Mandatory Qualifications for Assigning Resources to Projects

Designate qualifications on the project resource request as mandatory or optional. Resources that have the mandatory qualifications in their talent profile appear in the results when searching and evaluating qualified candidates for a request. Project managers can precisely communicate the most important qualifications required for a role on their project. When searching for qualified resources, the results automatically exclude resources who lack mandatory qualifications. This accelerates the selection process and ensures that the resource manager does not propose a resource lacking a key qualification.

Project managers can either specify the required qualifications at a role level or at an individual resource request level, as shown. These precise requirements are communicated to the resource managers to effectively fulfill the project's needs.

Manage Project Roles

Manage Project Roles

Create/Edit Resource Request

Create/Edit Resource Request

Resource managers can search and evaluate resources that meet the criteria for mandatory qualifications. This default search result helps them to exclude resources that do not have those required qualifications for a resource request without consuming too much time.

Search and Evaluate Qualified Resources

Search and Evaluate Qualified Resources

Qualified Resource Details

Qualified Resource Details

Resource managers can create an Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) report to find out the common mandatory qualifications.

These are the business benefits of this feature:

  • In large organizations where resource requests have non-negotiable requirements, resource managers can find resources that meet the non-negotiable requirements in a more optimized manner.
  • Project managers can effectively communicate the required/mandatory requirements with the resource managers to fulfill the project's needs.
  • OTBI reports containing the mandatory qualifications help the resource managers to better plan for their resource requirements.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Project Execution Management  No Longer Optional From: Update 24C

Tips And Considerations

  • Resource managers can override the criteria for mandatory qualifications in the same way as it has been done for other criteria in past requests while searching and evaluating resources for a resource request.
  • Resources without mandatory qualifications can still be nominated to the request.
  • Proficiency is independent of whether qualification is mandatory or not.
  • The calculation of the qualification score is not dependent on whether the qualification is mandatory or not.
  • Keywords are not enabled for Mandatory designation.

Key Resources

  • Related Help:
    • Upgrading Oracle Cloud HCM Profile Management (Doc ID 2421964.1).
    • Using Enhanced Talent Profiles in the Talent Management guide.

Access Requirements

No new access requirements.