How You Create Person Profiles

The person profile is a profile type you create for individual workers. Person profile data, such as the skills, qualifications, accomplishments, and career preferences of a person, is displayed on Skills and Qualifications and Career Planning pages on a worker's person profile.

HR specialists or implementors can create person profiles from the application, or implementors can upload them using tools such as HCM Data Loader.

The application provides the functionality to automatically create person profiles for person records. You can enable or disable this functionality using the Autocreate Person Profiles check box. By default, this check box is already selected. The Autocreate Person Profiles check box is available on the Edit Profile Type page of the person profile type. Use the Manage Profile Types task in the Profiles or Setup and Maintenance work area to edit the person profile type.

When the Autocreate Person Profiles check box is selected:

• The application automatically creates the person profile for that person when someone accesses the Skills and Qualifications page for a person.

• The person profile added for a pending worker is activated on the effective hire date for an employee or the effective placement date for a contingent worker.

If you choose to deselect the Autocreate Person Profiles check box for the person profile type and no profile exists for a person, the application displays an error message to create or upload profile when you access that person's Skills and Qualifications page. However, when uploading talent profile data from external sources, you must deselect the Autocreate Person Profiles check box to avoid duplication of person profiles.