The Skills Coverage Paradox
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The State of Job & Skills Data Governance 2026
HR teams don’t have a skills data problem—they have a governance problem.
Our research with 227 senior HR leaders reveals a striking paradox: even organizations with the highest skills coverage are preparing major governance overhauls.
Why? Because coverage alone isn’t delivering clarity, consistency, or trust in decisions.
This 44-page report uncovers what’s really breaking job and skills data—and the operating model that finally fixes it.
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What's inside?
A concise, executive-ready breakdown of the frameworks, operating models, and metrics HR leaders need to close skills gaps, reduce exceptions, and strengthen pay & mobility decisions—rooted in the latest research.
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The Skills Gap Landscape
What today’s HR leaders are up against.
See how fragmented job architectures, inconsistent definitions, and missing lineage create compensation drift, mobility friction, and audit exposure—and why governance is now a must-have, not a nice-to-have. -
The Operating Model That Fixes It
The practical blueprint for governing job & skills data.
Learn the end-to-end model used by leading organizations: ownership, approvals, version history, lineage, templates, and field-level data contracts. Includes a 90-day rollout plan for HR, Total Rewards, and HRIT. -
Board-Ready Metrics That Prove Impact
How to show measurable improvement in equity, mobility, and cycle time.
A compact metric set—equity variance, mobility, comp exceptions, and integration health—plus formulas, SLAs, and real-world examples showing how governed data cuts rework and strengthens executive credibility.
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