Profile Types

Profile types include person profile types and model profile types. Use the Manage Profile Types task in the Profiles or Setup and Maintenance work area to create a profile type.

Note: If you are still using Classic Talent Profiles, you should upgrade to Enhanced Talent Profiles before release 21A. Any relevant topics from this chapter have been updated and moved to My Oracle Support: Upgrading Oracle Cloud HCM Profile Management (Doc ID 2421964.1).

Person Profile Types

The person profile type:

• Is the template that you use to create profiles of your workers or nonworkers.

• Contains the skills, qualities, and qualifications that you want to track for your workers.

Model Profile Types

The model profile type:

• Is a template for workforce structures such as jobs and positions. You can set up multiple model profile types.

  Note: You must use the Job profile type to create profiles for jobs or positions.

• Identifies the targeted and required skills and qualifications for a job or position.

• Identifies work requirements, such as work schedule and travel frequency.

About Defining Profile Types

To define profile types, you first specify whether the profile type is a person or model profile. For model profiles, you also specify the workforce structures for which the model profile can be used. However, to create a position profile you must use the Job profile type as the template. To define the structure of the profile type, you add one or more content sections using content types from the content library and free-form content types. Define the following for each content section:

• Instance qualifier sets

• Section properties

• Role access

Note: You access the Behaviors content section only after you select the Competencies content section on the Edit Profile Type page.

Instance Qualifier Sets

If you have defined instance qualifier sets for the content type, you select the instance qualifier set to use for the sections. You can't define instance qualifiers for the Behaviors content type.

Section Properties

The properties determine the fields and how they are displayed when you create profiles based on the type. For example, properties determine the label for the field, whether the field is required, and whether the field should be included in profile searches.

You define all of the properties for free-form content types.

Role Access

You can specify user roles such as Employee or Manager, which define who can view the content section, and who can update the section.

Effective Dates of Profiles

You can associate multiple profiles with a workforce structure. However, only one profile can be in effect at a time for the workforce structure. Therefore, the effective start and end dates of multiple profiles associated with a workforce structure must not overlap.