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Key Principles for Building a Skills Framework

Skills frameworks are easy to start but they are hard to sustain. Without clear design principles, skills data fragments quickly and loses credibility.
This guide covers:
Why skills must be mapped to real work first
How to anchor skills in a job architecture
The six data components every framework needs
How skills evolve across career tracks
This guide sets out the four design principles we believe are essential for building a skills framework that lasts
  • Design Principle 1: Map the Work First
  • Design Principle 2: Anchoring Skills in a Job Architecture
  • Design Principle 3: Create a Data Foundation for Skills
  • Design Principle 4: Consider how skills map across families & career tracks
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