SkillsGraph

What is SkillsGraph?

Powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology, SkillsGraph is a dynamic workforce skills data asset from Aon that provides customized skills insights and benchmarking for companies looking to be a skills-based organization.

SkillsGraph extracts the most sought after in-demand skills directly from millions of job postings and seamlessly maps this data to an organizations’ internal roles and to Aon’s Radford McLagan Compensation Database Job catalog. Thousands of leading companies around the world already rely on Aon’s job taxonomy, and now organizations can leverage this same job taxonomy to map key skills to every role in their workforce. This process enables a high-quality, external benchmarking approach that quickly and efficiently identifies the skills that are critical to business success. A solid foundation that aligns skills to jobs is a crucial first step in a journey to becoming skills forward. As your skills journey continues, Aon has the expertise to assist you with solutions that build on your skills foundation, including job architecture, assessments, change management, communications, and workforce transformation. Aon is uniquely positioned to deliver holistic solutions in all these areas and more.

Why is SkillsGraph Important?

The evolution of the talent landscape has placed a greater emphasis on skills-based workforce strategies. SkillsGraph skills data can be aligned to jobs in an organization’s HRIS platform, allowing you to streamline cumbersome processes and place the focus where it belongs: becoming a skills-based organization, without the need to purchase additional software and platforms.

With SkillsGraph, you can manage talent by:

• Governing and maintaining a market-referenced skills taxonomy, including a proprietary mapping of Aon’s Radford McLagan Compensation Database taxonomy
• Accelerating the journey to skills-focused strategies for recruitment, assessment, compensation, rewards, and other talent management initiatives by delivering agile and scalable solutions
• Leveraging Aon’s expertise to validate and refine external skills data, ensuring applicability to your roles and confirming that your skills data is a reliable input into talent decision making
• Increasing alignment between your workforce’s capabilities and your company’s ever-changing needs by supporting you with access to SkillsGraph data and advisory support throughout your journey: Skills efforts are not “one and done”
• Embedding skills across your organization’s HRIS applications, including access to our badged Workday integration
• Enhancing career mobility by and connecting employees with the appropriate skills to their next role, career path, and projects

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.