Posts Categorized: General

A marriage made for you

We are celebrating to coming together of two of our most successful tools, SkillsProfiler and Validateskills test tool. assessment setting. We can now combine the IT profiling to to hold dedicated exams/tests to be made available to a particular audience. Take our IT skills profiling tool and allow for tests/exams to be allocated to each…

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The SFIA Foundation has launched the latest release – Version 8 – of its world renowned ‘Skills Framework for the Information Age’. At Assess Management  (ValidateSkills.com), we are ahead of the game!  Our electronic SFIA tools, such as our ‘Job Role Builder’ and our online objective ‘SFIA Skills Tests’, are Version 8 ready!  For those…

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NEW – ‘ITSA Extra’!

The SFIA Foundation released a case study recently, reporting on the success of the British Army in using SFIA in a rather innovative way with the help of an accredited SFIA Partner. Well that Partner was US!  We have been working with the MoD for over a year providing our SFIA consultancy service, but also…

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What a few months it has been. The news and devastating effects of the recent outbreak have left many businesses in a very interesting position. Standard operating practices have changed, possibly forever. So we are left in this situation, a wide-scale adoption of a “Working From Home” policy in pretty much every organisation. It has…

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¡Hola! We are pleased to announce that a brand-new language has been added to our SFIA self-assessment IT Skills Analysis (‘ITSA’) tool! Spanish is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world, with roughly 460 million speakers in 31 countries. It ranks 2nd in the list of most popular languages (according to the…

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We’ve gone Green!

Introducing the ITSA “Green Report”….. We are excited to tell you about a new option to add to the many benefits that our ‘IT Skills Analysis’ (ITSA) product delivers. ITSA’s self-assessment questionnaire reveals each IT employee’s understanding of the skills they deploy in their current role, using the SFIA Framework to define them.  It is…

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It’s natural that if you want to use a self-assessment tool to analyse the skills of your IT workforce against the SFIA Framework, then the questionnaire needs to be entirely focused on the Framework. Or is it?  What if you have competencies outside of the Framework that you also want to analyse? At ValidateSkills.com, yet…

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As you look ahead at the year to come, what improvements to your management processes could you make that would boost business performance? For example, how effective are your staff appraisals?  Are they a pain or do they represent gain? So often, the agenda at an appraisal is too vague.  The discussion often revolves around…

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