Skills-Based Insights

At Techwolf we talk the talk AND walk the walk. Getting outside, spending time with colleagues and staying healthy, active and connected are all part of the culture. Stijn, one of our software engineers, has taken this to heart - creating the Wolfie walking bot in Slack. Wolfie helps champion the walking culture at TechWolf, pairing colleagues randomly to encourage them to get out of the office and go for a walk together.

With a skill-based approach, HR will typically be the driver of change, but that doesn’t mean that the skill-based organisation should be contained within the HR function. In this blog, we explore how a successful skills transformation is driven by human resources, but leveraged by the entire business.

On 27th September at Workday Rising, TechWolf was announced as one of the trusted AI vendors selected to be part of Workday’s new AI marketplace. This blog highlights how the partnership will work.

Our Lead Researcher, JJ, recently developed a Chrome plugin for LinkedIn and JIRA to make it even easier for our Skill Engine API to infer Skill Data from new sources. Read more about JJ’s journey and how he’s always looking at new ways to innovate at TechWolf, here.

Ophélie, initially a Sales Associate, transitioned into a new role in sales operations at TechWolf due to her analytical skills and passion. She now leverages her expertise in operations, processes, and data to support both sales and revenue operations, aligning with the company's commitment to tailored career development.

AI is fast becoming an integral part of our everyday lives, from smart home devices to navigation systems or online banking. It’s also becoming a vital component in HR and learning, doing the heavy lifting when it comes to compiling, analysing and aggregating the myriad of data sources within an organisation.

In our latest TechWolf blog we examine how AI can help create a strong skill framework that is tailored, comprehensive and dynamic to fit the needs of your business now, and in the future.

We welcomed over 100 HR leaders to our SKILLS/by TechWolf event at Searcys at The Gherkin. As well as enjoying a glorious, sun-filled view of London, our guests were treated to an inspiring and insightful panel discussion featuring speakers from Booking.com, KPMG and GSK sharing their experiences of becoming a skill-based organisation.

For those who were unable to join us, we’ve shared a summary of the key takeaways on our blog.

The pressure cooker of the past few years has completely transformed the workplace and the skills required of talent. There’s been a huge shift in the work people are being asked to do, where they do it (with the rise of hybrid work), and how they collaborate with each other.

We have some exciting news, our founders Andreas De Neve, Jeroen Van Hautte, and Mikaël Wornoo have been recognised in the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe 2023 list. It is Forbes’ annual acknowledgement of some of the world’s most successful, young entrepreneurs and the eighth annual list in Europe.

Skills are on everyone’s minds, but it can be tricky to separate business benefits from buzzwords. In this blog, we take a look at the ‘skill-based organisation’ and what this means for business leaders.

Globally, companies are in distress. On the one hand, media keeps reporting on a doomsday recession, announcing an economic slow-down that could bring the economy to a complete stop. On the other, companies fight over talent and need to increase their workforce investments. There are too many talent challenges to count, each vicious enough to extinguish a company's existence.

The second edition of TechWolf's flagship event couldn't have come at a better time. More than ever it is clear that People Leaders are elevating the HR function to boldly go where no 'personnel department' has gone before. There were drinks, there were talks, there were 25 CHROs and HR Leaders sharing insights and challenges. Watch the video to feel the vibe, read the Event Report for the details.

The World Economic Forum, the annual gathering of influential CEOs, politicians and journalists that convened in Davos last week, announced its selection of the 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2022: companies tackling issues from sustainability and climate change to healthcare and more.

GHENT, BELGIUM, May 10, 2022 -- TechWolf, the AI technology startup building the world's foremost platform for large companies to leverage their workforce's skills, has raised €10 million in Series A funding from prominent international investors. The round was led by Stride.VC, with participation from Fortino Capital, Acadian Ventures, PMV and existing investors. TechWolf will use the funds to execute on its ambitious go-to-market strategy, ramp up international expansion and continue investing heavily in R&D.

We’ve secured a €10M Series A investment round led by Stride.VC. with participation from Fortino Capital, Acadian Ventures, and prior investors, including PMV.

This funding round confirms the strength of our company mission in today's climate of talent shortages.

Skill taxonomies. The bane of many an enterprise HR leader’s existence… Discover how to break the chain of surveys, workshops and excel files to build a taxonomy that is quickly outdated.

TechWolf won the Best Excellence Recognition award, which recognizes outstanding achievements and promising future in delivering excellence to employer organizations.

In January, TechWolf introduced a new initiative allowing employees to move away from sedentarism. An innovative program in partnership with Dierenasiel Gent is seeking to "rescue" TechWolf employees from their daily routine by encouraging them to step outdoors, go for a walk and make a canine friend.

Skill Inference is getting traction. "Wait, can AI actually predict someone's skills?" Yes, it can. People underestimate how far language technology has come. By looking at work history, learning data and performance data, AI can now identify employee skills.

Watch Talent and Learning expert Christopher Lind interview TechWolf's Mikaël Wornoo on the topic of performance management. Discover how technology can help solve the classic stalemate situation when a manager and an employee have a different opinion on skill level.

Kris Legroe, Director of Employee Services at Telenet shares actionable insights on how companies make the switch to the skills-based organisation.

What happens when 25 HR directors gather at an idyllic vineyard to discuss the skills-based organisation and the future of work? Watch the video and find out.

TechWolf's co-founder and COO Mikaël was HR specialist David Green's guest for a well-received episode of MyHRFuture's podcast. Enjoy the highlight in the 2 short videos.

On October 6th, TechWolf took home the HR Tech StartUp Award at the annual HR Tech gala dinner.

On the 9th of June 2021, TechWolf organised a second Round Table with three CHROs. In this last part of our three-piece blog series, we'll share 3 tips when building a skills-based workforce.

On the 9th of June 2021, TechWolf organised a second Round Table with three CHROs. In this second part of our three-piece blog series, we'll dive deeper into the role of technology in the skills-based workforce.

On the 9th of June 2021, TechWolf organised a second Round Table with three CHROs. Read about their thoughts on the skills-based workforce in this three-piece blog series.

On the 17th of March 2021, TechWolf organised a first Round Table with five CHROs. Read about the obstacles of Strategic Workforce Planning in their organisations (and they overcome them) in this third and last part of our blog series.

On the 17th of March 2021, TechWolf organised a first Round Table with five CHROs. Read about the impact of Strategic Workforce Planning in their organisations in this second part of our blog series.

On the 17th of March 2021, TechWolf organised a first Round Table with five CHROs. Read about their thoughts on Strategic Workforce Planning in this three-piece blog series.

Using skills in Strategic Workforce Planning means moulding talent to fit the needs of the organisation rather than the other way around. Skills help create a common language to bridge the gap between jobs and people. Discover the advantages of the skills-based approach in this article.

Telenet knows sustainable talent management pays off. By using data intelligently, bridging their skill gap with effective implementation of Strategic Workforce Planning is within reach.

What is Strategic Workforce Planning? Picking the best parts of the definitions circling the web, we provided our own vision on this trending topic in Strategic HR, focusing on skills and the continuous process.

Just like a marathon runner will check their vitals on a daily basis, organisations need to be mindful of their skills health. Discover the definition and dimensions of skills health and how you can use it in your L&D strategy.

Manually detecting skill gaps for a large organisation is an error-prone process not suited for today's changing nature of work. This article discusses how artificial intelligence can spark a new plan of attack to keep up with those changes and solve the skill gap problem in an innovative way.

In this podcast hosted by Flexso for People, our CEO Andreas De Neve & HR transformation consultant Tom Mentens elaborate on a joint project between Flexso and TechWolf: The Resume Matching App - built on top of SAP SuccessFactors.

During the summer of 2020, Vic Degraeve interned at TechWolf as an NLP Engineer. He was assigned his very own project and got to be part of the team.

Paavo started his internship during the first COVID-19 wave in 2020. He completed his project on Automatic Text Classification fully remote.