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Security Levels and Groups Explained

This shows the access rights and security level for each user type in SkillsDB

This article shows the access rights/security level for each user type.

Self-Score (Employees)

  • The employee level offers a simple and easy-to-use interface. Employees can enter their own skills and Attributes and view their skill tracker chart.
  • View and Track My Skills
  • Add and Update My Certifications
  • Search and Register for Training
  • Maintain My Profile
  • Upload Relevant Files 

Find An Expert

  • Users with Find An Expert security level are employees that can search for other employees. They can’t manage or update anybody else’s profile though.
  • Search for Other Employees by Skills and Certifications

Dashboarding

  • Users with Dashboarding security level are employees that are assigned to keep track of what's going on with your SkillsDB instance in terms of Reporting by using our Dashboards.

Managers

  • Managers gain access to reporting tools. It allows them to manage employees assigned to them and run analytics on those employees.
  • Manage Employees
  • Track Employee’s Skills, Certifications, and Training.
  • Score Employee’s Skills for a Comparative Analysis
  • View Skills Matrix of Employee’s
  • Audit Employee’s Skills to Analyze Your Team’s Competency
  • Search Employee’s finding someone with a Certain Skill Set
  • Run a Skill Gap Analysis on My Employee’s
  • View my Employee’s Signed Up for Training
  • Search my Employees for Expiring Certifications
  • Track Employee Goals for Career Development

Executives

  • Executives have all the abilities of a Manager extended to all employees.
  • Search All Employees
  • Run Reports on All Employees
  • Assign Employees to Managers
  • Export Employee Data

Site Administrator
This is a specialized role to extend the functionality of the manager role. This comes in handy when the department concept is used. For example, the engineering team can have more than 100 people with five managers. Managers can only manage or view their direct reports, whereas the Site Administrator has access to all the people belonging to the department.
  • Site Administrators have pretty much all the same access as the Managers
  • Site Administrators can create users except for the role of the Admin

Admin

  • Administrators have complete control over your system. They can track and manage everybody in the system, assign roles to users, add jobs and training, and manage company-wide information.
  • Setup Skills and Certifications
  • Setup and Manage People
  • Setup and Manage Jobs and Job Categories
  • Create Learning Plans
  • Manage Company Info