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Creating and Modifying a Skill

A skill is a specific asset that an employee possesses or desires. For example, Oracle DBA, Presentation Skills, Leadership Ability, and Siebel ERM Administration are valid skills that an employee can possess. 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 the skills that are used for competency management.

NOTE:  You cannot create a skill using the name of an existing skill. Skill names must be unique within your Siebel application. You can, however, associate the same skill with multiple categories.

To create a skill

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

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

Editing a Skill

When you edit a skill, the changes you make affect each category that includes the modified skill. For example, Presentation Skill can exist within the Training Category and the Power Point Category. If you make changes to the Presentation Skill within the Training Category, the same changes appear in the Presentation Skill within the Power Point Category.

To edit a skill or category

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

    3. The changes you make to a skill or category affect each occurrence of the selected item within Competency Management.

Deactivating a Skill

You can deactivate a category or skill to make it unavailable to employees.

To deactivate a category or skill

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

 Siebel Employee Relationship Management Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003