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Matching

From a skill need to a programme you can book.

Every suggestion carries a rationale an HR director can defend in front of the board and the works council.

Nine disclosed criteria, reweightable per initiative

Company Workspace, suggestion

Industrial automation technology

Target role: Automation technician

91

Match score

4

skills covered

1

left open

weighted across nine criteria

Control systemsRoboticsIndustrial communicationFault diagnosisOccupational safety

Illustrative sample scenario. No real customers, no real providers.

Product view

A suggestion as the Company Workspace shows it

The view does not just say that a programme fits. It says why it fits and what it leaves out.

Industrial automation technology

Target role: Automation technician

91

Match score

weighted across nine criteria

Provider type
Technical academy
Format
Hybrid, alongside work
Duration
6 months
Start
October
Location
Stuttgart and remote

Skills covered 4

  • Control systems Automation
  • Robotics Automation
  • Industrial communication Automation
  • Fault diagnosis Engineering

Left open 1

  • Occupational safety Organisation

For skills left open, QualiShift proposes an additional module inside the learning path.

The rationale, in plain words

This programme is proposed because it covers 4 of 5 target skills for the role Automation technician, runs alongside shift work and starts in October. What remains open is Occupational safety.

Further suggestions from the same run

Every target role gets its own list, sortable by score, date, location or cost.

  • Digital quality inspection and machine vision

    87

    Digital quality technician, On site with practical part, 4 months

  • High-voltage qualification, levels 2 and 3

    84

    High-voltage specialist, On site, 3 weeks

  • Condition-based maintenance and sensors

    82

    Smart maintenance technician, Hybrid, 5 months

  • Production data and shop floor metrics

    79

    Production data specialist, Remote, alongside work, 3 months

  • MES and digital control stations

    76

    Digital production technician, On site with line access, 8 weeks

Illustrative example from a sample scenario (a supplier converting one plant). No real customers, no real providers.

Explainability

How the score is built

The weighting is disclosed and visible inside the workspace. A score nobody can recalculate is a score nobody can stand behind.

  • Coverage of the skill gap

    30

    how many of the missing skills the programme actually teaches

  • Fit with the target role

    20

    whether the content serves the role profile, not just the keyword

  • Skill profile

    10

    prior knowledge of the people in the role cluster

  • Format

    10

    on site, hybrid, remote, with or without access to a real line

  • Timing

    10

    start dates against the schedule of the transformation

  • Duration

    5

    how long people are tied up

  • Location

    5

    travel from the plant and whether overnight stays are needed

  • Working and shift model

    5

    whether shift plans allow attendance at all

  • Cost

    5

    price per participant and how it scales with group size

What that means in practice

Skill coverage outweighs every convenience criterion.

The softer criteria only decide once two programmes are level on substance.

Each criterion is reweightable per initiative, for instance on three shifts with no week to spare.

A score nobody can explain does not survive the first question from the works council.

Automated conveyor line with totes inside a plant

In detail

What is calculated and what a model contributes

Everything decidable is calculated and filtered. A language model is used only where texts have to be compared and labels reconciled.

Deterministic, recalculable

same data, same result
  • filters on target role, unit and role cluster
  • availability, duration and how many weeks people are tied up
  • location, distance and whether overnight stays are needed
  • cost and whether the format works with the shift model

Model-assisted, always reviewable

every mapping stays visible
  • normalising labels so that control systems and PLC engineering count as one skill
  • mapping between an in-house role profile and a classification standard
  • reading provider programme descriptions for the content they actually teach
  • writing the rationale as one sentence that reads without prior knowledge

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Limits

What matching does not do

It does not decide. QualiShift proposes, ranks and explains. The company picks the programme, not the algorithm.

It does not rate people. The score uses the skill profile of a role cluster, never a performance assessment of an individual.

It stays correctable. Every weight and every skill mapping can be changed in the workspace, visibly in the result.

It gives no funding advice. QualiShift does not assess eligibility or entitlements and files no applications.

Next step

One programme is not yet a measure

The suggestion becomes a learning path, comparable needs become a cohort, and that becomes a request with a date against it.