Overview

Your Skills Profile gives you a complete picture of the skills SkillsDB tracks for you. It organizes your skills by the careers you have been assigned to, and surfaces key information like your self-assessed grades, manager grades, expected benchmarks, and training history. The Skills Profile is the primary place where you interact with your own skill data day-to-day. From here you can see how your proficiency compares to what your role requires, mark skills you want to focus on, log training records, and browse learning resources linked to your skills. All employees can access their own Skills Profile. Managers and administrators can also view team members’ profiles through the Team view, but this article covers what you can see and do on your own profile.

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Navigating to Your Skills Profile

To open your Skills Profile, navigate to Profile > Skills in the left sidebar. The Skills page opens and shows your profile overview. Profile > Skills is also the page SkillsDB opens after you sign in.

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Understanding the Skills Profile Layout

The Skills page has two views you can switch between using the breadcrumb dropdown at the top of the page: The By Career view (shown by default) shows your current career assignments along with two summary entries: Your careers are organized under collapsible group headers (for example, “Role”). Each career row shows the career name, a labels column, and the number of skills it contains.

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Viewing skills for a career

Selecting a career row opens the career detail view, which lists every skill in that career grouped by section.

Understanding the columns

Reading grade indicators

Grades are displayed as a numeric value alongside a visual bar indicator. The color of your grade depends on how it compares with the benchmark for that skill:

• Green bars indicate a grade at or above the benchmark, or a grade on a skill that has no benchmark.
• Red bars indicate a grade below the benchmark.

If no grade has been recorded yet, the cell is blank.

Toggling skill sections

Skills within a career are grouped into sections (for example, “Core Skills” or “Technical Skills”). Select a section header to collapse or expand that section. If a section has a minimum number of required skills, the section header states what the section asks for next to its name. The wording depends on how the minimum is set up:

• minimum N of M required — the section counts as trained once any N of its M skills are trained, and no single skill is required on its own (for example, minimum 3 of 5 required).
• N required, plus any K of the other J — some skills are required individually, and you also need any K of the remaining skills to reach the minimum.
• N of M required — the skills required individually already cover the section’s minimum.
• all N required — every skill in the section must be trained.

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Flagging a Skill

Flagging a skill (for example, marking it as Focus) adds it to your Highlights view and signals to your manager that you are prioritizing that skill. To flag a skill:

1. Navigate to Profile > Skills.
2. Select the career containing the skill you want to flag.
3. In the Flags column, select the flag button next to the skill and choose a flag from the menu.

The menu lists your company’s enabled flags in the order your administrator set. You can set Focus, Interest, and any custom flags on yourself. Only administrators can set the Expert and Mentor flags on themselves. When you flag a skill, the flag appears in the Flags column and the skill appears in your Highlights view. Any flag — not only Focus — adds the skill to Highlights.

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Adding Skills to Your Profile

You can add individual skills to your profile from the Actions menu in the top right of the By Career view. You can also press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) and search for the action by name. Open the Actions menu to see the available options:

• Skill under Search to Add — opens the SkillsDB skill library so you can add existing skills to your Additional Skills (⌘K search: “Search skill library”).
• Skill under Request — submit a request for a new skill to be added to the library in the Request skill dialog. Your administrator will review the request (⌘K search: “Request skill”).

Skills you add from the library appear in your Additional Skills entry. Requested skills are sent to your administrator for approval before they become available.

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Viewing Highlights and Additional Skills

In addition to viewing skills by career, two summary entries are available from the main By Career view.

Highlights

Selecting Highlights shows only the skills you or your manager have flagged (for example, Focus flags). Use this view to concentrate your development activity on the skills that matter most right now. Flagged skills also appear in the Highlights section at the top of any career detail view.

Additional Skills

Selecting Additional Skills shows individual skills that have been added to your profile outside of a formal career assignment. These may be skills you have added yourself or skills added by your manager. Additional skills display the same grade columns as career skills.

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Logging a Training Record

If your career has training tracking enabled, you can log a training record directly from your Skills Profile. To log a training record for a skill:

1. Navigate to Profile > Skills.
2. Select the career that contains the skill.
3. In the row for the relevant skill, hover over the Training Date cell and select Add. If the skill already has a training record, select the date or status shown instead.
4. In the training dialog, enter the Training Date.
5. Choose the person who will approve the training in Select Trainer.
6. If required, enter a Comment.
7. If required, attach supporting files.
8. Select Submit.

The Training Date and the trainer are always required. Whether a comment or an attachment is required depends on how your administrator has configured the skill within your career. When you submit a training record, it enters an approval workflow and the Training Status column shows its progress:

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Viewing Your Past Assignments

Your previous career assignments are preserved in the Past Assignments view. Past assignments show your historical grades and training records for the skills in that career. To view your past assignments:

1. Navigate to Profile > Skills.
2. Select the breadcrumb dropdown at the top and choose Past Assignments.
3. Select the previous career you want to view.

Past assignment views are read-only. You cannot log training records or modify grades for previous careers.

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Finding Learning Resources

The Resources column in a career’s skill list shows how many learning resources are linked to each skill. Learning resources are surfaced in these places:

• Your assessment scorecard includes an upskilling list of the learning resources linked to the skills in that assessment, with your progress on each. Open it by selecting Scorecard next to a completed assessment in Profile > Assessments.
• To add a resource to your personal plan, see Building a Learning Plan.

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Filtering and Sorting Your Skills

On the main By Career view, select Filter to filter the careers displayed using the filter bar above the table. When viewing a career’s skills in the career detail view, quick filter chips are available at the top: You can also add filters for more specific filtering, and use the Display menu to show or hide columns. To sort the skills table, select any sortable column header (for example, Skill). Selecting the same header again reverses the sort direction.

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