SPARC Skills Management
Transform tribal knowledge about your workforce into a structured, searchable skills database, built on a standardized 5-level assessment framework and informed by structured interview analysis.
What's inside
Everything you need to know your crew.
Everything you need
to know your crew.
Not just who's available. Who's actually qualified, when they were last
assessed, and where the gaps are.
From AI crew recommendations to PDF exports, SPARC gives you everything you need to plan labor based on real skills,
not assumptions.
Standardized 5-Level Scale
From "No Exposure" to "Expert / Can Teach Others", every supervisor uses the same framework, making worker profiles comparable and trustworthy across the company.
Standardized 5-Level Scale
From "No Exposure" to "Expert / Can
Teach Others", every supervisor uses
the same framework, making worker
profiles comparable and trustworthy
across the company.
Standardized 5-Level Scale
From "No Exposure" to "Expert / Can
Teach Others", every supervisor uses the
same framework, making worker
profiles comparable and trustworthy
across the company.
Transcript Skill Extraction
Upload a worker interview transcript and the platform extracts skills with confidence scores for your team to review. Apply updates side-by-side in one click, no manual transcription.
Transcript Skill Extraction
Upload a worker interview transcript and the platform extracts skills with confidence scores for your team to review.
Apply updates side-by-side in one
click, no manual transcription.
Transcript Skill Extraction
Upload a worker interview transcript and the platform extracts skills with confidence scores for your team to review. Apply updates side-by-side in one click, no manual transcription.
Trade & Company-Configured Skills
Skill categories and competencies are configured to match your trade, your terminology, and your existing workflows, not forced into a generic off-the-shelf framework.
Trade & Company-Configured Skills
Skill categories and competencies are configured to match your trade, your terminology, and your existing
workflows, not forced into a generic
off-the-shelf framework.
Trade & Company-Configured Skills
Skill categories and competencies are configured to match your trade, your terminology, and your existing workflows,
not forced into a generic
off-the-shelf framework.
Assessment Staleness Alerts
Surface workers whose assessments are outdated, new hires needing a first review, or employees never assessed — before a skill gap turns into a planning problem.
Assessment Staleness Alerts
Surface workers whose assessments are outdated, new hires needing a first review, or employees never assessed — before a skill gap turns into a planning problem.
Assessment Staleness Alerts
Surface workers whose assessments are outdated, new hires needing a first review,
or employees never assessed — before a
skill gap turns into a planning problem.
Claimed vs. Verified Skills
Track the difference between what workers say they can do and what supervisors have confirmed — adding a critical layer of data quality for project placements.
Claimed vs. Verified Skills
Track the difference between what workers say they can do and what supervisors have confirmed — adding a critical layer of data quality for project placements.
Smart Worker Filtering
Supervisors see workers from their current
job plus anyone worked with in the past 90 days always assessing the right people at
the right time.
Smart Worker Filtering
Supervisors see workers from their current
job plus anyone worked with in the past 90 days always assessing the right people at
the right time.
Smart Worker Filtering
Supervisors see workers from their current
job plus anyone worked with in the past
90 days always assessing the right people
at the right time.
How It Works
The Assessment Process
The Assessment Process
01.
Smart Worker Queue
Open the dashboard and see a smart-filtered list of workers on your current job and anyone you've worked with recently — prioritized by assessment staleness and hire date.
02.
Assess Manually or Upload a Transcript
Rate skills directly using the standardized scale, or upload an interview recording transcript and have the platform surface skills with evidence
and confidence scores for your review.
03.
Review & Verify
Compare AI-proposed updates to current assessments side-by-side.
Mark skills as "claimed" or "supervisor verified." Reject low-confidence suggestions with one click.
04.
Profile Feeds into Planning
Updated skills flow immediately into SPARC Labor Planning — so the next crew recommendation already reflects the latest assessment data without any manual syncing.
05.
Track Workforce Gaps & Training Needs
Across all your workers, the Skills Dashboard shows skill distribution, category gaps, and workers without certifications — so you know exactly where to invest in training.
01.
Smart Worker Queue
Open the dashboard and see a smart-filtered list of workers on your current job and anyone you've worked with recently — prioritized by assessment staleness and hire date.
02.
Assess Manually or Upload a Transcript
Rate skills directly using the standardized scale, or upload an interview recording transcript and have the platform surface skills with evidence
and confidence scores for your review.
Rate skills directly using the standardized scale, or upload an interview recording transcript and have the platform surface skills with evidence and confidence scores for your review.
03.
Review & Verify
Compare AI-proposed updates to current assessments side-by-side.
Mark skills as "claimed" or "supervisor verified." Reject low-confidence suggestions with one click.
Compare AI-proposed updates to current assessments side-by-side.Mark skills as "claimed" or "supervisor verified." Reject low-confidence suggestions with one click.
04.
Profile Feeds into Planning
Updated skills flow immediately into SPARC Labor Planning — so the next crew recommendation already reflects the latest assessment data without any manual syncing.
05.
Track Workforce Gaps & Training Needs
Across all your workers, the Skills Dashboard shows skill distribution, category gaps, and workers without certifications — so you know exactly where to invest in training.
Why SPARC
The difference is in how the data gets used
The difference is in how
the data gets used
A paper evaluation lives in a drawer. SPARC connects directly to how
you plan, assign, and grow your crew.
A paper evaluation lives in a drawer.
SPARC connects directly to how you plan, assign, and grow your crew.
Trade-configured
Transcript extraction
Planning sync
Staleness alerts
Training & Development
01
Configured to your trade, not generic
Skill categories, competency levels, and terminology are set up to matchhow your company already talks about the work, not retrofitted from ageneric HR platform built for someone else.
Trade-configured
Transcript extraction
Planning sync
Staleness alerts
Training & Development
01
Configured to your trade, not generic
Skill categories, competency levels, and terminology are set up to matchhow your company already talks about the work, not retrofitted from ageneric HR platform built for someone else.
01
Trade-configured
Configured to your trade, not generic
Skill categories, competency levels, and terminology are set up to match how your company already talks about the work, not retrofitted from a generic HR platform built for someone else.
Skill Management
Fixtures
(1 of 1 skills)
Raceways
(4 of 4 skills)
Wiring
(2 of 2 skills)
#1–#1000 Wire
Level 3
Requires full supervision, frequent correction
Can install with guidance but inconsistent.
Installs independently to standard quality.
Tracking skill development
On-site review session
02
Transcript extraction
AI saves assessment time by 70%
Upload a 30-minute interview transcript and get extracted skill recommendations in
seconds — so supervisors spend their time verifying accuracy in the field, not transcribing notes at a desk.
03
Planning sync
Connected to planning, not siloed in HR
Skills data feeds directly into crew recommendations the moment it's
updated — it's not a siloed HR record that
gets ignored once it leaves the field and
never reaches the foreman.
Planning Sync
Live
Skills Profile
Conduit bending
Panel termination
Fire alarm systems
Labor Planning
#4521
Updated
#4522
Updated
#4523
Updated
04
Staleness alerts
Staleness alerts prevent blind spots
The system tells you who hasn't been assessed lately so you never discover a critical skill gap at the worst possible moment when a job is already active and crew is committed.
Assessment Staleness
Foreman View
Overdue
3
New hires
2
Current
18
Workers Needing Attention
112 days
Never assessed
10d ago
05
Training & Development
Training turns skill gaps into career.
SPARC doesn't just identify what's missing, it gives you a structured path to fix it. Assign training plans, track progress over time, and know exactly when a worker is ready to take
on more responsibility on site.
Training & Development
Active training plans
5
Completed this quarter
7
Avg. Skill Level
3.4
Worker
Training plan
Progress
Conduit L4 → L5
80%
Print Reading L2 → L3
35%
Wiring L1 → L2
60%
Wiring L1 → L2
90%
Ready to build smarter?
See how Common Forge can reduce planning
time, improve crew placement, and drive more
profit on every job.
Ready to build smarter?
See how Common Forge can reduce planning time, improve
crew placement, and drive more profit on every job.
Ready to build smarter?
See how Common Forge can reduce planning time, improve crew placement, and drive more profit on every job.
