Overview of Profile Management
Profile management provides a framework for developing and managing talent profiles that meet your industry or organizational requirements. Profiles summarize the qualifications and skills of a person or a workforce structure such as a job or position.
Profiles are valuable for tracking workers' skills, competencies, and accomplishments, and for various talent management activities, such as career planning, identifying training needs, performance management, and in the recruitment process for identifying job requirements and suitable applicants.
If you are still using Classic Talent Profiles, you should upgrade to Enhanced Talent Profiles before release 21A.
In the Enhanced Talent Profiles feature, the display of the person profile and talent ratings has a more engaging and responsive interface design. The new user experience enables features to be presented on both mobile and web pages. The interfaces are simple, intuitive and are written in a more conversational language.
The administration enhancements provide increased product performance and extensibility. The enhanced solution introduces content templates that represent the talent content (for example, Competencies, Certificates, Skills, and Awards) required to support the Oracle Talent Management Suite. Each content template includes unique attributes. These content templates can be used and reused to create the content sections necessary to capture talent data. The templates can be used to design both person and model talent profiles.
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).
This topic discusses:
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Profile search
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Profile comparison
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Best-fit analysis
Profile Search
You can search for worker, job, and position profiles based on certain criteria. For example, a Human Resource (HR) Specialist in London requiring to fill an Applications Developer position internally, can search for profiles of all workers who are based in London and have experience with Java and PL/SQL.
Profile Comparison
Use the Compare option in the Organization Chart tab on the person gallery to compare profiles You can compare profiles to determine next career moves or training needs for workers, and identify suitable candidates for jobs. For example, John is looking for his next career move He can compare his profile to that of a job to determine whether his competency ratings match the targeted competency ratings in a job profile. If his Teamwork rating is 3 and the rating requirement for the job is 4, he has a deficiency of -1. John and his manager can use this gap to drive development plans and other talent management-related functions.
Best-Fit Analysis
Use the best-fit analysis to determine the person profile that most closely matches a job profile and vice versa. For example, if you want to fill a Developer vacancy, and the job profile requires a B.S. degree in Computer Science, level 4 expertise in Java, and a rating of at least 3 in Teamwork, you can review an automatically-generated list of workers who most closely match this set of requirements. You can also use the best-fit analysis to find workers who are similar to a selected worker, or jobs that are similar to a selected job.
For more information about Best Fit, see My Oracle Support: Oracle Profile Management: Best Fit Analyses (Doc ID 2043543.1).