What you receive
A needs assessment. For each profiled job, the level employers say a new hire needs to arrive with, skill by skill, shown with how many employers answered and how spread out they were.
A gap analysis. The same skills rated by the programs that feed the job: what a typical completer reaches, the instructor’s own level, and whether the program has what it needs to teach each skill. Together those say whether a gap is a professional development need, an equipment need, or a curriculum need. Each skill in a region gets a simple 0–4 code:
| Code | What it means |
|---|---|
| 0 | Programs meet the need |
| 1 | Immediate opportunity: one school already teaches it and could show the others |
| 2 | Professional development needed |
| 3 | Equipment needed |
| 4 | Both needed |
A cost estimate. A planning-grade estimate of what it would take to close each gap, themed (professional development, equipment, consumables), split into full need versus funded.
How the profiles are built
Each profile is drawn from published apprenticeship standards, industry credentials and program accreditation standards, every source cited, then validated by the employers themselves: once five employers have rated a job, the average becomes the published level. Until then every profile carries the label “draft, pending employer validation”.
Results
Published here when five employers have rated a job. Nothing yet; employer outreach is underway.
Questions we get asked
Who sees my answers?
A small team at WBTO. No school, trade association, agency or other company sees your individual responses. Anything published is combined across at least five companies; where fewer than five answered, we report nothing rather than round.
Where does the skill list come from?
Published apprenticeship standards, industry credentials and program accreditation standards for the job, every one cited. We do not write the list from general occupational descriptions, because those cannot name a machine.
Documents
How a skills profile is built — the full methodology, generated from the live data: the seven-step process, what a profile contains, the source library, the change register, and what we tried that did not work.
Talk to us
To commission an assessment for your region, or to see the full development standard, email chris@wbto.partners.