Assigning Core Skills

You can assess your team’s progress in achieving core skills assigned to them, so you can help them fill any gaps. A core skill is a skill you as a manager can assign to your team members. These are skills that your team members must develop based on your team development and organizational objectives.

Through core skills, you can specify skill requirements deemed essential by you for any of the following assignee types:

• Jobs: Any jobs in the application, regardless of whether they have job profiles associated, so the skills will be assigned to anyone in your team who has this job. You may set up role core skills for roles with no people in them, in anticipation of that role being filled.
• People: People reporting to you through a primary assignment.
  • Direct Reports: Your own direct reports or those of any of the lower-level managers reporting to you
  • Organization: Your own organization or that of any of the lower-level managers reporting to you
  • Specific people in your organization

When adding a core skill:

• You can use type-ahead suggestions presented to you when you start typing in a skill.
• You may choose a skill that is already a role skill. This way you can create your own skill criteria for your team.
• You can optionally choose skill levels when assigning core skills, if skill levels are available in the application. Your team’s skill achievement is shown in relation to the core skill level requirement that you have specified.

You can set up core skills for team members reporting to you at any level of the hierarchy through a primary assignment. A core skill may be assigned to a team member by any of their higher-level managers.

• More than one higher-level manager in the team member hierarchy may assign the same core skill with the same or a different skill level requirement. In this case, the skill level applied to your team in your dashboard will be the highest level among all the levels required by you and your higher-level managers.
• Conversely, your higher-level managers may have assigned core skills to your team members that you may not have directly assigned to them. These core skills will also show in your dashboard as assigned to your team members, so you can assess their progress.

When you assign or update a core skill:

• The skill assignment is queued to be picked up by a background process scheduled by the administrator, and propagated to impacted employee profiles, such that the assignment shows in their Skill Center pages.
• If the required skill already exists on a profile, the background process will simply update the required skill level, if specified, to the highest level required among all the level requirements specified.
• If an assignment errors out due to an unexpected or severe application error, you have to re-create your assignment so that it can be processed again.
• To lower the skill level of an assigned skill, unassign and reassign it, then provide the new rating.

You can view all assignments you have created, the details, and status thus far, in the activity log on your dashboard.

Other Skills

You can also view other skills that your employees have or are developing of their own accord, besides the core and role skills that may be required of them. This could provide a valuable view into skills that are available in your organization for new product and organizational growth opportunities including rare skills.