Guidelines for Loading Classic Talent Profile Data

The talent profile objects are Talent Profile, Content Item, Content Items Relationship, Education Establishment, and Rating Model. This topic describes aspects of the talent profile objects that you must understand to load them successfully using HCM Data Loader.

Note: If you are still using Classic Talent Profiles, you should upgrade to Enhanced Talent Profiles before release 21A.For Person Profiles, see this file Enhanced Talent Profiles Section Template.pdf on My Oracle Support: Upgrading Oracle Cloud Profile Management (Doc ID 2421964.1). It describes the structure of each template that can be used to help create the TalentProfile.dat file to load Person Profile information via HCM Data Loader.Any relevant topics from this chapter have been updated and moved to My Oracle Support: Upgrading Oracle Cloud Profile Management (Doc ID 2421964.1).

Loading Talent Profiles

Talent profiles include person profiles and model profiles. A person profile contains information about a worker's skills, qualifications, accomplishments, and career preferences. A model profile contains information about the skills and qualifications required for a job or position. You can load both person and model profiles using HCM Data Loader.

The following table summarizes key information about some components of the Talent Profile object.

Component	Description
Profile Item	Holds the data for a content item. Content items are skills, qualifications, and qualities belonging to content types in the content library. For example, Communication Skills may be a content item in the Competencies content type. Profile Item components must be unique in the profile. Note that: Duplicate profile items have the same qualifiers and overlapping start and end dates. In case of person profile competency both QualifierId1 and QualifierId2 are mandatory. QualifierId1 specifies who added the competency, for example, the manager, HR, or self. QualifierId2 specifies who reviewed the change.
Profile Keyword	Holds keywords for areas of expertise and areas of interest in person profiles. Not valid for model profiles.
Profile Relation	Links a model profile to a job or position. These rules apply: You can't link a model profile to a job family or organization when you upload the profile using HCM Data Loader. Any model profile that you load for those structures is therefore for information purposes only. You can't associate a job or position more than once with the same profile. Not valid for person profiles.

A person can have only one person profile. You must supply a reference to the person for whom you're creating the person profile. You must not supply a person reference for a model profile.

Note: The Description attribute of the Talent Profile object isn't required. However, you're recommended always to provide it for a person profile and include the worker name. Otherwise, the person profile doesn't appear in search results when you perform a basic search on the Search: Profiles page.

Loading Content Items

A content item is a specific occurrence of a content type. The associated content types and their field properties must exist in the target environment before you load content items to the content library. The field properties of the content type represent the information that you can capture for the content item.

Loading Content Items Relationships

A content items relationship defines the relationship between two content items. A content item can be either the parent or the child of another content item. These rules apply:

• The two content items must belong to different content types.

• You can't create more than one relationship between the same two content items. For example, content item A can't be both the parent and the child of content item B.

• You can't create a relationship between a content item and itself.

• The start and end dates of the content items relationship must not be outside the date ranges of the associated content items.

• The relationship between the associated content types must exist in the target environment before you load the related content items.

Loading Education Establishments

An education establishment is a school, college, university, or other organization that workers select when they add education information to their profiles. You may obtain a list of education establishments from a third party, for example. You can upload this information using HCM Data Loader.

These geography structures must exist in the target environment before you load education establishments that refer to them:

• Country

• State or Province

Loading Rating Models

You use rating models to rate workers on their performance and proficiency in the skills and qualities in the person profile. You can also use rating models to specify target proficiency levels for items in a model profile. You must include the parent Rating Model component in the same file as any child Rating Level and Rating Category components that you're loading.