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Fit with your company
How far the person's skills cover what their role asks for inside your operation.
In the 8MAP, the Skills dimension measures how well covered the technical and soft skills each role asks for actually are. It combines what the person, their manager and their peers report, uses the European Commission's ESCO classification as a reference, and keeps fit with your company separate from fit with the market.
What it measures
How far the person's skills cover what their role asks for inside your operation.
How far those same skills fit what the external market asks for.
How to read the result
Higher is better
Higher is better: less gap to close. Each skill shows its current level, the expected level and the difference.
Why it matters
Self-assessment alone is not enough: the relationship between how people rate themselves and their measured performance is low on average. Adding the manager's and peers' view corrects that bias, and each source contributes information the others do not have.
It synthesises the three sources into a single read instead of averaging their numbers, and keeps fit with your company separate from fit with the market.
Because comparing against a structured taxonomy stops every department inventing its own list of skills, and because three views of the same person give a steadier read than one.
Frequently asked questions
It is the difference between the level a person has in a skill and the level their role asks for. In Escal8 it is shown skill by skill, with the courses to close it.
By comparing what the person can do with what their role asks for, ideally with more than one source. The 8MAP combines self-assessment, manager and peers.
It is the European Commission's classification of occupations, skills and qualifications. The 8MAP uses it as a reference for comparing skills.
We walk you through the 8MAP with a sample team and answer your Talent team's questions.