Learning recommendations lifecycle and delivered recommendations

Learning recommendations help learners discover relevant learning based on their roles, interests, skills, learning activity, and organizational context. Learning specialists create recommendation profiles, and the Recommend Learning background process refreshes recommendations as learner activity, talent profiles, and recommendation criteria change.

Most recommendations follow this general lifecycle:

1. Learning specialists create and manage recommendation profiles by selecting a profile type that specifies how to create the recommendations. Each profile type provides a different set of recommendation options.

   Task: My Client Groups > Learning and Development > Recommendation Profiles.

2. The Recommend Learning background process uses the profiles to generate or refresh recommendations.
3. Learners review, dismiss, or complete recommended learning.

Recommendations are grouped into categories that help learners discover relevant learning more easily. For example, Oracle Learning delivers recommendations for these categories:

Category	Description
Popular in current role	Based on voluntary learning completed by people in the same job or job family during the past six months. Learners with multiple active assignments get recommendations related to each role or job family.
Recommendations for current job	Based on gaps between learner job requirements and their talent profile, including competencies, skills, certifications, education, memberships, languages, and honors. Learners with multiple jobs get recommendations related to each role.
Recommendations for current role gaps	Based on gaps between a learner's current role and the associated position profile. The recommendations are designed to help close those gaps.
Recommendations based on your careers of interest gaps	Based on gaps between careers of interest and the learner's talent profile. The recommendations help learners prepare for future roles and career goals.
Recommendations for your manager-assigned skills	Based on skills assigned by managers in Skills Center. Recommended learning has matching learning outcomes.
Recommendations for skills I'm developing	Based on the skills a learner adds to the Skills I’m developing section of their skills center.
Trending in current role	Based on voluntary learning completed in the last week by others in their role, their careers of interest, and with their managers and peers.

To share a direct link to this part of the learning catalog with learners, use this format: <Your Instance URL>/fscmUI/redwood/learner/learn/browse-learning-items?selectedTab=recommended

When learners complete a recommended course, the associated recommendation is removed automatically with the ORA_AUTO_WITHD_ASGMNT_COMP reason code. You can track the effectiveness of your recommendations by using this code in reports and searches.

Completed learning and dismissed recommendations aren't recommended again.