It's Your Skills is an HR technology organization that focuses on skills research and taxonomy. It offers a unique, comprehensive skills taxonomy database covering functional, behavioral, knowledge and other skills across industries. The taxonomy is organized intelligently with hierarchical, graphical and other associations between skills. It's Your Skills also offers a skills profiler tool that allows users to search, select and rate their skills to create structured skills profiles for jobs or individuals. These profiles and the underlying taxonomy allow for skills-based analysis and transform how organizations approach HR functions like recruitment, development and analytics. It's Your Skills also provides APIs for integrating its taxonomy into other applications and systems.

1. It’sYour Skills (IYS)
enabling organizationsget skills-centric

2. It’s Your Skills is a HR Technology
organization that focuses on research
on skills to enrich its Skills Taxonomy,
offers solutions around Skills Taxonomy for
Skills Mapping, Matching and Management
Brief of It’s Your Skills
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3. IYS Skills Taxonomy is a unique database
ofskills that is large,dynamic and intelligent
covering different aspects of skills and
covering almost all functions and industries
IYS skillstaxonomy
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4. IYS Skills Taxonomy – Different Aspects of Skills& Functions
1. Functional /Technical Skills
2. Behavioral Skills
3. Knowledge (of concepts, methods etc.)
4. Activities
5. Certifications
6. Domain (or context of experience)
IYSSkills Taxonomy coversall aspectsof“Skills Profile”
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IYSSkills Taxonomy–Wide Coverage ofFunctions
IYSSkills Taxonomy covers 34areas of functions / industries
Such as,
Informationtechnology, accounts and finance,manufacturing,
humanresource, life science, telecom, oil &gas, healthcareand
more..

5. IYS Skills Taxonomy – Intelligence
IYS Skills Taxonomy is intelligent organized
Skills are organizedin multiple ways to make Skills Profiling comprehensive
Clustering of different skills
terms into logical categories
Hierarchical associations
of terms.
Similar to Country
>>State >>District >>Cities
Graphical association
of terms.
Databases <<Software Developer
>>ProgrammingLanguages
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6. IYS Skills Taxonomy Nuances
Examples:
Spelling:DotNet= .Net= DotNet
Acronym:HR =HumanResources
Synonym:TalentAcquisition=Recruitment
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Termsarenormalizedforspellingdifferences,synonymsandacronyms
NormalizationOfTerms
Example:
“Car”isacontext(noun) contextualskillsarederivedWhen“car” isusedwithaverbsuch as
Repairingcars |Engineeringcars |Sellingcars |Drivingcars
Skillsarederivedfroma combinationofactivity(verb)andthecontextandthus skills taxonomytakesthisapproachwhenorganizingskills
ContextualReferencesToTerms
Proficiency Levels
It’sYourSkillshaschosentousea four-pointratingscaleforproficienciesonskills.
Atthesametime,thelegends(ormeasures)associatedtotheselevelsvarybasedon thenatureofskill.

7. IYS Skills Taxonomy – Dynamic
IYS Skills Taxonomy is constantly updated
Using tools & technologies such
as NPL, Data Analytics to mine
for and curate skills from job
posts and people profiles from
job boards, websites and others
Userparticipation /
contribution on skills with
a governance at IYS endto
screenand validate
contributions
Secondary research
and inputs from
subject matter experts
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8. A solution from It’s Your Skills
The skillstaxonomy and theskillsprofiler
be used by application developers
through API and as a plugin
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9. IYS Skills Profiler
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User interfacelayeron the
IYSskills taxonomy

10. IYS Skills Profiler
IYS skills profiler is a simple web tool to search
Select and rate on skills
to create a
holistic skills profile
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11. Purpose ofthe Skills ProfilerEnable
peoplecreate “Skills Profile”of
themselvesor jobs in a structured
mannertoarticulateskillsand proficiencies
in skills
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12. IYS Skills Profile
IYS Skills Profile has two components
Proficiencies in
Skills
Functional/ technical,
behavioral,knowledge,
activities, domain,
certifications
Skills Profile of jobs and employees called Role Skills Profiles
and Employee Skills Profiles aresimple, structured,and easy to analyzerepresentation of skills and
proficiencies.
Skills
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13. The Human Capital landscape revolves around
Two data constructs:
Skills Profile of Jobs
Skills of people
Skills ofjobs
(orroles)
Skills ofpeople
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14. EveryHuman Capital function use these two data sets onskills
Example
Recruitment
Matching of skills profiles of jobs
And skills profiles of applicants
Development
Needs skills profile of jobs –
Skills profiles of employees
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15. IYS Skills Profile -Usefulness
IYS skills profile is useful in many ways
Analyzingfit of a person to a role based on thelevel of the match of the skills and
proficiencies
Analyzinggaps inthe skills of a person in a role
Analyzingcareeropportunities and gaps inskills to moveto these careeroptions
Analyzing,at an organization level, skills that are strengths and weaknesses of the
organization
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16. IYS Skills Profilerenables creation of
JobSkills Profile EmployeeSkills Profile
In a comprehensive manner
using a common skillslanguage
and in a common structure
for all
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17. And ThisIs Transformational
IYS Skills Profilerenables creation of
&
Job Skills Profile EmployeeSkills Profile
Enables
Analyticsof Skills
Making all HRfunctionslike
recruitment,trainingetc.
data-driven,productive
Skills Visibility
Organization-wideandthusbetterleverage onskills,
improving business responseandfosteringinnovation
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18. IYS Solutions – SkillsAPI
IYS offers Skills Taxonomy in the form of APIs
A job site would want its
users – job providers and job
seekers to present skills of the
job and themselves,
respectively.
Capturingof these skills
becomes easy, precise and
comprehensiveoffering users
to search, select and rateon
skills.
TheAPI allows for search on
skills, childrenof the skills,
siblings of theskills, related
skills categories and
synonyms.
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19. ThankYou!
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