Skills inventories are used to assess an organization's current supply of employee skills. They list employees' abilities, qualifications, and career goals to identify suitable candidates for internal recruitment and promotions. Skills inventories consist of employee names, characteristics, and skills, providing a way to acquire and make this data available wherever needed. When deciding what information to include, HR managers consider data summarizing employees' past jobs and skills, present skills based on performance reviews and supervisor input, and future goals, training interests, and supervisor views.

1. Skills Inventory

2. Meaning
• The major tool to asses the current supply of
employee is skills inventory
• Listing of abilities, capacities, qualifications,
and career goals of the employees to identify
suitable candidates for internal
recruitment or promotions

3. Skill Inventory Format
It consist of list of:
• names
• characteristics
• Skills
It provides a way to acquire these data and
makes them available wherever needed

5. Contents of skill inventories
• Once the decision has been made hr manager
decides what information should be contained
in the system
Components:
1.Data summarizing the employee’s past
2.Data summarizing the status of the present
skills
3.Data that focus on the future

6. Data summarizing of the employee’s
past
• A. Titles and brief job description highlights
from positions held in the last 2 to 5 years.
• B. Critical skills needed or developed while in
these positions
• C. Educational achievements
• D. Significant special projects accomplished
during the last 3 years

7. Data summarization of the present
skills
• A. Skill related highlights: last 3 performance
appraisals
• B. Employee’s perception of what is done well
on present job.
• C. Some data from employee’s supervisor

8. Data that focus on future
• A. Personal career goals
• B. Views of the individual’s superior
• C. Specific training and development efforts
the individual is motivated to undertake.