Integrated Learning Incentive System (ILIS)
A Data-Driven Framework for Aligning Skills with Organisational Needs
A Proposal for the United Nations
The Challenge: A Disconnect
How can we ensure our investments in people directly address real-time organisational needs and provide clear, incentivised career pathways?
• How do we ensure our training investments directly address real-time organisational needs?
• How can we make the recruitment process more efficient, equitable, and responsive?
• How do we provide clear, incentivised career pathways for our personnel?
ILIS is designed to solve these challenges by creating a unified, intelligent ecosystem.
Unifying Recruitment & Learning
Our core philosophy is to break down the silos between how we hire and how we train. By creating a direct, data-driven link between the two, we build a system that is constantly adapting to the real-world needs of the organization.
The Solution: The ILIS Core Cycle
Demand Signal
Current vacancies define the precise skills the organisation needs.
Targeted Learning
Courses are designed and funded specifically to meet this demand, with content based on actual work tasks.
Skill Acquisition
Candidates take courses to gain qualifications for these roles.
Informed Recruitment
The recruitment process explicitly takes course completion into account, creating a pipeline of qualified talent.
System Architecture: Three Pillars
Data
The system integrates and analyses data from Vacancies, Learning materials, and Users.
Intelligent Recommender Systems
Three distinct systems match the right learning to the right people and the right people to the right jobs.
Automation
Radical automation of the application process to maximise opportunity and efficiency.
The Power of Modularity
By breaking down large job roles and long courses into their smallest functional components (skills, tasks, modules), we leverage the law of large numbers. This creates more data points for our recommender systems, leading to more accurate matches, and engineers greater equity by providing more granular opportunities for candidates to qualify for.
The Intelligent Triangle
This illustrates the three-way feedback loop at the heart of ILIS, ensuring perfect alignment between organisational needs, learning opportunities, and our talent pool.
Pillar 1: Recommender Systems (RS)
RS1: Courses for Vacancies
Ensures that for every competency listed in a vacancy, corresponding course material is available. This closes the skills gap proactively.
RS2: Courses for Candidates
Shows candidates how many more roles, and at what pay point, completing specific courses would make them eligible for.
RS3: Candidates for Vacancies
Automatically pairs candidates with suitable vacancies and vice-versa, creating a perpetually active talent pool.
Pillar 2: Radical Automation
This is the engine for maximising equity and efficiency.
- Continuous Application: Every candidate is automatically applied to every vacancy for which they are a potential match, all the time.
- Reduced Burden: Candidates are only engaged at advanced stages, eliminating application fatigue and ensuring no opportunity is missed.
Pillar 3: A New Standard for Responsibilities
For the system to work, data quality is paramount.
- Task-Based Vacancies: Job responsibilities must reflect real, day-to-day tasks, not aspirations.
- User Responsibility: All users must keep their experience and skills profiles frequently updated.
The Financial Model: Performance-Based Funding
Learning budgets are allocated dynamically and intelligently, directly linked to performance metrics like meeting vacancy demands and course completion rates.
A New Model for Work: Agile Contracting
The efficiency of ILIS enables a more flexible and modern approach, supporting a move towards as many "miniature" contracts as possible and phasing out open-ended contracts.
Summary & Benefits
For the UN:
A highly efficient, data-driven recruitment and training system that ensures the workforce is perfectly aligned with organisational goals.
For Personnel:
Clear, incentivised pathways for career development and equitable access to all available opportunities.
Overall:
ILIS transforms HR and Learning & Development from support functions into a strategic, integrated engine for organisational success.