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How ITG competency models are developed

ITG has been building and updating our highly structured and industry standard setting competency models since 1990. The development methodology includes independent research and ongoing day-to-day work with clients including:

Independent Research
    • Monitor corporate and public career and recruiting websites
    • Resources from professional associations
    • Data from research organizations
    • Statistics from the US Department of Labor
    • Industry-specific publications

Independent Research
    • Input from subject matter experts and practitioners
    • Client surveys and advisory councils
    • Input from partners
    • Industry working groups
    • Input from client customization sessions

Integrating Schoonover and Salary.com Competency Models
    • Integrating previously developed Schoonover competency models
    • Optional Schoonover Leadership Models interchangeable with ITG BIMS.
    • Matching to Predefined Interview Probes
    • Matching to selected SkillSoft’s Learning Content
    • Matching to Salary.com’s and ICR’s Compensation Job Profiles

To learn more about how ITG competency models are developed, request an ITG Competencies consultation today.
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Customer Testimonials
"We were looking to do a wholesale update of all our technology job descriptions and competencies. The ITG Competency Model gave us an incredible starting point in terms of identifying job families, roles within each job family and the critical competencies for each job."

- Large Canadian bank
"Salary.com’s knowledgeable consultant transformed a complex subject into something actionable and very easy to understand, enabling us to focus our energy on executing rather than planning."

- Full service outsourcing provider
"We purchased the Insurance Enterprise Competency Model from Salary.com’s ITG Competency Group because of the completeness and quality of the product. Since then we experienced ITG’s phenomenal service. Very impressive."

- Large mutual insurance company
"We found ITG was the only vendor who provided functional competency information for all of our required job families in manufacturing and corporate functions. ITG’s Competency Management Implementation Guide and consulting support provided a solid roadmap for launching our initiative."

- US based global manufacturing company
"I liked the tremendous depth of experience that is evident in working with the ITG staff. The Job-Competency Model provided us with a great foundation as we started down the talent management road."

- Large US bank
"ITG has the most comprehensive set of technical competencies in the marketplace. Using the ITG competency data as a starting point reduced the time and effort to build our company specific model and enabled us to implement competency based management much sooner than expected."

- Global professional services firm
"ITG’s depth of competency management knowledge and client focus was expertly blended to achieve our business goals."

- Worldwide information technology services and solutions company