Global Skills Taxonomy Adoption Toolkit 2025

Skills-first hiring incorporates skills into the recruitment process, enabling organizations to identify the best candidates, improve job performance and productivity, and promote inclusivity. By using skills taxonomies, organ-izations can map specific skills and proficien-cy levels to job roles, creating a more precise and effective hiring framework. To harness the full potential of skills-first hiring, organizations can refine their job descriptions by: 2 –Consistently emphasizing skills and compe - tencies in job postings. –Clearly dif ferentiating between required and preferred skills. –Removing formal degr ee requirements where appropriate. –Eliminating biased language, using clearterms, and including an equal-access orinclusivity statement. The following is an example of what a skills-based job r ole can look like, developed by SkillsFuture Singapore:5Key insight 5: How to embed skills and proficiency levels in job descriptions Technical skills and competencies Skill Proficency* SkillTop 5 generic skills and competencies Proficency Intermediate Basic BasicIntermediateIntermediateBasic Basic Basic BasicBasic3D modelling (Level 3)Continuous improvement management (Level 2) Data and statistical analyticsDesign for safetyEngineering drawing and design specificationEngineering drawing interpretation and management Environmental management system frame- work development and implementation Hazards and risk identification and management Programme managementQuality system managementDigital literacyTeamwork Virtual collaborationComputational thinkingCommunicationIntermediateAdvanced IntermediateBasicBasic Global Skills Taxonomy Adoption Toolkit 22