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Absorb Skills: AI-powered upskilling that drives results

Empower your workforce to close skill gaps, boost performance, and drive measurable outcomes. Absorb Skills combines these key elements of an enterprise-grade upskilling solution:

  • AI-powered tools and content recommendations for personalized learning
  • Market-informed job roles and skills frameworks to simplify set-up
  • Flexible content sources to support diverse learning needs
  • Expert activation guidance to drive engagement and learning outcomes
  • Actionable reporting for data-driven insights and next steps

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Future-ready starts with Absorb Skills

Absorb Skills turns upskilling into measurable results. While 87% of companies struggle with skill gaps that result in costly turnover and talent shortages, smart organizations use strategic upskilling to stay ahead and adapt faster than ever. Most learning management systems track completions. But by connecting upskilling directly to skills, job roles, and business outcomes, Absorb Skills changes the game.

With Absorb Skills, your people have powerful tools to develop future-ready skills that matter. They'll become more engaged and adaptable. And you'll get clear data on how upskilling improves your productivity and retention.

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The Absorb Skills advantage

Absorb Skills leads with a strategic approach to upskilling. Most platforms track what employees complete. We focus on what they actually achieve.

Four ways Absorb Skills drives real results:

  • Skills as strategy: Your upskilling connects directly to business outcomes, not completion tracking.
  • Seamless learning experience: Identify skill gaps, access learning content, and track progress within a single platform.
  • Built for agility: Adapt learning content, job roles, and skills as markets, roles, and priorities evolve.
  • Technology + expertise: Drive adoption and impact with our expert-made resources including playbooks, bootcamps, and 24/7 global support.

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Flexible by design

Your organization faces distinct challenges and learning priorities. Your upskilling solution demands a tailored approach, not a one-size-fits-all solution.

Absorb Skills is built for flexibility. Launch with our Amplify Max library—20,000+ expert-curated courses ready to deploy. Integrate your proprietary content for specialized training. Connect courses from a third-party provider you currently use.

Moving fast? Our job roles and skills framework gets you running immediately. Need precision? Full customization capabilities mirror your company's organizational structure. This is adaptability in action. Your business drives the platform and Absorb serves your success.

Key features of Absorb Skills

Pre-built frameworks

Pre-built frameworks

Launch faster and reduce admin overhead with our market-informed job roles and skills framework—giving you a ready-made foundation for scalable upskilling.

Flexible content options

Flexible content options

Absorb Skills works seamlessly with any content source—proprietary, custom, or third-party—giving you the freedom to build an upskilling program that fits your strategy.

AI-driven learning paths

AI-driven learning paths

Boost learner engagement with personalized course recommendations driven by AI—tailored to individual goals and skill gaps for a more impactful upskilling experience.

Customizable set-up

Customizable set-up

Tailor job roles, skills, and content to match your organization’s structure and goals—ensuring your upskilling strategy aligns with real business needs.

Skills auto-tagging

Skills auto-tagging

Automatically identifies relevant skills for any course uploaded to your LMS—making custom and external content integration seamless, scalable, and ready for action.

Expert-led activation

Expert-led activation

Maximize learner engagement and upskilling outcomes with expert-built playbooks, online bootcamps, and 24/7 support—designed to accelerate adoption and drive results.

Amplify Max library

Amplify Max library

Jumpstart your upskilling program with over 20,000 expert-curated, ready-to-use courses—covering a wide range of industries and topics to drive faster learning and measurable results.

Learner self-assessment

Learner self-assessment

Empowers employees to take ownership of their growth by identifying skill gaps and unlocking personalized learning paths that drive real career impact.

Skills reporting

Skills reporting

Gain instant visibility into skill gaps, strengths, and progress across your organization—empowering smarter decisions and faster impact through Analyze BI and Direct.

FAQs about Absorb Skills

How does Absorb Skills support enterprise upskilling?

Absorb Skills is an AI-powered upskilling tool within Absorb LMS that identifies, tracks, and develops employee skills at scale. It enables organizations to close skill gaps effectively, align learning with business goals, and prepare employees for future roles.

What kind of content can I use with Absorb Skills?

Absorb Skills comes pre-tagged to 20,000+ courses in the Amplify Max library, so you can launch quickly and only fill gaps with supplementary content. It also works seamlessly with custom materials and third-party libraries. With bulk auto-tagging, you can map skills to any content source in minutes—making setup fast and effortless.

Why would I need a tool like Absorb Skills to run an upskilling program?

Absorb Skills is the AI-tool you need to gain visibility into your workforce's strengths and gaps, while also delivering personalized learning to each learner in your organization. It provides a structured, meaningful way for employees to set goals, engage with content, and track progress. With Absorb Skills as the backbone of your upskilling strategy, you can run an effective upskilling program at scale, proving impact on productivity, retention, and growth.

How quickly can Absorb Skills be implemented?

Deployment timelines vary by organization size and complexity, but many enterprises see value in weeks, not months, thanks to the prebuilt frameworks, AI-powered tools, and auto-tagging functionality within Absorb Skills.

Ready to see how Absorb Skills can help your organization?