Demand Profiles

To determine training demand, you build profiles of employees with similar qualities who need to take the same training courses. A demand profile is a template that defines a set of criteria for selecting employees. For example, if managers in your Customer Support department must take the Time Management course, the demand profile would include the Customer Support department and manager job code as selection criteria.

Identifying workers who need training by using competencies is useful because you can include employees with certain competencies and proficiency levels for training in courses that can improve their competency levels and exclude employees who already possess those competencies. You can define selection criteria by inclusion, exclusion, or a combination of both. You can also define multiple criteria statements that the system processes in sequence, to further refine the profile.

Define demand profiles once and use them whenever you check training demand for a new budget period. You can create and maintain as many demand profiles as you need.