skills audit / competence profiling

Process of analysing knowledge, skills and competences, work experience and motivations of an individual, to identify his/her training needs, define a career project or prepare a retraining / reskilling plan.

Comment

A skills audit aims to help individuals:

analyse their career background;
self-assess their position in the labour environment;
define their training needs;
prepare themselves for validation of non-formal or informal learning outcomes;
plan their career pathway.

Source

Cedefop.