Our Purpose
Connecting people and skills for meaningful work
Skill and competency frameworks are emerging as a key way to organize work and to prepare the workforce for the future. Many models already exist and many more are being developed.
These frameworks
align people with careers and help them uncover and realize their own potential
add value to micro-credentials and badges through alignment
Linking people, skills, and job roles with badges helps navigate the world of work.
Badges provide signals to employers about the skills a person has and the roles they may be suited for.
You can even go beyond competencies to add meaning to your recognition of skills and achievement, including Big Picture themes such as social goals - GoFrameworks already supports alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Other themes are coming.
The GoFrameworks vision
To support the full cycle from Goals to Learning to Assessment to Recognition.
Gather
the most important skill and competency models in one place
Search
for jobs to see what is needed for success while helping employers find people
Align
badges with competency models, goals, skill profiles and ways of learning
Compare and remix
competency models and their parts to support new industries and emerging jobs
Skill & Competency Models
Skill and competency models organize the skills, knowledge, behaviours, values, and other attributes needed to successfully perform a job or role. (Roles can be roles in jobs, on teams, or ad-hoc roles that people play at work or in the community.)
These models are also referred to as skill taxonomies, competency frameworks, capability matrixes, workforce frameworks and many other terms. The common thread is that they help people, organizations, and systems understand and work together in ways that are aligned to common goals.
Click on the links below to explore the competency models on the GoFrameworks platform. You will also be able to explore other competency models that are available as part of this project and sign up for a free account on Ibbaka that will let you create your own skill profile.
New competency models and other frameworks will be added regularly.
Clicking on the Go to Framework Button takes you to the Ibbaka Talent Platform for GoFrameworks.io.
On this platform you can explore the competency model and all of its components (these can differ for each model).
With a subscription to Ibbaka Talent you can design and manage your own competency models.
On the CanCred platform, Pro level users can access the GoFrameworks platform within the badge creation workflow, making it easy to map badges and micro-credentials to important frameworks for competencies, goals and other useful themes for alignment.
Available Frameworks
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Ontario Essential Employability Skills
Graduates of Ontario college programs awarding certificates and diplomas must be able to reliably demonstrate these important fundamental, personal, and social skills.
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Shopify Remote Working Skills
A world leader in e-commerce has become “digital by default” in our post-COVID world. Shopify is evolving this model to develop its fast growing remote workforce.
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Advanced Manufacturing Model
A collaboration of the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and leading industry organizations in the US. This version was updated in January 2020.
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UN Sustainable Development Goals
17 interlinked global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all" by 2030. Developed for the Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the UN.
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Design Thinking Open Competency Model
Design thinking is a critical capability for people and organizations adapting to change. This competency model defines the roles, behaviors, and skills needed to be successful.
Our approach
This site is a proof of concept. We provide a small sampling of competency models and frameworks relevant to Canadians and align these frameworks with micro-credentials and digital badges on the CanCred platform.
Over time we will add more Canadian and international competency models and frameworks, to align with more badges and other resources and activities for skills and learning.
As we move beyond the proof of concept to full scale implementation we will provide:
Granular search to help you find not just a competency model but the most relevant parts of that model.
Mapping between the parts of different competency models
More and more open competency models, including ways for you to contribute open models
Ways to adapt and remix your own competency models
Additional integrations with other systems and other types of frameworks
Links from competency models to learning resources
Support for IMS, IEEE and other international standards
Contact us if you would like to add your competency model or suggest other competency models or frameworks to be added.
This project supports the IEEE P1484.20 work on competency model definitions.
Sponsors
Ibbaka Talent
Discover your potential - put it to work
Ibbaka Talent offer a skill and competency management platform and supporting services. We help people to
understand the skills needed for different roles
guide assessments
direct learning
build skill based teams
We also offer a growing collection of Open Competency Models to help jump start the adoption of competency models.
Learn more about
CanCred by Learning Agents
Canada's skills recognition solution
CanCred by Learning Agents is a leading Canadian cloud service for micro-credentials and digital badges. CanCred runs on Open Badge Factory technology, certified to the IMS Global Open Badges standard.
CanCred works with educators and trainers, industry and professional associations and employers across Canada to feed talent pipelines, build human capital and develop workforces using micro-credentials and digital badges.
Learn more about
CanCred Factory - for organizations to issue and manage digital credentials
CanCred Passport - for individuals to store and share their digital credentials
Learning Agents - the edtech company behind CanCred