Skills are indeed becoming the foundation for developing, moving, hiring, and evaluating talent, and potentially re-designing work. By focusing on skills in all key people processes, companies can address skills gaps through attracting and retaining skilled workers, upskilling and reskilling their existing workforces; predicting and building new, future-focused skills; and tapping into contingent workers for specialized projects or tasks.

Becoming a skills-driven organisation however entails complexities that require different stakeholders to partner together. In this webcast, we will hear from Kristy Kucharczak, Head of Strategic Talent Management, and Christiane Dietz, Senior Lead Strategic Workforce Planning, Skills and Well-being & Solutions at Merck KGaA, about how they shifted their focus from experience to skills, as well as practical steps other companies should consider in their pivot to a skills-based strategy.