Employee skills profile

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    Summary of Employee Skills Profile

    The Employee Skills Profile allows employees to view and manage their skills and proficiencies, helping them identify skill gaps and update their skill sets. The Skills Intelligence application powers the skills widget on the Career tab of the employee profile, enabling easy access to skills data. Employees can add, update, or remove skills to enhance their competitiveness within the organization.

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    Key Features

    • Skills Widget: Automatically added to the Career tab upon installation of the Skills Intelligence application.
    • Skill Management: Employees can add new skills, update existing ones, or remove outdated skills directly from their profile.
    • UI Elements: Key components include skill pills for individual skills, options to upload a resume or LinkedIn profile, and an add skill menu for manual skill addition.
    • Sections of Skills Profile:
      • Required Skills: Essential skills for the employee's current position, helping identify gaps and recommended learning opportunities.
      • Additional Skills: Skills added by the employee, with an option to search and add skills manually.
      • Recommended Skills: Skills suggested based on the employee's role and existing profile.
    • Skill Validation: A green tick indicates validated skills, which can only have proficiency levels increased post-validation.
    • Skill Proficiency Levels: Indicate competency levels categorized by business needs, with instructions available for updates.

    Key Outcomes

    By utilizing the Employee Skills Profile, employees can effectively identify and address skill gaps, enhance their professional development, and align their skills with organizational needs. This tool empowers employees to stay competitive and improve their performance in their current roles.

    A skills profile is a section that shows an employee's skills and proficiencies. An employee can use the skills profile to see their skill gaps, add new skills, update the skills, or remove the outdated ones.

    Overview

    The Skills Intelligence application enables the skills widget on the Career tab of the employee profile page. The skills profile uses the Skills Intelligence application and automation to make the skills visible to your employees. An employee can add new skills, update existing skills, and remove the outdated ones in the skills profile. By seeing a comprehensive view of these details, your employees can upskill, update their skill gaps, or learn a new skill to stay competitive within your organization.

    The following example shows how a skills profile is displayed on a profile page.
    Figure 1. Viewing perspective of a skills profile
    Skills widget in career tab.
    Note:
    When your administrators install the skills intelligence application, the skills widget is added automatically to the Career tab of a profile page. Enable the system property sn_skills_int.enable_skills by setting it to True (by default that it’s False) to use the Skills widget in the Employee Portal.
    The following table lists the UI elements that an employee or manager should be familiar with while updating their skills profiles.
    Table 1. UI elements of a skills profile
    Name Description Actions
    Skill pill Single unit of information about a skill. It includes the name of the skill, the proficiency level in that skill, the menu option, and a green tick that indicates that the skill is validated.
    • Selecting the menu icon, you can change the proficiency level of that skill. For more information, see Update your skill proficiency level.
    • Selecting the menu icon, you can delete a skill in the additional skills section when the skill isn’t validated.
    Upload resume or LinkedIn profile Button Upload resume or LinkedIn profile icon. that you select to upload a resume or LinkedIn profile. For more information, see Import skills from your resume or LinkedIn profile.
    Note:
    When no role is assigned, or a skill isn't related to a role, you don't see any skills on your skills profile. In that case, you follow the instructions or prompts on the skills profile to upload your resume or LinkedIn profile.
    Add skill menu Menu that you can use Add skill menu icon. to add a skill to a profile. Using this option is helpful if you have a skill that must be listed in the skills related to a particular job or role. For more information, see Add skills by using the skill recommender.

    Key sections in a skills profile

    There are three sections within a skills profile. All the skills within these sections are sorted by the highest (required) to the lowest (recommended) skill rating.

    Required skills
    The required skills section displays the skills that are essential for the current position of the employee. An employee can use the required skills section to determine the skill gaps within a role and see the recommended learning opportunities to bridge the skill gaps. Employees can focus on excelling their skills based on their current roles.
    Additional skills
    The Additional skills section displays the skills that have been added by the employee. An employee can use the add skill menu in the section to search and add a skill manually.
    Recommended skills
    The Recommended skills section displays the additional skills that are related to the employee's profile. These details are based on the employee's role and existing profile.

    Validated skills

    The green tick mark in a skill pill indicates that an employee's skills are validated. For more information, see Validate skills in Manager Hub.
    Note:
    After a skill is validated, the employee can only increase the proficiency level. An employee can’t decrease the proficiency level or delete the skill from the profile.

    Skill proficiency level

    The skill proficiency level tells your employee's manager about the level of competency an employee has in a particular skill. These skills are categorized into different levels or tiers depending on the framework that suits your business needs. To learn how to change a skill proficiency level, see Update your skill proficiency level.