A workforce readiness taxonomy for the cable and connectivity industry, built by From Here Collective on the Readiness Prism methodology. Fifty-one roles. Five dimensions of what makes someone ready for the work.
Fifty-one roles. Eleven families.
Pick a role tile to open its full readiness profile, including practitioner recommendations for employers, workforce partners, and individuals, plus a Future of Work narrative grounded in industry research. Download the full profile as a PDF for use in meetings or planning sessions.
Every element. Two views each.
Every dimension contains a curated list of readiness elements drawn from how the cable and connectivity workforce actually operates. Pick a dimension, then a domain, to see the elements. Switch the toggle to read every element in technical or plain language.
Skills are necessary but incomplete.
Skills taxonomies took off because they were the tractable problem. Skills are observable, they map cleanly to job descriptions, and the software ecosystem was built to consume them. The harder question stayed open: why do two candidates with the same skills perform differently in the same role? Skills predict capability. They cannot predict whether the work will get done reliably, whether the person will fit the role's daily reality, whether they will sustain performance under pressure, or what they could do next based on what they have already carried. Those questions live in the four dimensions skills alone cannot see.
Skills Taxonomy
Skills alone.
One dimension that maps capabilities to job descriptions, useful for hiring screens and credential alignment.
Readiness Taxonomy
Skills, plus what skills cannot see.
Five dimensions that predict performance, fit, durability, and next moves. Contains a skills taxonomy and adds knowledge, attributes, experiences, and habits.
Where the Library actually gets used.
A taxonomy is only as valuable as the workflows it powers. The Library is built to support the talent decisions companies make every day, from hiring through development to strategic planning.
Here is how the Library was built.
Built on layered sourcing, AI-assisted production, and practitioner review. Calibrated to one industry at depth.
Selected to mirror how cable and connectivity companies organize work, spanning frontline through middle-management altitude. Leadership coverage follows separately.
O*NET and BLS provide the federal anchors. Industry reality comes from job postings at companies like Comcast, Charter, and Cox. Trade publications including Light Reading, NCTA, and SCTE add cable-specific dynamics, with analyst reports from McKinsey, Gartner, and Forrester grounding the automation context.
Every element is sorted into the right dimension using the Readiness Prism, From Here's proprietary framework for distinguishing knowledge from skills, skills from attributes, attributes from habits, and habits from experiences. AI-assisted generation runs the placement; the framework keeps category boundaries clean across all 51 roles, with canonical names carried forward so the taxonomy stays consistent.
A consolidated taxonomy across five dimensions. Every role draws from it, so roles share vocabulary even when they differ in emphasis.
The Readiness Prism is universal, applicable to any industry. The role population, the taxonomy, and the practitioner recommendations are calibrated to the cable and connectivity industry specifically. When a company picks the Library up, the content gets customized further to their internal vocabulary, role architecture, and the decisions on the table.
Where this goes from here.
The Library is a foundation, not a finished product. Companies that find it useful tend to want it adapted to their specific role population and the decisions they're sitting with. We work with a small number at a time. Glad to talk through whether the shape fits.