Understanding Scales for Employee Competencies

A competency scale is a method of measuring an employee level of proficiency in a particular competency. You must associate a scale with each competency before you can begin entering competency information for employees. You can use the same scale for every competency, or you can define a separate scale for each competency. For example, for C programming ability, in the Skill competency type, you might define the numeric scale as described in this table:

Scale Value	Description
1	Beginner
2	Competent
3	Accomplished
4	Expert

For each level on a scale, you define a low value and a high value. Scale values always increase from low to high; therefore, low values always mean less proficient and high values mean more proficient. You can either enter the scale values manually or have the system generate them automatically.

If you are also tracking job competencies, the scales that you define for employee competencies are the same scales that you use for job competencies.