A skill gap analysis is a method to identify the gaps in the skills in the organization and take relevant actions to bridge them—a technique to improve the company’s performance and stay competitive in the long run. Simply put, a skills gap refers to the difference between the skills required to carry out the job efficiently and the actual skills an employee possesses. Assessing where you are currently is the first step toward predicting and preventing the skill gap. The issue with the skills gaps is that people tend to think it is hard. However, the key is to take small steps – start with the group level and move slowly on from there; you can evolve into doing a complete skills gap analysis for an organization. HR has been guilty of wasting time and effort on irrelevant learning that won’t be used to further the business or the employee’s career. By creating a detailed description of every skill and building an inventory of critical skills with an eye toward revising and updating it regularly will allow an organization to sense changes to critical skills needs promptly and adjust. It is also essential to improve the Adjacent skills along the way. Adjacent skills are skills closely related to a critical skill and typically appear alongside it in employee skills profiles. It can be a worthwhile exercise to cast your net wider to ensure you become more agile and proactive in managing your key resource – your people! SplashHR people analytics monitor overall organizational health for every leader, job type, department, and location. Our People Intelligence lets you drill into the details – from Macro to Micro. Get meaningful insights from your data from multiple sources. Our skill gap analysis dashboard showcases how you can increase employee engagement, optimize the skills usage, drill down into the data, and potentially find the right fit for some of the roles and move them internally. It will help you reduce the recruitment cost and the onboarding and training time, thus maximizing the skills very quickly.