Use case: Personal development

Skill Assessment

If all items on the skill map are assessed, a large number of items must be assessed, which takes time and may become an end in itself. Therefore, we recommend that the skill assessment be limited to the range required for the organization to which the individual belongs and the work (career) of that organization, as well as the items experienced in past work (unnecessary items are grayed out as shown in the figure below). After narrowing down the items in this way, each skill item is assessed by level, as in ETSS. In addition to individual self-reporting, if you want to operate more strictly, you can also diagnose by level matching with your supervisor, interviewing highly skilled people, and using tests. Also, since skills become obsolete if not used, if you are away from work for a long period of time, your level may decrease.

Career plan

Since skills are merely a means, we use a career plan to outline the career you want to achieve and discuss how to get there. For example, as shown in the figure below, if you want to become a system architect who can also program and test software, you should gain experience as a software engineer (programmer) and test engineer (software), and then define what steps and methods (OJT, education, self-study, etc.) you will take to level up to your desired career in the future.

In addition, if you aim to become an SDV architect who understands both out-of-car and in-car, you can define your path (career plan) by lining up careers related to in-car, out-of-car, and cloud on a horizontal axis, just like above.

Please note that in this skill system, as shown in 5.3.20-22, test design skills are set according to the level of test engineers, so that test engineers at levels 1,2 and 3 can carry out tests, and those at level 3 and above can design tests. Recently, with the ideas of test-driven development and test-first, software engineers are increasingly taking on the task of test design. In that case, please define your career as expanding into software engineering after gaining experience as a test engineer at level XNUMX or above.

Furthermore, as explained in 5.2, this skill system defines the scope of each career more narrowly than ETSS. Please note that this is not intended to develop only specialists who emphasize specialization. By defining it narrowly, each career can be leveled up with fewer skill items, so you can combine the necessary careers to define the ideal you should aim for.