Workforce planning baseline
Provides a consistent picture of documented skills across the workforce, including how many people hold each skill and the proficiency levels supported by the evidence.
— Organisation & Workforce
Skills Audit
Builds an evidence-linked inventory of documented workforce skills, showing their breadth, recorded proficiency and concentrations to support workforce planning.
- Organisation & Workforce
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1–2 weeks → ~15 minutes
For a typical multi-document review workflow
No coding required
- Input
- Employee CVs and professional profiles
- Output
- Consolidated inventory of documented workforce skills
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1–2 weeks per run
— USE CASES
What people use Skills Audit for
Critical skills resilience
Highlights thin coverage, concentrations and skills documented for only one person. Supports discussions about succession, knowledge transfer and delivery resilience.
Development investment priorities
Identifies areas where documented capability is limited or proficiency is uneven, giving learning and development discussions a clearer evidence base.
Workforce capability review
Consolidates differently worded skills under a consistent classification, with source references that help reviewers substantiate findings and identify evidence gaps.
What it works from
- Employee CVs and professional profiles
- Job descriptions and role specifications
- Workforce skills records
- Documented proficiency assessments
What you get back
- Consolidated inventory of documented workforce skills
- Consistent skill names with supporting source references
- Skills classification covering technical, digital and data, business and commercial, leadership and people, and interpersonal capabilities
- Skill-holder counts and evidence-supported proficiency levels by skill, where documented in people records rather than role requirements alone, with incomplete evidence clearly distinguished from confirmed absence of capability across the workforce under review; source references retained for scrutiny and reuse
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Skills Audit produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Whole sets of risk registers, controls and policy documents at once
All of your risk registers, controls and policy documents is processed as one set, so patterns across documents surface instead of being read one file at a time.
Composed as work product
Findings on the risk universe in scope are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a risk.
Delivered as a working table
The risks land as a clean table you can sort, filter or drop straight into the deliverable.
Why this is expensive by hand
Workforce skills evidence is often scattered across CVs, profiles, job descriptions and internal records, with inconsistent terminology making comparisons difficult. Workforce planning baseline is the typical trigger — provides a consistent picture of documented skills across the workforce, including how many people hold each skill and the proficiency levels supported by the evidence. Get it right and the conclusion holds up in the room; get it rushed and it gets picked apart. Either way it costs roughly 1–2 weeks of experienced attention.
How this Skill produces it
Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; consolidated inventory of documented workforce skills comes out, alongside consistent skill names with supporting source references. What sits between input and output is the codified method: thresholds, sequencing and the points where a human confirms a call — all of it visible and editable in the Skill. In effect, 1–2 weeks of senior time compresses into ~15 minutes — and the output is comparable across clients, quarters and colleagues instead of shaped by whoever ran it.
Who it's for
- Org design and workforce planning leads
- COOs and functional leaders reshaping teams
- Transformation consultants sizing people impact
- HR business partners supporting redesign
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Skills Audit exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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