Skillnote Adds "Personal Medical Record" and "Career Map" Features to Support Autonomous Career Development for Manufacturing Workers

Skillnote Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Takashi Yamakawa), a company that solves human resource challenges in the manufacturing industry with skill data, has added a "Personal Medical Record" feature to its "Skillnote Skill Management System" to intuitively grasp information related to employee development and growth. This feature became available as a paid option from April 2nd. Additionally, a "Career Map" feature, which visualizes the organization's human resource composition by proficiency level for each job type and role, is scheduled to be newly released after June.

Development Background

The manufacturing industry is currently facing multiple human resource development challenges simultaneously. According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "Employment Trend Survey" (August 2024), the percentage of new graduates entering the manufacturing industry has halved over 20 years, from 17.3% to 8.6%. As the manufacturing industry becomes less attractive as a career choice, the risk of losing accumulated skills and know-how due to the mass retirement of the baby boomer generation is increasing year by year. Meanwhile, as products become more sophisticated and complex, the pace of training young and mid-career engineers is not keeping up with the replacement of retirees, a situation occurring in many workplaces. An oversight of "I thought I was training them" can lead to a decline in the overall technical capabilities of the organization. In addition, the awareness of engineers themselves is changing. It has become an era where companies explicitly define career paths, such as "what step am I at now, and what should I aim for next?", which directly impacts engineer retention and motivation. There is a risk that excellent talent will leave workplaces where there is no clear prospect of growth.

In response to these challenges, many workplaces still rely on person-dependent operations for training management, using "paper, Excel, and supervisors' memories." As DX accelerates across the manufacturing industry, the situation where only training management is left behind in digitalization has become an unavoidable management issue.

As a breakthrough, the Skillnote Skill Management System adds two new features: "Personal Medical Record" and "Career Map." The "Personal Medical Record" aims to create an environment where managers can provide concrete training support for employees' autonomous growth by making information such as accumulated skills and experience easily and intuitively understandable. The "Career Map" is a feature that clarifies the proficiency level of each employee in an organization or workplace by job type and role, and can be used for planned training and decisions on job assignments. Both features support career development based on skill data, such as employees' skills and experience, and strategic human resource utilization.

Features of the New Functions

1. Personal Medical Record

① Information related to employee development and growth is centralized in one place 
Information such as each employee's possessed skills, current position towards their desired career, goal sheets for managing goal setting and evaluation, and past work history can be accessed with a single click. As a result, managers and employees can easily grasp the current situation during individual interviews, goal setting, and evaluations. Furthermore, the skills and experience of transferred employees are reliably passed on as data, enabling a smooth start-up early on.

② Visually visualize strengths and weaknesses with a radar chart 
In the technical and skilled departments of the manufacturing industry, management skills often exceed 100, making it difficult to intuitively grasp which skills to develop. The radar chart allows for a quick visualization of the proficiency level of each skill, enabling managers and employees to agree on a training policy with a shared understanding, such as "let's develop this next," while looking at the same screen.

③ Flexible viewing permission settings are possible 
Viewing permissions for personal medical records can be flexibly set for managers, employees themselves, and training personnel. Settings can be adjusted to match the organization's operational policy while balancing security and convenience.

2. Career Map (Scheduled for release after June)

① Visualize proficiency levels by job type and role for each employee 
For each job type and role, such as electrical design or mechanical design, step-ups like "beginner → intermediate → advanced → expert" can be set, along with the skills, qualifications, and experience required for each step-up. The extent to which each employee meets these requirements can be viewed in a list across the entire organization, eliminating the need for cumbersome tasks such as cross-referencing multiple documents or individual confirmations.

② Achieve numerical-based training, not relying on intuition or experience 
The understanding of growth, which previously tended to rely on the experience and intuition of supervisors, can now be objectively managed as the acquisition rate (%) of necessary skills, qualifications, and training. By clarifying the basis for evaluation, consensus building in training interviews becomes smoother, increasing employee satisfaction and motivation for growth.

③ Supports workplaces where one employee handles multiple job types and roles 
Even in cases where one employee is involved in multiple job types and roles, this can be grasped collectively across different job types and roles. It can be used for training management in workplaces that promote job assignments and multi-skilling.

Future Developments

Skillnote will continue to support the sustainable growth of individuals and organizations through the utilization of skill data, and further promote product development towards realizing its vision of "a world where creators thrive." For the Personal Medical Record, the viewing function for managers has been released first, and functions will be expanded in the future to allow employees themselves to check their own personal medical records. Furthermore, functions that lead to employees' sense of growth and autonomous goal setting, such as visualizing the degree of growth over time and the gap with target values, are also expected to be improved. In addition, the development of a new function called "Human Resource Portfolio" is being considered, which visualizes "how many people with which skills will be lacking in the future" based on the current human resource composition, training plans, and changes over time.

Seminar on Developing Young Talent and Career Development in the Manufacturing Industry to be Held

From April 14th (Tuesday), an online seminar will be held on the theme of career development for young employees working in the manufacturing industry. We will introduce how to create a system for autonomous growth to prevent young employees from leaving and improve their motivation, including a demonstration of Skillnote.

<Event Overview>
■ Title: How to Create a Workplace Where Young Employees Can Envision Their Future ~Connecting Career Paths and Skills to Achieve Autonomous Growth~
■ Dates
　・April 14, 2026 (Tuesday) 13:00-13:20 LIVE broadcast
　・April 22, 2026 (Wednesday) 13:00-13:20
　・April 24, 2026 (Friday) 12:00-12:20
■ Method: Online (Free)
■ Speaker: Momoko Minamiguchi, Solution Sales Div., Skillnote Inc.
■ Details and Application: https://skillnote.jp/seminar/career-development_2604/

About "Skillnote Skill Management System"

The "Skillnote Skill Management System" is a cloud service that allows centralized management and operation of skill maps (competency management charts), which were traditionally managed using Excel and other tools in the manufacturing industry. By registering and visualizing on-site skill and training data in the cloud, it enables planned human resource development and placement utilizing skill data, contributing to solving human resource management issues in manufacturing companies such as skill transfer, multi-skilling, and rapid upskilling.

About Skillnote Inc.

Under the vision of "a world where creators thrive," we aim to realize a society where all people involved in manufacturing work vibrantly by scientifically studying human growth in manufacturing.

Company Name: Skillnote Inc.

Location: KANDA SQUARE 11F, 2-2-1 Kanda Nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Established: January 2016

Capital: 924.76 million yen (including capital reserve)

Representative Director: Takashi Yamakawa

Business Activities: Development and sales of various cloud services that leverage skill data to enhance the capabilities of people and organizations involved in manufacturing.

HP: https://skillnote.jp

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