You Don't Know What Your Skills Are Worth Because You Don't Know What Skills You Have

What you'll learn:

Are you struggling to accurately assess your team's skills and their value? Join us for a discussion in our Total Rewards webinar series, where we explore the critical connection between skills inventory and compensation strategies.

In this session, titled "You Don't Know Where Your Skills Are, and What They're Worth, Because You Don't Know What Skills You Have," our expert panel dives deep into the challenges faced by HR teams in implementing skills-based pay.

Key topics covered include:

The disconnect between evolving job roles and outdated job descriptions, highlighting the urgency for accurate skills documentation.
The importance of aligning skills requirements with compensation bands and identifying where skill premiums should apply.
Actionable steps for HR leaders, including a pilot program focused on documenting skill requirements within a specific job family and conducting a classification audit.

By the end of this webinar, you will gain valuable insights into the foundational elements necessary for developing a robust skills-based pay framework. Understand how to identify skill gaps and leverage structured data to inform compensation decisions, ultimately enhancing your organization's talent management strategy.

About the presenter(s)

Paul Smith

Solutions Consultant, JDXpert

Paul Smith SHRM-CP is a Solutions Consultant at JDXpert, where he leads initiatives that modernize how organizations define, manage, and operationalize skills across their workforce. With a background that bridges HR strategy, product development, and systems integration, Paul helps companies turn static job data into dynamic, skills-based intelligence that supports better hiring, development, and pay decisions.

Melissa Duncan

VP of People, JDXpert

Melissa has 14+ years of experience delivering business value through idea-to-scale instructional leadership and facilitation, meticulous project management, and strategic executive-level relationship management within early-stage organizations.

As the Vice President of People at JDXpert, Melissa is responsible for the employee experience. Her passion for building a people-first culture has been the driving force behind her engaging strategies that motivate, support and fulfill team members. In her day-to-day role, Melissa wears multiple hats, ranging from developing hiring plans, coaching and mentoring employees to help them identify and foster their core strengths, working with senior leadership on organizational design to meet and exceed business goals, and managing compliance, performance, benefits, and compensation programs.

Melissa received her undergraduate degree from Queens University of Charlotte and went on to earn an M.B.A from Wake Forest University.