{"id":15,"date":"2008-04-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supportingelement.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/13\/generic-vs-product-specific-skillsknowledge\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T09:00:00","slug":"generic-vs-product-specific-skillsknowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/13\/generic-vs-product-specific-skillsknowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Generic vs. Product Specific Skills\/Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the pleasure of attending a HRMS conference attended by SAP, Oracle &amp; PeopleSoft specialists.  I was surprised to find there are many common\/non-vendor specific issues.  A definitive set of Competencies to work with is a good example.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCompetencies may be utilized throughout the employee life-cycle, including: Talent Acquisition\/Recruitment, Performance Management, Remuneration, Training &amp; Development.  In many organizations the responsibility for each phase of the Life-Cycle lies with different parts.  At best there may be a slightly different interpretation of a common set of competencies.  At worst, separate parts of the organization may use totally different competencies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhilst much of the skills\/knowledge required to successfully implement a software solution are specific to the application, there are many common skills that can be applied to any system.  These are the skills that enable a consultant to easily move to new versions of the system in which they specialize and\/or to transition to a different product.  These are the skills that are key to the long term relevance of a consultant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the pleasure of attending a HRMS conference attended by SAP, Oracle &amp; PeopleSoft specialists. I was surprised to find there are many common\/non-vendor specific issues. A definitive set of Competencies to work with is a good example. Competencies may be utilized throughout the employee life-cycle, including: Talent Acquisition\/Recruitment, Performance Management, Remuneration, Training\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/13\/generic-vs-product-specific-skillsknowledge\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supportingelement.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}