Article updated on January 7, 2025 by Byothe
Taking care of your CV is one of the most important things to do to maximize your chances of landing a job. Indeed, even if it is not the only determining factor in recruitment, this document plays a major role, and can radically change, for better or for worse, the view of the person to whom it is submitted. Among the most important components of the Curriculum Vitae is the skills assessment, unfortunately too often absent. Let's see without further delay what a skills assessment is, and what is the interest of integrating it in order to improve your CV.
What is a skills assessment?
The skills assessment is a study or analysis carried out by a professional, which allows you to take stock of the applicant's career, to identify their skills and competencies acquired during their experience, but also to define their motivations.
Thanks to this, the client will be better able to know what he wants, but also to become aware of his skills and the areas where he can prove to be excellent thanks to it.
The duration of a skills assessment is estimated on average at around 24 hours, these hours being spread over 2 to 4 months, and its cost, according to the experts consulted, generally varies between 1500 and 2000 euros excluding tax.
For carry out a skills assessment, you can contact private firms, but also certain institutional organizations, including AFPA, APEC or ANCE. It should be noted that chambers of commerce can also carry out this type of assessment.
The skills assessment in the CV
The skills assessment plays an important role in your CV. Indeed, by informing the recruiter that you have completed a skills assessment, the latter will have access to your exact level of competence in a given area, and will know that you have thought long and hard about the type of career that is best suited to you.
The skills assessment therefore adds a touch of seriousness to your CV and demonstrates that you have a structured objective, in line with your area of expertise and your level.
Skills assessment even more important in technical sectors
If the skills assessment is very important and can greatly influence the value of your CV, it is even more so in the case of technical sectors. In the IT sector, for example, the skills assessment is essential, because it is a vast field, with many branches that are themselves subdivided into other sub-branches. Consequently, it is not always easy to precisely identify the skills of an IT specialist, to know in which position he could prove most useful.
By carrying out a skills assessment, the matter will be better thought out, the details scrutinized in order to determine, among all these specialties, the preferred field of the IT specialist. The recruiter will thus be reassured to know exactly what type of profile he has before his eyes, and will be able to act accordingly.
