# Skills-Thoughts

## Skills-Thoughts

- [Skills Thoughts](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/master.md): "Skills" are the fundamental construct governing talent development and talent deployment. In this workspace IYS explores the challenges with skills and IYS's solutions to address them.
- [Need for Quality Skills Data](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/need-for-quality-skills-data.md): We will explore one function of HR -  Recruitment and examine the root cause of its poor efficiency.
- [Introduction](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/introduction.md): Skills is a messy data type to handle. Added to this, the way skills have been used or have emerged, has increased the problems in handling them.
- [Issues with Skills Nomenclature](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/issues-with-skills-nomenclature.md)
- [Issues in Parsing Skills](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/issues-in-parsing-skills.md)
- [Skills Landscape](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/skills-landscape.md)
- [Issues in Treating Skills as Discrete Entities](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/issues-in-treating-skills-as-discrete-entities.md)
- [Aggregation and Approximation](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/aggregation-and-approximation.md)
- [Ownership of skills](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/ownership-of-skills.md)
- [Introduction](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/iys-solution-to-issues-with-skills/introduction.md): IYS has created a Skills and Occupations Taxonomy (backend) and a Skills Profiler (frontend) that together enable creating of comprehensive skills profiles of people and jobs.
- [IYS Skills Profile](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/iys-solution-to-issues-with-skills/iys-skills-profile.md): A simple presentation of skills and proficiencies in skills, paving way for powerful analytics and thereon, superior Human Capital Management.
- [IYS Skills Profiler](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/iys-solution-to-issues-with-skills/iys-skills-profiler.md): A tool for mapping of skills - of people and jobs. The backend has a constantly updated Skills Taxonomy and the frontend an intuitive UI. Goal is to enable comprehensive profiling easy and precise.
- [A common terminology of Skills](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/iys-solution-to-issues-with-skills/a-common-terminology-of-skills.md): Skills space need a normalization. IYS has considered different scenarios and implemented ways to take care of the normalization of skills terms
- [A framework for Skills Profile](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/iys-solution-to-issues-with-skills/a-framework-for-skills-profile.md): IYS adopts some of the existing frameworks on competencies or capabilities to use a framework on skills for organizing skills without formalizing the framework itself
- [Skills Proficiencies](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/iys-solution-to-issues-with-skills/skills-proficiencies.md): IYS uses a standard four point scale with a variable measures of the scale for different categories of skills.
- [Design of the Skills Organization](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/iys-solution-to-issues-with-skills/design-of-the-skills-organization.md): IYS Skills Ontology design takes into consideration the variables that go into skills profiling, fluid natures of skills organization and complexities of relationships in the skills landscape.
- [Constant Updation](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/iys-solution-to-issues-with-skills/constant-updation.md): IYS is committed to researching on skills and constantly enriching the Skills and Occupations Taxonomy. And there is a process for curation of skills and updating ISOT.
- [Applications of Skills Profile](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/iys-solution-to-issues-with-skills/applications-of-skills-profile.md): IYS Skills Profile is a powerful data set for the skills landscape that can be applied in multiple use cases in the realms of the Human Capital space
- [Introduction to IYS Skills Taxonomy](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/skills-taxonomy-construct/introduction-to-iys-skills-taxonomy.md): IYS Skills Taxonomy is a database of "skills". Many of the facets of the Skills Taxonomy have been discussed in the previous section. Here we will go little bit more into the technical aspects.
- [Layer 1 - Unique Skills](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/skills-taxonomy-construct/layer-1-unique-skills.md): In this layer "skills" are aggregated, cleaned and normalized.
- [Layer 2 - Master](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/skills-taxonomy-construct/layer-2-master.md): "Skills" terms are grouped based on their relevance.
- [Layer 3 - Association](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/skills-taxonomy-construct/layer-3-association.md): Skills and skills groups are organized and assigned different properties. There are three types or organization and several properties that can be assigned to nodes.
- [Properties to Skills](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/skills-taxonomy-construct/properties-to-skills.md): Different properties can be assigned to skills. Properties impact the way the skills are rendered in the frontend, information collected from the users and others.
- [Process for Constructing Areas](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/skills-taxonomy-construct/process-for-constructing-areas.md): Areas of functions are bringing terms and  groups of terms in knowledge, expertise with tools & technologies, activities, domain experience and operational role as applicable for the area.
- [Skills Updation Process](https://docs.itsyourskills.com/skills-thoughts/skills-taxonomy-construct/skills-updation-process.md): Skills are constantly collected from different sources and inclusion of new skills in ISOT is done following a certain process.