The Competence Fair can be conducted recurrently in companies to gain transparency about hidden competencies, passions and interests of the workforce. Particularly against the backdrop of strategic innovation initiatives, the effectiveness is very high.
The core idea is that many employees in organizations have competencies, knowledge and passions that they do not use in day-to-day business because there is only a limited possibility of transfer with professional tasks.
At the fair, however, such competencies, which are acquired through hobbies, for example, are presented precisely in order to enable later transfers from them for everyday work.
For example, a pronounced passion for collecting stamps in everyday professional life may have relevance in archiving, or an employee’s sense and understanding of coding and gaming in private life may be directly applied in the company, for example, when it comes to questions of digitization.
