Skill and competency mapping software your people keep current
Competency mapping software your people actually keep current
Built for HR and L&D teams who need to know what skills they have and how to grow them. See skills, certifications and interests across the organisation, find the gaps against each role and give every employee a clear path to grow here.
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You cannot grow skills you cannot see
MuchSkills sits on top of your HRIS. Employees and managers keep their own profiles current, so your skills map stays live instead of going stale in a spreadsheet.
Competency management starts with a map people trust. Gap analysis, development plans and internal moves all follow from it.
Skills-based organisations are 107% more likely to place people efficiently and 98% more likely to keep key people (Deloitte, 2022).
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- Skills live in spreadsheets, old dashboards and managers' heads.
- Your LMS counts course completions, but cannot show whether any skill grew.
- The engagement survey flags 'lack of career growth' again. Good people leave for growth they couldn't see here.
- The skills matrix someone built last year is already out of date.
Start from a library, not a blank spreadsheet
A skills map is only as good as its last update. So we made updating it the easy part.
Use our skills database
Pick from 70,000+ capabilities, 12,000+ tech skills and 9,700+ certifications. No taxonomy written from scratch.
Add what makes you different
Map product knowledge, customer and industry experience, languages and the behaviours your culture needs.
Capture skill and will
Skill tells you who can. Will tells you who wants to. People set both, for every skill on their profile.
Connect your HRIS
Sync people data from Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Personio, HiBob, BambooHR and more. SSO is included on every plan.
Keep it live
Employees own their profiles and managers validate skills. Nobody has to chase updates.
Turn the map into growth
Gap analysis for every role
Set the competencies a role needs. Each employee sees their strengths and gaps at a glance, and how close they are to other roles.
A development plan in minutes
Pick an upskilling goal and get a personal plan that fits the person's ambitions and your skill priorities.
Better one-to-ones
Managers see each person's skills, certifications and goal progress. Check-ins become development conversations, not task updates.
Show what training built
Track competency growth by person, team and department. Show the CFO which gaps your L&D spend closed.
Take the data where you need it
Push skills data to Power BI, Salesforce or any other tool through the open API.
From assumptions to data
Nearly 55,000 civil servants across 46 Nigerian ministries mapped their skills, adding 19,000+ development goals (Project PASGA, with Phillips Consulting).
Transformed how we talk about skills, from assumptions to data.
Höegh AutolinersOur managers are having better 1:1s than ever.
Marcus ThomasEliminated spreadsheet chaos across 200+ employees.
IntellectEUWhat HR teams ask before they map a single skill
What is competency mapping?
Competency mapping means recording which skills, knowledge and behaviours each person has, at what level, and comparing that with what their role needs. The result shows strengths, gaps and who is ready for what. In MuchSkills, employees map their own skills, proficiency and interest, managers validate them, and HR sees the whole organisation in one live view.
What does a competency management platform do?
A competency management platform keeps a live record of skills and certifications, defines the competencies each role needs and runs gap analysis between the two. MuchSkills adds personal development plans, manager insight for one-to-ones, certification tracking with expiry reminders and org-wide skills reports. It works as competency tracking software on top of your HRIS rather than replacing it.
How do we stop our skills data going stale?
Make the profile useful to the person who fills it in. In MuchSkills, each employee sees their gaps against their role and tracks their own development goals, so they have a reason to keep it current. Managers validate skills during one-to-ones, and HRIS integrations keep people data in sync without manual imports.
How long does it take to map skills across an organisation?
It depends on size. A smaller company can have a complete map within a couple of weeks. A company of around 2,000 usually takes a couple of months, since some people are away or on leave; with reminders, live workshops and onboarding, 90% of profiles are complete by then. At national scale, nearly 55,000 civil servants across 46 ministries in Nigeria mapped their skills in MuchSkills. Starting from a database of 70,000+ capabilities, 12,000+ tech skills and 9,700+ certifications saves you writing a taxonomy from scratch.
Which HR systems does MuchSkills integrate with?
MuchSkills integrates with Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Personio, HiBob, BambooHR, Dayforce, CatalystOne, Microsoft Dynamics and Microsoft AD. Every plan includes standard HRIS integrations and SSO. SSO, SCIM and the open API come with every plan, and Enterprise adds custom integrations. You can also push skills data to Power BI, Salesforce or other tools through the open API.
How much does a competency management tool cost?
MuchSkills pricing is on request, based on the size of your organisation and what you need. SSO, SCIM and the open API come with every plan, and Enterprise adds custom integrations and a dedicated customer success manager. See the pricing page for current plans.
Is employee skills data secure and GDPR compliant?
Yes. MuchSkills is GDPR compliant and hosts customer personal data in the European Union. It does not use customer personal data to train, fine-tune or improve any third-party AI model, and its AI sub-processors are contractually barred from doing so. MuchSkills is also an approved UK government supplier on G-Cloud 14.
See your organisation's skills in one place
Book a demo and we'll show you what your own skills map looks like: who knows what, where each role has gaps and who wants to grow into them.