Accelerate your skills taxonomy
Build and maintain a dynamic, market-aligned skill taxonomy using Simply’s Skill Library. Powered by robust data, always up-to-date, and easy to use.
Powering the common language of skills at
Your common language for skills
Your skill taxonomy is the heart of a skills-centred approach. It captures the skills that matter to your organisation, organises them, and defines them. This enables your business and HR teams to use a common and consistent language for decisions about work, that is aligned to the external market.
Always up-to-date and market-aligned
Simply’s out-the-box skills taxonomy is powered by over 500 million job posts and talent profiles. You gain an accurate, up-to-date view of the skills that matter. Refreshed every two weeks.
Your time is precious… don’t waste it
Don’t spend months in meetings to define a skills list which is then already out of date. Configure and edit Simply’s taxonomy in as little as two weeks, then get on with driving skill and business outcomes.
Know the skills of tomorrow
Don’t get left behind. Simply predicts the growth and decline of skills, enabling you to look ahead with confidence, building a future-ready taxonomy.
Integrates with role profiles and benchmarks
Use the taxonomy to pinpoint the skills required for each role in your company, and benchmark your focus areas agaisnt your competitors.
“The differentiator for us was Simply’s ability to drive decisions with real insights. The projected growth and decline of skills gave us a future focus for our workforce strategy.”
Workforce Strategy Lead, Telecomms and Media Company
Why people need a skills taxonomy
A common skills taxnomy is important because it enables the business and HR to speak the same language, prioritise with common understanding, and execute with clarity.
Why your stakeholders care:
CEO/ Manging Director: 3 in 4 are worried about a lack of the right skills inhibiting business growth (PwC, 2021)
CHRO/ HR Director: Enables HR activities to be joined up directly with building capabilities the business needs, now and tomorrow.
Talent Acquisition: Gives specific, actionable detail that helps attract the right candidates, improve fill rates and reduce time to hire.
Learning & Development: Target learning budget at developing the skills the business needs for today’s work and tomorrow’s growth.
Reward: Provide a basis to differentiate pay by skills which is rooted in the language and reality of the labour market.
Employees & Managers: Help people know what skills them stay employed, develop and progress their career.
Org Dev & Talent: Unlock new ways to drive organisational effectiveness and efficiency, and build talent you need for the future.
Analytics & SWP: Power workforce planning and analysis with reliable and consistent insight.
Find the ‘Goldilocks’ level of detail
Choose from 32,000 skills, sorted into Families and Clusters to make them easy to work with. Each skill has a simple definition, so everyone knows what they’re talking about.
Search and explore related skills
By knowing how skills relate to one another, you can open new opportunities for learning, re-skilling and up-skilling.
Define your critical capabilities
A skills taxonomy is a foundation. Achieving your business goals means building critical capabilities. Define yours using Simply’s Skills Framework and Benchmarking capabilities.
Trust and credibility:
the Simply Skills Library
Dynamic
Our skills are drawn from millions of real world job postings and public talent profiles.
Extensive
Technical and transferable skills are included across 33 skill families, covering all industries.
Organised
Skill families and clusters keep things simple. The top related skills function makes exploration easy.
Robust
All skills are reviewed by a world-class team of labour market experts and economists.