Skills Inventory and Gap Analysis Skills Inventory and Gap

Skills Inventory and Gap
Analysis
Skills Inventory and Gap
Analysis
Damon Vierra
BUS340 - Business
Communications
Professor - Dr. Jennifer Cohea
April 8, 2019

Introduction
• Marketing
• Customer
development and
orientation
• Promotional strategy
building operations
• Mentoring
• Negotiation
• Relationship
building

Important skills for an individual students
to structure their desired professional
development process
• Communication and
interpersonal skills
• Teamwork and
flexibility
• Strong work ethics
and leadership
abilities
• Dependability and
maturity

Skills required to be attained in order to
eliminate the gaps in Existing Skill Set
• Adaptability
to the
operational
business
structure
• Professional
attitude

Plan on Honing the Gaps in the Existing
Skill Set
• Development of skill
gap analysis
• Voluntary
educational
assistance and online
learning
• Enrolment in
employee
development
programs

• Analysing the
working structure
and abilities
• Cross training
• Coaching
• Mentoring
Communicating the Gap in an Effective
Manner that Would Still Qualify for the
Career Choice

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