Rightskill your workforce
Give everyone visibility of how their skills can drive their next, and future, career moves. Enable progression by deploying and developing people with intent. All automated with robust labour market data.
Driving up-skilling and re-skilling for
Retain talent and drive progression
45% of resignations are driven by a lack of career opportunity. Keep your best people by giving employees the ability to explore how they can best use their skills and experience to progress their career.
Stop manually creating career pathways
Simply’s data-driven approach saves HR time and money by automating the creation of career pathways across your company. Based on the similarity of skills between roles and their relative seniority and pay levels.
L&D: It can be 6x cheaper to build not buy
Avoid costly hiring when it isn’t necessary. Simply joins your data on current roles with externally validated career pathways, you can spot opportunities to build talent at a better price point.
HRDs: Identify feasible options to redeploy talent
Explore the most common routes into and out of any role, giving an end-to-end view of career mobility and progression opportunities. Proactively support people to transition from redundant or declining jobs.
TAQ: Uncover hidden talent and fill tricky roles
Hunting a ‘purple unicorn’? Use role similarity scores to find the roles and people most likely to have the right skills you’re looking for. Deploy with confidence.
“Our Career Explorer, powered by Simply, enables employees to explore thousands of ways to develop their career with Finastra. It was a quick, non-disruptive way to turn the dial where it really matters: strengthening our critical skills and roles. ”
Samantha Carruthers, Skills COE Director, Finastra
How it works
Highly robust role and skill similarity data is generated from hundreds of millions of talent profiles and job adverts every year.
The overlap of skills between different roles is calculated based on the top 50 skills most popular for each role
Career histories from talent profiles and the typical pay and seniority of the roles informs the direction of possible progression
Both lateral and vertical moves are identified
The data set can be configured to reflect your organisation structure and job architecture by linking in your HR data
Data can be fed to and from operational HR or Talent Marketplace systems to enhance and accelerate their value
Plan progression not just succession
Work out your bench strength across all roles, not just the most senior ones. Pinpoint where you lack the skills you need to deliver your business outcomes.
Balance control and exploration
Use trustworthy data to guide managers and employees when exploring adjacent roles and potential next steps. Align employee growth with business growth and priorities.
Break down silos and change mindsets
By knowing how skills and roles are similar to one another, you can open new opportunities to build the right skills via learning, re-skilling and up-skilling.
No talent marketplace? No problem
Simply’s data-led approach is a complement to a talent marketplace solution. No need to wait for all employees to complete profiles. Give them the options now, in as little as two weeks.
