of what particular requirements you have, and gives the RSM consultant the knowledge to set up the skills index. Questionnaires: From the interview, the RSM consultant will create an on-line skills index, a questionnaire to be completed by every individual in the team, designed to get the right information from the team members. Every individual is given access to their own personal record, where they can input their own data, answer the questions and fill in details about their skills, training experience and qualifications. On-line browsing: Once the skills index is complete for all members of the team, SkillDex is viewable on-line for anyone with access, depending on their level of authority. Individuals can review the current status of their skills index, amend and update their entries. Team leaders can review the entire team’s records, getting an instant overall picture of the balance of skills, the gaps and the hidden talents. Managers can search, compare and review the entire skillbase, and by using the summaries, get quick, accurate and up-todate information to plan and develop the teams and the work ahead.

What about security?

SkillDex communications are based on the universally acknowledged Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS) technique. SkillDex is also password protected, providing varying levels of authority and access. Individual team members are assigned a user name and password, to enter, review and change their own personal data. Team leaders get a second level authority to give them access to the records of each member of their team. Managers may be assigned the top-level authority, enabling them to get the total SkillDex picture for company-wide skills search and management.

Won’t it mean installing software all over the company?

No. SkillDex is browser based - there’s nothing to install. The database and webserver may be housed and maintained by RSM - no extra hardware or software is required. As long as you have an internet connection and a web browser, you’re up and running.

Won’t SkillDex quickly go out of date?

No. SkillDex is a ‘real-time’ tool. Name changes, new personnel, team deployment, skills development - all are managed by the system. SkillDex keeps you in the picture as the picture changes, so you always have up-to-the-minute information.