BORA is a German-Austrian premium supplier of kitchen innovations and established the original hob extraction system for fresh air in the kitchen living space in 2007. The company is growing rapidly, continuously expanding its product portfolio and workforce, and focuses on the highest quality, minimalistic design and best performance in every discipline. This attitude also shapes the Learning & Development Team (L&D), which wants to make internal development just as high-quality and user-centered as the BORA product range.
The rapid growth poses a central question for BORA: What skills does the company have, who has them, how can they be developed and where are there gaps? There was no central overview of employee skills or a consistent skill taxonomy, which made internal staffing difficult. It was difficult to prioritize new learning content, as skill gaps were suspected but not proven. At the same time, BORA did not want to overburden HR decision makers with Excel lists or manual maintenance processes. The search was for a scalable, administratively lean solution that combines skill transparency with the existing job framework and provides a reliable skill profile for every role.
With edyoucated's AI-based skill services, BORA launched the project within a short time after the presentation. Together with the edyoucated experts, HR employees fed in hundreds of job profiles, training catalogs and other documents in order to be able to automatically extract skill signals. Duplicate entries were eliminated; the specialized software's internal algorithms then bundled tens of thousands of features into a two-level taxonomy of skill clusters and specific skills. After a structured review, the L&D team filled the library with 1,600 Bora-specific skills — completely along the existing job architecture. In the next step, several hundred roles were matched against the newly created taxonomy, resulting in 360 skill profiles, individual for the activities carried out at BORA, including weighting and skill levels. After approval from HR management, this data was loaded directly into the edyoucated platform, which BORA recruiters will work with in the future.
The result: automatic skill mappings instead of confusing Excel spreadsheets, clear governance instead of tedious ad hoc research, and a single internal reference source for the various personnel processes — from continuing education to staffing.
BORA quickly gained a complete overview of existing internal capabilities, skill gaps and skill owners. The HR department can now fill roles based on data-based decision-making processes, identify internal experts and develop targeted learning content, because each role is transparently linked to the relevant skills. During preparation, the AI-supported approach saved the L&D team well over a thousand hours of manual taxonomy work and avoided duplicate administrative maintenance in tables.
Hours of manual work saved: >1,000 thanks to automated skill extraction
Skills in the library: 1,600 tailor-made entries in two levels
Skill profiles created: 360 role profiles including taxonomy mapping
In addition, skill dashboards are now permanently available to BORA recruiters and project managers on the platform. This makes it easy to see which talents a project requires, where there is a need for learning and which employees can be used as mentors or content experts.
“What we particularly like about edyoucated is the combination of AI-supported structure, simple application, ease of use and genuine partnership on equal terms.” - L&D project team BORA
This project shows how quickly a growing industrial company can create skill transparency in collaboration with edyoucated when AI-based methods, structured processes and clear governance come together. BORA now has a lively skill ecosystem that strengthens personal responsibility, prioritizes learning initiatives and minimizes administrative effort. With the support of edyoucated, skill-based organizations no longer need months to develop the current skill structure, but make a data-based basis for decision-making a reality within a few weeks.
