The skills page displays all of the learner’s selected and validated skills, providing a comprehensive overview of their abilities.
Understanding skills
This page displays all the skills that the learner has validated. They're grouped by skill type, for example Language skills, Soft skills, Professional skills and Other skills, and can be sorted by clicking on most column headings. Here's what the different columns mean:
| Trend | An arrow that shows the market trend for the skill: positive, stable or negative. |
| Name | The name of the skill. |
| Proficiency |
A star rating that shows the learner's current level of proficiency.
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| Proof point | Context for the learner's level of expertise. |
| Confirmed | A skill will only be marked as confirmed if the learner's manager confirms their skill and expertise level. |
| Like | Lets the learner mark the skills that they like. On the Opportunities page, the learner can choose the Skills you like filter to match opportunities only to those skills. |
| Learn | Lets the learner mark the skills that they want to improve on. |
| Share |
If a learner enables the sharing of their skill, it'll appear in their public profile in the knowledge exchange. Click here to read more about knowledge exchange. If they would like to share all their skills, they can tick the Share all my skills checkbox near the top of the screen: |
Adding skills
At the top of the skills page you'll see that there are a couple of different ways for learners to add skills to this list:
The learner can use the search bar to find job titles or individual skills to add to their list. If they select a skill they will be prompted to validate it. If they select a job title, they will first be asked to refine the skills attached:
They refine the skills list by selecting the relevant ones:
They are then prompted to validate their skills by stating their current expertise, selecting the proof they have for this expertise, indicating whether they like the skill, and indicating whether they want to learn more about it:
Adding skills via CV
If learners click the Scan document button at the top of the page, they can upload a CV or resume to be scanned for skills:
When they upload a CV, skills will be extracted from it and the learner will be prompted to refine and validate them.
Removing skills
To remove a skill, a learner just needs to click the corresponding and select Remove skill:
Reporting
Learners can download a spreadsheet of their current skills status. It is generated in the xlsx format. To do this, they click Download current view (.xls):
From here they can either click XLS to create a new report, or they can use the Download button in the Report history section to access a previous report. The Download button only appears next to a report that has the status Ready.