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Kahuna Overview

What is Kahuna?

Kahuna Workforce Solutions is a leading skills and competency management SaaS platform designed for operations, learning, and human resources. Enterprise organizations across energy and oil, field service, healthcare, and manufacturing use Kahuna to track and validate skills to ensure work gets done safely and efficiently on the frontlines. Kahuna's validated skills data provides insights into workforce capability, helps leaders understand talent supply and demand, and maximizes training investments to build a more skilled, adaptable, and competitive workforce.

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Product Description

Competency Management platform

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Kahuna's skills management software is the only purpose-built solution for validating technical skills. Kahuna is flexible and focuses on skills management as its own business process, enabling companies to keep their current processes rather than being forced to adopt something new.

Kahuna integrates with HR, L&D, and Operational systems to make these technologies skill-aware, driving strategic talent and operational decisions and helping organizations build a skills-based organization.


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Year Founded
2018
HQ Location
Houston, TX
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@kahunaworkforce
2,312 Twitter followers
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63 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Kahuna Workforce Solutions is a workforce management company that specializes in providing innovative staffing and scheduling solutions for businesses across various industries. They focus on optimizing labor resources through advanced technology and analytics, helping organizations enhance operational efficiency and improve employee engagement. Their services include workforce planning, time and attendance tracking, and compliance management, aimed at streamlining processes and reducing costs. For more information, visit their website at https://kahunaworkforce.com/.


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Romeo Antonio II L.
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Romeo Antonio II L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"It's a competence learning tool that meets our organizations needs."
Kahuna digitizes the entire competency management process, reducing the reliance on disconnected systems and spreadsheets. This streamlines the cur...
Katelyn P.
KP
Katelyn P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Fantastic System for Competency Management"
Kahuna is easy to use and provides fantastic customer support. Our organization uses Kahuna daily and it has been a game changer for our HR team, l...
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5.0 out of 5
"Come for the platform, stay for the support!"
The platform is easy to use and their support team is next level! While no platform is perfect the Kahuna team has helped us ensure that we are get...
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Kahuna Demo - Team Matrix
The team matrix is a single pane of glass view of your team’s skill assessments and gaps. - Actionable detailed team skill heatmap - Managers can quickly gauge their team’s strengths and weaknesses - Quickly search for employees with required skills
Kahuna Demo - Employee Dashboard
Individual status overview brings all the employee’s skills assignments and to-dos into a single view. The employee can quickly focus on their gaps, newly assigned skills, and expected level for their role. - Highlight what skills have been assigned to the employee - Provide clarity for employe...
Kahuna Demo - Assessment Form
Flexible form that is utilized to assign and perform an assessment of employees. - Enable blended assessments with multiple levels, descriptors, inputs, workflow stages, and assessors through flexible assessment forms. - Use varying assessment approaches: Observational checklists, Quiz, On-the-...
Kahuna Demo - Assignment Workbench
The skill library displays a parent-child taxonomy of skills, competencies, qualifications, and certifications. Administrators can view and manage their team and all of the skill roles currently assigned. - Utilize a flexible and deep skills library data model that enables multiple skill librari...
Kahuna Demo - Talent Finder
Allow users to search for employees that match job criteria with specific attributes. - Query all validated skills data, learning and training completions, and experiences tracked in Kahuna - Quickly find the right talent to meet current and future workforce demands
Kahuna Demo - Capability Planning
Create future demand scenarios and measure the current workforce skills supply. - Use skill data to understand the skill deficits or overages - Create action and development plans to reskill and close skill gaps to fill demand scenario
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Katelyn P.
KP
Learning and Development Coordinator
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Kahuna?

Kahuna is easy to use and provides fantastic customer support. Our organization uses Kahuna daily and it has been a game changer for our HR team, leaders, and educators to manage competencies and the employee onboarding process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kahuna?

There are a few key features that we'd like to see in Kahuna that have caused some barriers. However, our support team has been fantastic at supporting those goals and implementing workarounds if possible in the meantime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kahuna solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had a lot of missing pieces and clunky processes involved with competency management pre-Kahuna. After implementing the system, we are able to have a better grasp on compliance and support our employees growth and skills more holistically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Romeo Antonio II L.
RL
Global Engineering Technical Competence Program lead - Global Trading &amp; Supply Engineering
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Kahuna?

Kahuna digitizes the entire competency management process, reducing the reliance on disconnected systems and spreadsheets. This streamlines the curation, assignment, assessment, and development of skills and competencies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kahuna?

At the moment its not integrated to the official HR CMS tool. You are required to perform monthly uploads and downloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kahuna solving and how is that benefiting you?

For our organization, it's primarily on compliance to the required skill and competencies for specific roles. Before Kahuna we do not have a clear visual on the status of the organization and individuals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Veterinary
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Kahuna?

The platform is easy to use and their support team is next level! While no platform is perfect the Kahuna team has helped us ensure that we are getting everything we can to ensure the best possible end user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kahuna?

We are using the platform in a few different ways and some functionality is best suited for a more skill based application so we've had to make some adjustments for the competency based application but again with the fantastic support team we've been able to make adjustments and are excited for what we've created. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kahuna solving and how is that benefiting you?

For our specific application for the first time we're having learners evaluate their skills before jumping into training to ensure we're honoring previous experience and focusing development time on areas that will have the biggest impact. This is a huge game changer for us since development time is limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Veterinary
AV
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Kahuna?

The in-depth support, walkthroughs, and EXTENSIVE patience that the team had with our group's questions was above and beyond. Once we got the hang of the system, it improved our processes immensely, AND our associates, some of whom will use it EVERY DAY, are going to have a much more positive user experience than our previous system(s). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kahuna?

It's a relatively steep learning curve so it takes a bit of time and hands-on experience before you feel confident, but the team really helped us get there quickly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kahuna solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had a lot of limitations in our previous system, mainly non-line manager/supervisor-based accessibility/visibility problems, and Kahuna is solving them completely. One of the programs we're moving into Kahuna will now be more straight forward, easier to follow, and result in faster completion for our associates that are looking to develop and promote. We also have FAR less manual steps the administration team will need to manage, saving us a LOT of time, headaches, and money! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rob R.
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Executive Director, Global Resource Operations
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Kahuna?

The Kahuna Skills management solution in and of itself is absolutely a game changer for any organization that has a need to closely track and monitor the development of their employees skills, certifications, licenses or qualifications and align those to operational excellence. Deep levels of customization, integration with the existing HR Technology stack, quick and powerful analytics as well as ease of use for all levels of user is the muscle that defines the value at a high level and the level of detail able to be created from a wholistic view is a differenciator with competitor solutions. This is my second deployment of Kahuna in two field services organizations over the past 7 years or so and it has been a game changer. The icing on the cake is the actual Kahuna team themselves. I have never met a more knowledgeable and focused service provider in this space. Any support requests are met with responses typically in less than 12 hours, and the account support team maintains an ongoing and valuable relationship with their clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kahuna?

There is really no distractors that I can think of for this platform. I would say that if you have a very small organization, perhaps this isnt the solution for you from a SaaS cost perspective -but if you have more than about 100 employees, and particularly if you are linking the data to resource deployment and/or you have a need for a very solid and auditable system or record, the ROI is exceptionally easy to justify. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kahuna solving and how is that benefiting you?

Larger focus on wholistic Operational Capability modeling to allow the tool and associated data to be used for strategic growth and customer variability in needs. Additionally, with Kahuna as the centerpiece, all training demand is informed by assignment of role profiles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy
AO
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
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What do you like best about Kahuna?

Kahuna was the solution our company was looking for in a CMS. We enjoy the flexibility and customization you can implement to fit the various business needs. We look forward to continuing to partner with Kahuna and explore new ideas as our industry continues to transform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kahuna?

The email system notifications, dashboards and import templates could be improved. Although these areas could use some improvements the Kahuna team does listen to their customer's request and we have witnessed several improvements request implemented yearly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kahuna:

I would recommend being completely transparent of potential issues you have had in the past and the vision moving forward as this team has the ability to provide you with solutions needed for your business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kahuna solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to implement Career Paths across our Operations teams globally with ease. This has helped us tremendously by identifying mandatory requirements and assigning with specific logic. Also, with this in place we can select the right qualified employee for the task. The users have found the system to be beneficial and transparency has been key for their careers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MC
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Kahuna?

We compared seven competency management systems, and Kahuna outstood them all! Each company demonstrated its product, and Kahuna's team was the most professional and experienced. Every Kahuna team member we've worked with has been pleasant, organized, timely, and helpful. We have worked on many projects at our healthcare organization, and this has been one of our best experiences to date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kahuna?

Nothing to dislike. Our experience has been great so far and we recommend that all consider using the software and working with the Kahuna team. Will update this review if anything changes along the way! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kahuna solving and how is that benefiting you?

The paper-based competency system we use has its downsides like papers getting lost, inefficient and time-wasting, requires manual admin work, little transparency for progress, etc. Kahuna solves all these issues as it is digital, quick, has a team matrix/dashboard, and provides reports. It also allows us to link learning resources so that users can quickly find related information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BC
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Kahuna?

Easy access, digital platform, outcome reports, excellent customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kahuna?

Too many clicks, can seem overwhelming when starting out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kahuna solving and how is that benefiting you?

We now know the skill set and competency of a nurse who floats to another unit.

Everyone has access who needs to.

No lost check lists

We can check the completion of Mandatory education Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy
AO
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
(Original )Information
What do you like best about Kahuna?

The team I have worked with from Kahuna has taken the time to really show us the program and also helped us understand how the system can improve different aspects of our business. Kahuna truly feels like another member of our team and they treat our relationship as a true partnership. As a whole, they are very committed to the success of the team. Their customer service is also at another level. We have requested several upgrades, and feature changes, and they have delivered these in a timely fashion and been very open on the timeline to get these changes made. Because of our partnership we have been able to integrate the development of our employees into our process and are able to prove the growth and track the trends with the data that is collected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kahuna?

Really I have no dislikes. The main reason for this is that anytime I have had an issue or needed something changed the team has always been there to support my team and helps achieve our goals. The team over a Kahuna has really listened to their customers and improved upon their systems based on customer feedback. Most providers say "here is the system you make it work", but that isn't Kahuna they say "How can we make it work for you." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kahuna solving and how is that benefiting you?

One major problem that we have solved with Kahuna is showing our employees the road map to their careers. Kahuna gives us the foundation to help our employees develop. This intern has also helped us with our attrition and ensured we are promoting the correct employees when they are ready for their next job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jane F.
JF
Senior Administrator Nursing Professional Development
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic Review from User Profile
What do you like best about Kahuna?

Kahuna staff have worked beside us to streamline the complex processes of onboarding competent nurses into our large multistate system possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kahuna?

We cannot imagine a better partner in this vital work, which matters to our staff and, ultimately, ensures the safe care of our patients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Kahuna solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can transform the onboarding experience for new staff with streamlined processes that integrate competence validation with education, all at the nurse's fingertips. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.