Skills Overview in Workforce Optimization for Customer Service

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 2 minutes to read
  • Use Skills Overview to analyze skill data such as how many skills are assigned to users and tasks. You can also see how many experts you have for a particular skill and the overall skill coverage by your teams.

    Access Skills Overview from the Teams application:
    1. Go to Workspaces > Manager Workspace.
    2. Click the Teams icon Teams icon..
    3. Select a team.
    4. Click the Skills tab.
    5. Select a skill.
    You can access the Skills Overview page when you click on a skill in a user profile page in any Workforce Optimization for Customer Service application.
    Note:
    You must enable the Coaching With Learning application to view the reports from the application. For enabling this application, see Activate Workforce Optimization for Customer Service.

    Skill overview page displaying a skill assigned to tasks, agents, on-call experts, and a pie chart of skill coverage experience level dispersal.

    Use cases

    Table 1. Use Cases
    User Landing page use
    Skill Admin [skill_admin]
    • Analyze all experts available for each skill.
    • Drill down into the skill hierarchy.
    • Number of skills assigned to users and tasks.
    • The mean time taken to resolve incidents for that skill.
    • Visualize how many users you have at different skill levels.

    Indicators

    MTTR of incidents of skill - Mean time taken to resolve incidents with this skill.

    Breakdowns

    The indicator is broken down by Skill.

    Components

    Table 2. Components
    Component Name Type Description
    Skill Overview Container [sn-manager-skill-overview-container] Visualization components Contains the following components:
    • Reports
    • Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR) indicator
    • Skill Coverage pie chart
    • Content tree
    • Skill Experts components
    Skill Tree Connected [sn-manager-skill-tree-connected] Tree Displays the skill hierarchy. If the selected skill does not have a skill hierarchy then the component will not display on the Skill Overview page.
    Skill Experts [sn-manager-skill-experts-connected] List Displays all users who are at the expert level for the skill.
    Skill Coverage [now-uxf-visualization-connected] Pie-chart Displays the percentage as well as the number of users with different levels of expertise for the skill.

    Reports

    Important:
    The Pending Users and Assigned Tasks reports display when you enable the Coaching with Learning application from the ServiceNow® Store. To enable this application, see Activate Workforce Optimization for Customer Service.
    Table 3. KPIs
    Title Type Source table Description
    Assigned Users Single score icon. User Skill [sys_user_has_skill] The number of users who have the selected skill assigned to them.
    Assigned Tasks Single score icon. Task Skill [task_m2m_skill] The number of tasks for which this skill has been assigned.
    Pending Users Single score icon. Pending Users [sn_lc_learning_task] The numbers of users who are yet to be assigned the selected skill from the learning task.
    Course Items Single score icon. Learning Course Item [sn_lc_course_item] The number of internal and external courses that have the skill associated with the course item.