Skills API

Candidate Understanding / Document Enrichment

Go beyond cv or resume parsing to build a comprehensive understanding of the candidate profile. This will help you to better assess candidate capabilities beyond titles which can vary by industry or geography.

Textkernel’s Skills API helps you to enrich your candidate database with skills tags based on the information extracted from a candidate document such as a cv or resume or letter of motivation, recommendations, etc.

Talent Pool or Database Enrichment

You invested significantly in attracting candidates and developing a candidate pool that you can tap into when required. But which skill sets are covered by your previous efforts? Do you have candidates with skills that are required to meet business demand?

With Textkernel’s Skills API, you can process new and older candidate profiles to build an enriched database that allows you to quickly assess current skill availability and potential gaps.

Merger & Acquisition Talent Assessment

Organizational growth by merger and/or acquisition is a business reality. Often, organizations struggle to understand the human capital gains made as a result of these strategic moves.

Time is of the essence in M&As to understand what skillsets are encompassed within an organization and which talents are at risk of being lost in the transition.

With Textkernel’s Skills API, you can assess the skills sets owned by the organization and pinpoint talent that possess business critical skills.

Workforce Planning

For many organizations, building a strong data-driven understanding of the skills encompassed by the employee base is a challenging endeavor.

Outdated cvs/resumes, manager assessments or performance reviews, training certifications and other training mean outsize volumes of data that have been captured to build a holistic understanding but not necessarily easily accessible.

Re-Skilling

Re-skilling is a reality for many organizations looking to maneuver and guarantee their future existence by shifting strategic direction. HR needs to identify the skill sets required to build the capabilities needed to execute the new strategy and mission. Helping both the organization - and employees - weather competitive storms and changing customer demands.

Textkernel’s Skill API helps organizations undertaking re-skilling initiatives to identify employees with skills that are most closely related to new skills required. Segment your employee population to create a tailor-made re-skilling and/or training and development program to meet future talent needs.

Succession planning and internal talent scouting

Looking to identify the next generation of the leadership bench?

Textkernel’s Skills API can help to identify potentially hidden talent with the leadership qualities required to lead the organization into the next wave of growth. Take all HR-related documentation and feedback into account and build a portfolio of talent that has the skills necessary to lead.

Internal Mobility

Many organizations are looking to better utilize the capabilities already possessed by the organization. Better circulating skills individuals within the organization, helps HR avoid long and costly external talent acquisition and simultaneously better engage and challenge current employees.

Textkernel’s Skills API provides organizations that are deploying Internal Mobility initiatives with the ability to surface more internal talent thanks to their skills-enriched database.

Expert Identification

For projects or assignments that require specific expertise, Textkernel’s Skills API helps to identify skills within the organization or your talent pool so you can rapidly pinpoint the right person required to support a strategic initiative.

Compensation and Benefits

Organizations competing for the same hard-to-find (and retain!) talent are looking to skill data to create differentiated pay schemes based on skill demand and supply.

Textkernel’s Skill API can help to identify talent that would benefit from such a scheme. Together with Textkernel’s Jobfeed labor market intelligence, talent intelligence and compensation and benefit teams can devise better salary schemes based on both organizational and marketplace demand and supply of talent.