Engage Your Workforce Today: Learning the Agile Way

Olivier Pestel
AVP Solution Consulting, Cornerstone Asia Pacific Japan

HR Tech Festival Asia 2020

Learning Is The Accelerator

COVID-19
Accelerant
Consequences of Disruption
Challenges in the ‘New Normal’

Superjobs Organizations
jobs that combine traditional are becoming less hierarchical
jobs and leverage technology and working in teams
to gain efficiency and
productivity

85
35% works in Teams
%
65% Hierarchical
(some cross functional teams)
of Our Global Future Jobs
Don’t Even Exist Today
VOA News 2019 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends
Consequences of Disruption
How to adapt to the ‘Next Normal’

Upskilling Reskilling New Jobs

Develop skills Develop Develop
to continue new skills to new skills for
to perform in move to a new jobs.
the current different job.
Identify
job.
candidates
matching
those skills.
What do you need to Reskill?
Continuous cycle

Identify Skills Gaps

▪ Do you know your
baseline?
Employee
▪ What is your skills inventory? Data

▪ Design new jobs Skills

Skills Training
▪ Upskill and reskill current Framework Content
employees
Recommend
Consume
▪ Onboard candidates on Training
Training based
jobs on Skill Gap
The Holy Grail of Reskilling
Continuous Mapping of the Elements

SUBJECTS

POSITIONS SKILLS
Reskilling: a crucial but still unsolved topic for
most companies

Complex to understand Incomplete Constantly evolving

Up to 50+ synonyms and 30+ 80% of job descriptions and Emergence of new skills and
homonyms for a skill , up to 90% employee profiles are the obsolescence of others.
of unique job titles. incomplete in HR systems.

HR BPs and Managers need to Career data (skills, job titles,

understand the skills behind the descriptions, education,..) is
resume. still an unexplored field of
application for machine
learning.
Reskilling: Benefits with technology
Process Industrialization

Skills
Time to build Time to Time to build Employee
Taxonomy
a Skills identify Skill and identify willingness to
continuously
Taxonomy Gaps the content share skills
evolves

Prepopulated
Prepopulated
skills taxonomy
skills content
with more 53k Remove bias Industrialized
Automatic Skills resources
skills identified and human process
detection using aggregated
using AI on 20 concerns using continuously
AI. from multiple
years of HR AI. updated.
vendors and
Data of various
sources.
sources.
 Employee Skills Genome Detection
Growing the Knowledge About our Employees

27 related skills from

a list of > 53,000
▪ Job Titles Typical
14 critical skills from
▪ Job Descriptions parsed resume Example of
▪ Employee Resume 87 specific interests Skill Detection
▪ Employee Profile from search and
knowledge behavior
Over 130 skill
ratings and related
experiences
20 characteristics
from a Personality
Assessment
Getting skills right is not easy
Design Guidelines

Universal Multi-lingual
describes skills from every translation across multiple
industry at the most granular languages
level

Normalized Open
consolidation 250k user- Users can add new skills as
entered skills into 53k synonyms of an existing skill
common and verified skills. or as new entry

Correlated Dynamic
identify related skills and continuously learning and
reveal their relationship and evolving thanks to our users
proximity
 Our skills framework is the result of a 6-steps labor-intensive funnel

01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06.

Scrapping Normalization Curation Distance Clustering Filtering
250k skills Gathered into
Semi-
calculation Hierarchically Contextually
individually 53k inter-
automatic Statistically clustered disambiguated
scrapped lingual
curation described

53k skills
concept

framework
Cornerstone Skills Taxonomy

216+
+53k 1.3B
Skills
+2,5 Tb
data set industries
key skills (250,000 unique) (Indeed, Monster & Linked)
identified 200+
using AI
250M 750M
countries
(synonyms, acronyms
& proximity)
individual
careers
job titles
(10M unique)
100+
languages
People Development Unlocked
Learning & Capabilities

Targeted Learning Connect to Upskill Faster

Content Experts

Use skills to enhance Search and find peers with Reference tailored learning
content varying levels of expertise paths to continually your
recommendations, and in a skill and collaborate to increase expertise across
tailor detailed learning upskill. desirable skillsets.
paths by expertise level.
4

The Employee Experience

Holistic & Connected Journey

Learning Experience Development Paths

Internal Mobililty Careers check-ins

Career Planning
Assessments

Learning Playlists Communities of Practice

To Learn and Develop in the Flow of Work

Thank You!