How 365Talents provides Skills Interoperability with advanced integration technology

Prioritizing workforce agility and adaptability is key for today’s modern business environment. One word resonates when talking about these two essential elements: skills.

At 365Talents, we’ve always believed that Skills are the currency and common language of the future of work — and implicit and explicit skills data is waiting to be leveraged in every tool and app in your HR ecosystem.

Organizations face the difficulty of connecting skills data across multiple sources. This data is dispersed across various applications—like skills assessments, labor market data, recruiting platforms, and learning tools—both internally and externally. To enable advanced analytics and AI-driven experiences, such as personalized career recommendations, it’s essential that this data be interconnected. 

However, integrating skills data is often a complex and expensive process, requiring custom solutions that don’t always succeed. As a result, companies struggle to maximize the value of their skills-based applications.

That’s why we developed a next-generation API to integrate our platform into organizations’ HR tools, to better share skills data and obtain a real and up-to-date understanding of employees' skills and organizational development needs.

Today, we would like to introduce our cutting-edge Skills Interoperability Technology and detail why our +100 integrations mark a huge step forward in the HR Tech sphere.

What is skills interoperability and why does it matter?

Interoperability refers to the capability of systems, devices, and applications to work in harmony, exchanging and communicating information effortlessly. A product or application is considered interoperable if it delivers a seamless experience for the user, eliminating the need to repeat actions, open multiple programs, or rely on parallel systems.

Skills interoperability means a seamless integration and exchange of skills data across different systems, platforms, and applications within an organization or across multiple organizations. It ensures that skills' information—such as assessments, qualifications, certifications, and competencies—can be consistently recognized, understood, and utilized by various HR technologies, learning management systems, and talent management tools without requiring manual intervention or data re-entry. 

Interoperability ensures that organizations can quickly identify and deploy the right skills to meet emerging needs, fostering workforce agility in a rapidly changing environment. It allows employees to benefit from tailored career paths and targeted upskilling opportunities, ensuring their professional growth aligns with organizational needs. A unified approach to skills data empowers HR leaders to make informed strategic choices, enhancing the overall effectiveness of talent management.

Additionally, interoperability enhances portability by allowing individuals to carry their skills, competencies, and credentials across different systems, ensuring that records are not confined to specific institutions. This capability significantly improves accessibility, particularly for those with limited resources. Streamlining data exchange boosts efficiency by reducing the need for manual processes such as transcript requests or separate credential verifications, saving both time and effort.

The accuracy and integrity of skills data are also greatly improved, minimizing errors and reducing the risk of fraud in resumes and job applications.

By fostering a continuous, comprehensive record of learning and employment, interoperability supports lifelong learning and empowers employees to track and develop their skills over time. This holistic approach ensures that information is readily available and actionable, driving better outcomes for both individuals and organizations.

Skills interoperability facilitates better decision-making and more agile workforce management by ensuring that skills data flows smoothly across all relevant systems.

How 365Talents leads the way in skills interoperability

At 365Talents, we’ve built a platform designed to create dynamic, adaptable skills frameworks that integrate seamlessly across organizational systems.

Key features:

• Dynamic skills ontology: Our AI-powered platform builds and updates personalized skills taxonomies, integrating data from HRIS, LMS, and market trends to create a dynamic foundation for all HR systems.
• Seamless integration: Connects with over 100 HR systems, learning platforms, and tools, centralizing skills data to ensure consistent workflows and shared insights across systems.
• AI-driven insights: Advanced AI detects skill adjacencies and emerging trends, providing actionable insights for workforce planning and employee development.
• Global & multilingual compatibility: Supports more than 45 languages, ensuring skills data is accessible and relevant for multinational teams managing diverse, region-specific needs.
• Scalable framework: Automatically updates and evolves as your organization grows, keeping HR systems aligned with the latest skills, roles, and business needs.

Aligning with workforce trends

The workplace is evolving, and organizations must adapt to keep pace. Skills interoperability aligns with several key workforce trends:

• Skills-Based Organizations: Roles are increasingly built around skills rather than static job titles, emphasizing adaptability.
• Upskilling and Reskilling: Seamless skills data integration enables personalized learning paths to keep employees competitive.
• Workforce Agility: Interoperability empowers organizations to respond quickly to new opportunities and challenges by leveraging real-time skills insights.

Tackling industry challenges with interoperability

Many organizations face significant hurdles in managing and unifying skills data. These challenges often stem from siloed systems and inconsistent data frameworks.
Common challenges could be:

• Disconnected systems that make it difficult to share and act on skills data.
• Outdated skills frameworks that fail to reflect current and future needs.

Here’s how 365Talents tackle them:

• A centralized platform that acts as the single source of truth for skills data.
• Real-time updates and AI-powered insights to keep skills frameworks relevant and actionable.
• Improved internal mobility and workforce planning through enhanced data visibility.

Skills technology to the next level

365Talents now has the capability to standardize skills data from external sources, linking it to other skills even when multiple definitions are present. We also securely integrate skills data from various external sources into our platform. Additionally, our customers can export skill-level data from 365Talents to external systems, tailored to the way those systems process skills data.

Driving impact through collaboration and strategic partnerships

365Talents understands that true interoperability requires collaboration. By partnering with other HR tech platforms, we ensure that skills data flows seamlessly across systems to maximize its impact.

So we’re building strategic partnerships, including some collaborations with leading HRIS and learning management platforms. You can check our dedicated integrations page for more information about it.

Bringing business intelligence to customers with skills interoperability

+100 integrations for a seamless skills data exchange

365Talents is Europe’s most integrated AI-powered talent management platform with over 100 integrations into HR stacks. 

Optimize communication between our platform and the rest of your tech stack with frictionless integration, enriching your 365Talents frameworks and suggestions with your existing data and supercharging your compatible solutions with insights from our AI.

365Talents integrates with all the HR solutions in your tech stack to centralize and share skills data across your HR ecosystem.

You can connect 365Talents to your existing HR software and workflow apps. Via API, you can leverage our advanced AI to get actionable insights and prompt employee engagement using skills data from across your network.

Data-driven success stories

Organizations using 365Talents have reported measurable improvements in:

• Internal mobility: Faster and more accurate talent deployment.
• Employee retention: Enhanced engagement through personalized development opportunities.
• Operational efficiency: Reduced redundancy and improved alignment of skills with business needs.

Real-world examples:

One global bank used 365Talents to integrate its skills framework across multiple regions, resulting in 1,200+  assessments completed since the integration

In a highly competitive environment, with a drive to attract talent and boost the employer brand, and also with an employee's desire to have an impact on the company, this global bank faced two main challenges: 

• Employee retention
• Employee engagement in the company.

The company has launched a corporate project based on a collaborative approach to personalize professional projects. They wanted to put in place a structuring approach that would fit into the company's HR eco-system, give employees visibility and put them in the driver’s seat of their own careers. 

365Talents has introduced AssessFirst integration, giving the opportunity for employees to assess themselves directly within the 365Talents platform, and to add the skills associated with the assessment results into their profiles.

The main benefits:

• It helps HR and managers when having career or development discussion
• Employees now have everything they use to build their professional project in the same place.

The project now provides visibility on career paths for employees, employees have a seamless experience under the 365Talents platform and HR support career discussions and internal mobility processes, resulting in 3,000+ views of assessment by HR/managers and employees since the integration. Learn more by downloading the full case study.

Privacy and security for secured skills data

At 365Talents, we understand the importance of safeguarding sensitive information and adhere to stringent security standards to ensure data integrity and compliance.

So, here’s how we protect your data:

• All data is encrypted both at rest and in transit, ensuring that sensitive skills and employee information remain secure from unauthorized access.
• Our platform is fully compliant with GDPR and other global data privacy regulations, giving organizations confidence in meeting legal requirements.
• Role-based access ensures that only authorized personnel can view or edit specific data, protecting confidentiality and preventing data misuse.
• We employ advanced monitoring systems to detect and respond to potential security threats in real time, ensuring the platform’s resilience.
• Frequent security audits and vulnerability assessments help us maintain and improve our security infrastructure.

365Talents is committed to ethical data handling practices. We ensure that employees' personal information is used solely for intended purposes, such as career development, upskilling, and workforce planning. This approach fosters trust and transparency between organizations and their employees.
By prioritizing security and privacy, 365Talents not only protects sensitive information but also enables organizations to leverage their skills data with confidence. This ensures that businesses can focus on achieving their strategic goals without compromising on security.

Skills interoperability is not just a buzzword, it’s a necessity for organizations aiming to stay competitive in an ever-changing business landscape. With 365Talents, you can unlock the full potential of your workforce by integrating and leveraging skills data like never before.

Take the next step

Ready to future-proof your organization? Discover how 365Talents can help you achieve true skills interoperability. Contact us today to learn more.