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 BasicBasicBasicSustainable engineeringTechnical writingTechnology applicationWorkplace safety and health framework development and implementation * Skills Future Singapore structures technical skills into six levels, which have been classified into Basic (Level 1-2), Intermediate (Level 3-4), and Advanced (Level 5-6) for this example. Global Skills Taxonomy Adoption Toolkit 23