Dear Bindu :
Skills Gap & Competency gap interchangebly will have a very neast relation. However, Skill Gap is the area focussing mainly on a specified activity. For e.g. I am good in Excel or Power point. How effectively I can do this can be seen. This means we can see the result. The result would be ultimate report. Here two things we can observe. 1) Knowledge is a learned ability which we can not see - it is an intangible asset. However, the skill is an ability gettting by virtue of our knowledge. However, both are having very close association. 2) However, Skill - you can see the result.
Now, I explain about the skill Gap Vs. Competency Gap.
Skill Gap is bascially talks about specific. Actual Vs. Desired
I take Oracle 8i is the skill that may be required for an Software Engineer. The mapping would be as follows :
Actual Desired Gap
Rating Rating
Engineer - 2 5 -3
Sr. Engineer 3 6 -3
This means for every role one has to define the rating along with definitions. It can be Basic, Standard, Advanced, Expert etc.
Howeve, when we talk about competency it describes not only the skills, knowledge, attitude, motives, etc.
Also one has to set the following attributes like
- Functional / Technical Competencies
- Functional / Generic Behaviours
- Leadership / Managerial behaviours etc.
Ultimately competency mapping is for the purpose of in order to deliver a superior performance by utilising our skills, knowledge etc.
Though the above is not sufficient to some extent it would be helpful for your query.
Regds,
Srinivas
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