Integrate Skills and Competencies into Your Job Architecture
The Clarity You Need to Align People, Roles, and Business Needs
Salary.com's consultants help you embed skills and competencies into job descriptions, leveling guides, and career paths—so you can unlock workforce flexibility, support internal mobility, and manage compensation with precision.
Skills and Competencies Give You the Full Picture
When skills and competencies are integrated into role design, HR and compensation leaders gain the clarity needed to align workforce capabilities with business goals.
Optimize Compensation Spend
Tie pay more closely to the actual value employees deliver—based on the skills they bring and the competencies they demonstrate—rather than relying solely on job titles or levels.
Streamline Succession Planning and Talent Development
Identify skill gaps and high-potential talent with greater accuracy, making it easier to plan for the future and invest in targeted development—especially when budgets are tight.
Pro-Actively Build the Skills Critical to Your Future Success
Prioritize capabilities that matter most to your organizational strategy and proactively close talent gaps—rather than reacting to them once they’ve become business risks.
Create a More Resilient, Future-Ready Organization
Gain the agility to reassign, upskill, or promote employees based on evolving needs—without defaulting to expensive hiring or restructuring.
Our Process: Strategic Integration to Support Clarity and Agility
Our methodology helps you integrate skills and competencies into your job architecture in a way that drives alignment, improves planning, and supports agility—without disrupting what’s already working.
We collaborate with key stakeholders at every stage of the process to ensure solutions are relevant, practical, and adopted across the organization.
Here’s what a typical engagement looks like:
Initial Assessment
- Analyze existing job architecture, leveling guides, and job descriptions.
- Review current competency models and frameworks for consistency and gaps.
- Identify misalignments between roles, responsibilities, and business goals.
Skills and Competency Identification
- Leverage CompAnalyst(qt)’s Skills and Competencies Library to define core and organizational competencies.
- Identify functional or technical competencies unique to specific job families or sub-families.
- Create level-based competencies to distinguish roles by complexity, scope and proficiency.
Mapping Skills and Competencies to the Job Architecture
- Map skills and competencies to job families, functions, and career levels.
- Establish proficiency standards to support progression and internal mobility.
- Integrate emerging or future-focused skills to stay ahead of market demands.
Documentation and Enablement
- Embed key skills and competencies into job descriptions, clearly outlining required skills, competencies, and proficiency levels.
- Update job summaries, responsibilities, and qualifications to reflect integrated competencies.
- Ensure job documentation provides clarity and transparency for performance evaluations, career pathing, and recruitment.
You Will Get
- Updated job architecture and leveling framework with detailed integration of skills and competencies.
- Revised and standardized job documentation, ensuring usability across HR processes.
- Skills and competency library, leveling guidelines, and a proficiency matrix to support consistency and future updates.
Why Choose Salary.com’s Consultants
Diversified and Experienced Team
Our individual consultants have decades of experience in a variety of industries. We have the knowledge and skills to help you in your specific organization, industry, and circumstances.
High-Touch Communication
Clear communication is a cornerstone of our process, and we will be with you every step of the way. Our team of consultants are available to provide guidance and support.
Salary.com’s Powerful Solutions
We leverage Salary.com’s industry-leading total compensation management platform, making full use of its trusted data and award-winning compensation solutions.
An Extra Set of Hands
Serious analysis is a big undertaking that all too often gets pushed to the bottom of the to-do list. This is a mistake, and everyone knows it, but sometimes your internal team just can’t get the time. Our consultants provide the extra resources and expertise to implement your compensation initiatives.
Third-Party Neutrality
Bringing in outside help demonstrates your commitment to fairness, transparency, and impartiality. It also guarantees a level of discretion not always possible within an organization.
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