SkillsGraph

What is SkillsGraph?

Powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology, SkillsGraph is a dynamic workforce skills library from Aon that provides clients with a proven methodology for classifying and managing the most sought-after skills in the talent market.¹

SkillsGraph extracts information on in-demand skills directly from a global job posting database and seamlessly maps this data to our Radford McLagan Compensation Database. Thousands of leading companies around the world already rely on Aon’s job taxonomy for market-validated compensation benchmarks, and now organizations can leverage this same job taxonomy to map key skills to every role in their workforce. This process paints a robust skills picture for business and HR leaders, who can then quickly and easily identify current and future skills that are critical to business success.

Why is SkillsGraph Important?

The evolution of the talent landscape has placed a greater emphasis on skills-based workforce strategies. SkillsGraph directly integrates into an organization’s Workday platform, allowing you to streamline cumbersome processes and place the focus where it belongs: becoming a skills-based organization.

With SkillsGraph, you can manage talent by:

• Governing and maintaining a market-validated skills taxonomy, with proprietary mapping of Aon’s Radford McLagan Compensation Database taxonomy to Workday skills cloud;
• Automating processes to connect skills to your organization’s job profiles and job architecture;
• Embedding skills across Workday applications, enabling the algorithm to connect employees with the right skills to the right project;
• Accelerating the journey to skills-focused strategies for recruitment, assessment, talent management, compensation and rewards; and
• Increasing alignment between your workforce’s capabilities and your company’s ever-changing needs.

How Aon Can Help

At Aon, we guide clients through a process to help them leverage human capital data to make better decisions by providing data, analytics and advice. For skills, this means we provide high-quality skills data, curated with Human Capital applications in mind. We will give you the insights you need from the fast-moving skills marketplace without having to hunt for them, and our experienced consultants will work side-by-side with you to turn insights into action.

Our goal is to enable your skills-based transformation by injecting skills data directly into the software you already use to manage your workforce, not add to your crowded software ecosystem.

Finally, we help you establish a governance process for long-term success by creating a skills strategy roadmap, forming an internal steering committee, and using analytics to identify the best cadence for revisiting skill alignments based on the unique characteristics of each role. Aon will support you through each update cycle with SkillsGraph data, analytics and advice.

Working With Aon

Our experts will work with you and your team to develop a skills strategy and vision for your organization. With SkillsGraph, you gain a valuable tool to confidently navigate the complexities of skill frameworks, validation and governance processes.

Learn how partnering with Aon will enable your organization to elevate its talent management practices — and join a diverse and growing client base spanning industries, sectors and organizational sizes.

¹ SkillsGraph uses a version of the FLAN-T5 model to read job postings and extract and synthesize information on job skills, competencies, responsibilities, and other job details to create standardized skills descriptions and then match those skills to the Radford McLagan Compensation Database job taxonomy.