Better workforce investments start with assessments.

Smarter workforce decisions start with quality data points. Enter, our latest product in the Skills Intelligence ecosystem: Assessments.

Here’s the deal. Businesses waste a lot of money on upskilling because they’re often operating in the dark, or if they have the information, they might be struggling to implement it into a training program that actually works.

As a Skills Intelligence company, we specialize in doing the heavy lifting and data analysis to understand your specific needs so that you’re making moves that actually make an impact on your business. Then, our dream team of instructional designers bring it home with snackable training that packs big impact for its bite. Hence, better use of your budget.

The short version: Assessments help us understand your true baseline data in real-time so that we can develop custom training that works.

What does all of this mean?

With Assessments, you’ll be able to strengthen your workforce strategies and be better prepared to address challenges around recruitment, retention, and succession planning. Plus, as a bonus, you’ll be able to enhance your employer brand and employee engagement.

For recruitment, it enables more precise job postings, better candidate screening, and structured interviews based on actual skill requirements. This helps attract top candidates by demonstrating a commitment to employee development and clear career pathways.

For retention, it drives engagement through personalized development plans, transparent promotion criteria, and visible growth opportunities.
For succession planning, it helps by identifying high-potential employees and leadership candidates, while ensuring training investments are targeted where they'll have the most impact.

How does it work?

Effective competency assessments provide crucial Skills Intelligence that drives informed decision-making for workforce transformation and training initiatives.

We start with a conversation about the essential skills and skills gaps that you’re concerned about
You can choose the assessments you want your team members to take or we can make a recommendation for you
Share the assessment link with your employees – the more data points, the better!
Our team puts together a report with the aggregate data, along with a recommendation on the next steps to address any identified skills gaps

Pro Tip: Organizations can enrich their competency assessment insights by including demographic data such as age distribution, tenure, education level, and location. This demographic context helps identify patterns in skill gaps, predict retirement waves, tailor training approaches for different employee groups, and inform succession planning.

We offer a couple of packages that give you a standard data set, or a premium package with three-dimensional assessments with more rich information designed to support your needs. Contact our team to learn more about these.

Who benefits?

You benefit. We benefit. Your employees benefit. The workforce benefits. We all benefit, get it?

You’ll get better ROI on your training and workforce planning. You’ll see results faster. And you’ll have happier employees who feel like you’re invested in their careers long term.

The data also benefits the entire industry and has potential to impact funding and programs from the Government. As a Skills Intelligence provider, one of our important stakeholders in the skills intelligence ecosystem is the government. We help identify risks to the industry, like for example, the fact that the energy industry will need over fifteen thousand new workers in the next ten years to support Canada’s energy demand. Then we try to make funding happen so that we can help you help all Canadians.

Pretty neat, right?

Ready to learn more? Check out our catalogue of assessments for the nuclear industry or our assessments for essential soft skills. Or just email our team if you want to talk all things workforce data at info@talentready.ca.