Workforce Planning Skills Framework Design Guide

This guide helps HR professionals define, organize, and standardize skills before launching a skills inventory, workforce planning pilot, talent marketplace, or workforce capability assessment. A skills-based approach depends on a shared understanding of what skills matter, what those skills mean, how proficiency should be interpreted, and what evidence demonstrates skill capability. This guide provides practical examples and working templates to help translate broad skill concepts into a usable framework that can support workforce planning, development, hiring, and internal mobility decisions.