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Creating and Modifying a Skill

A skill is a consistent demonstrated level of proficiency in an area of expertise that an employee possesses or wants to achieve. For example, Oracle DBA, Presentation Skills, Leadership Ability, and Siebel ERM Administration are valid skills that an employee can attain. Some skills are subjective and are based more on the judgment or discretion of a manager. Other skills are objective and are based on an employee's successful completion of specific goals. Administrators can create and edit the skills that are used for competency management, and deactivate skills that are no longer needed.

NOTE:  You cannot create a skill using the name of an existing skill. Skill names must be unique within your Siebel application.

This task is a step in Process of Setting Up Competency Management.

To create a skill

1. From the application-level menu, choose Navigate > Site Map > Administration - Competency > Competency Administration.
2. In the Skill Hierarchy explorer, select a parent category.
3. In the Category/Skills Child list, add a record, and then complete the fields.
4. In the new record, select Skill in the Type field.

After the appropriate categories and skills have been created, you can assign specific skills to employees. You can also associate specific skills with training.

To edit a skill or category

1. From the application-level menu choose Navigate > Site Map > Administration - Competency > Competency Administration.
2. In the Skill Hierarchy explorer, navigate to the category or skill, and then modify the fields in the record as needed.

Removing a Skill

For data integrity reasons, categories and skills cannot be deleted from the system. However, you can set a flag to inactivate categories and skills, so that they cannot be accessed by employees.

To set the inactive flag for a category or skill

1. From the application-level menu, choose Navigate > Site Map > Administration - Competency > Competency Administration.
2. In the Skill Hierarchy explorer, select a category or skill.
3. In the Category/Skill list, select the record and click the Inactive check box.