What HR data standards exist?

[pmackay]

It would be handy to add a bit more info to this on the kind of scope it covers.

[heathd]

The government is trying to get a better view of its skills and capability across its workforce to help workforce planning. The need for this data has been highlighted in numerous reports such as this one from the National Audit Office.

What role can open standards play in facilitating interchange of data which would help workforce planning? Examples of such data:

• job ads/vacancies
• business objectives and KPIs
• staff objectives
• staff profiles, including skills/competencies
• projection of skills required by department
• organograms/staff heirarchies
• performance management
• frameworks for skills and competencies, including specialist/professional ones

How could open standards help us to avoid lock-in?

An example of an open standards body working in this space http://www.hropenstandards.org/ however I have not researched them at all.

[jystewart]

Worth mentioning that the Open Standards Board is currently considering the schema.org job posting format - https://standards.data.gov.uk/challenge/publishing-vacancies-online

[kerin]

Seen on x-gov Slack:

https://medium.com/@charlesrt/setting-an-open-standard-for-job-postings-9e548f8fc9bd#.elfr5wifz

https://gist.github.com/charlesrt/75ab9768298cbd2466b7

[heathd]

The job standards are also in this repo as issue #8