"ASK" MODEL: INTERNATIONAL STANDARD HUMAN RESOURCE COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT MODEL
ASK is a very commonly used model in human resource management to train and develop personal capacity. The ASK model stands for:
- Attitude: Belongs to the range of emotions and feelings, is how individuals receive and react to reality, and express attitudes and motivations towards work. For example: honesty, passion, dedication to duty,...
- Skill: Belongs to operational skills, is the ability to turn acquired knowledge into specific actions, actual behavior during an individual's work process. For example: problem solving skills, risk management skills,...
- Knowledge: Belongs to thinking ability, is the understanding that an individual has after going through the process of education - training, reading comprehension, analysis and application. For example: professional knowledge, foreign language proficiency,...
The importance of the ASK model in business
Applying the ASK model to evaluate employees brings many benefits to businesses. As follows:
1. Identify employee skill gaps
Evaluating employee skills is extremely important for business development. However, if not properly evaluated, gaps in human resources skills will cause great disadvantages for the company.
With the ASK model, you can provide capacity assessment data and analyze personnel skill gaps. This helps you make wiser, more confident decisions to navigate and allocate people and jobs appropriately.
2. Promote and improve within the organization
A noteworthy fact is that in today's era, organizations and businesses are developing at an increasingly rapid pace. However, even if an employee is trained to improve their skills, some of their skills may still become outdated and no longer relevant to current trends.
Therefore, awareness of new trends as well as skills to grasp the world around us are very important. The ASK model will help you determine what factors your employees are lacking in order to improve them. Thereby helping to promote capacity within the organization by creating a continuous cycle of evaluation and development.
3. Support recruitment and candidate screening
The ASK competency assessment model helps businesses recruit potential candidates by determining the knowledge, skills and qualities needed for each job position. This saves time and eliminates unsuitable candidates from the start.
The ASK model is also very useful when building a recruitment strategy, helping the HR department evaluate and identify potential candidates to approach. You can also use ASK to evaluate candidates during interviews. At this time, the human resources - recruitment department needs to define in detail the necessary level of each knowledge/skill/attitude, helping to standardize the enterprise's recruitment.
4. The ASK model helps build onboarding and internal training roadmaps
The ASK model includes typical competencies that the recruitment department expects from employees in the business. In order for any new employee to understand the job requirements, it would be very appropriate for HR to use that knowledge/skills/attitudes as lesson plan content to onboard new employees.
Expanding further, the internal training process in the enterprise also needs a specific purpose - to help each individual get closer to the ideal employee portrait drawn from the ASK model.