Zapoint, a provider of Web-based Human Capital Management (HCM) software, today announced the unveiling of SkillsMapper, a major addition to Zapoint’s Enterprise talent management suite. SkillsMapper delivers better organizational skills mapping and career management through a virtual, interactive directory of companywide skills.
Built around the company’s patent-pending LifeChart technology, SkillsMapper can increase employee engagement, better align the workforce with corporate strategy, and identify potential skills gaps in the organization. “SkillsMapper has the power to measurably increase an organization’s success potential. It works because it addresses the interests of employee and employer alike,” said Chris Twyman, CEO of Zapoint. “Employees are intensely interested in tracking and increasing their value within the enterprise, and SkillsMapper gives them an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, and eminently fair method for doing so. Yet at its core, SkillsMapper is an analytical tool for managers. It provides insightful and actionable information that is totally unique in the human resource technology realm.”
By leveraging Zapoint’s LifeChart technology, SkillsMapper gives enterprises the ability to benchmark skills by employee, department, and across the company. It offers employees a way to track their own skills in conjunction with others in the organization; for managers, SkillsMapper enables comparison of individual and group skills, measurement of competencies against corporate objectives, and the establishment of a skills inventory that can be drawn upon when needed.
Using graphical reports and charts, managers and HR practitioners can analyze current and desired department skills, identify areas in which an employee excels and/or can improve, and see how to better align the organization with critical initiatives. “Having the ability to quantify and analyze skills sounds easy, but in practice is almost impossible to do in an objective way,” said Cheryl Patnick, Founder of Capella Consulting and a twenty-year HR executive. “SkillsMapper gives enterprises a tool to be able to capture accurate skills data from an organization of any size in just days.”
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Matt Lafata, HRchitect
