10am Assessing the student

Jobs do not, of course, exist in isolation. Information about jobs is only relevant when it is compared to information about the people that currently hold them, or might hold them in the future.

We now know what competencies, qualifications and licenses are required for each job. Our next task is to find out what competencies, qualifications and licenses our people have. An LMS can help you in doing this in a number of ways: by recording the competencies, qualifications and licenses that a person already holds; by listing the requirements of a person’s current job or a job that they aspire to; by enabling the person themselves, their manager, peers or subordinates to rate them against these requirements; by delivering online assessments linked to job requirements; by recording course completions that are linked to job requirements; by recording a person’s aspirations for their future career; by recording a profile of the user’s learning preferences in terms of method, locations and times.