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Overview

The Skills explore feature gives every SkillsDB user a view into the organization’s full skill catalog — not just the skills assigned to their own role. You can search for any skill by name, filter results by career, grade level, or flag type, and click through to a detailed profile for each skill. Skill detail pages show aggregate data drawn from across the organization: how many people are assigned to a skill, how proficiency grades are distributed by department and job role, what learning resources exist for the skill, and which colleagues hold it. This gives you a broader frame of reference when thinking about your own development — you can see where a skill sits in the organization, how it is graded on average, and what training is available to help you improve. The Skills explore feature is available to all SkillsDB users. No special permissions are required to search for skills or view skill detail pages.

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Finding Skills

Skills are discovered through the Search page — a unified search tool that covers people, training, skills, careers, and certifications. To navigate to skill search:

1. Select Search from the left sidebar.
2. In the filter bar beneath the search input, select Skills to narrow results to skills only.

To search for a skill:

1. Type the skill name (or a keyword) into the search input.
2. As you type, a suggestions dropdown appears grouped into categories such as Skill and Learning, showing matching skills and related training resources.
3. Select a suggestion to add it as a structured filter, or press Enter to run a broad text search.

Search results appear in a table below the input. Each row represents a skill that matched your search term or applied filters. An Export button appears in the top-right corner when results are available, allowing you to download results as an Excel file.

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Filtering Skill Results

After running a search, you can refine results using filters and sub-filters. Adding filters: Type a keyword into the search input and select a suggestion to add it as a filter tag. Each active filter appears as a tag below the search bar. Select the x on any tag to remove it, or select Clear to remove all filters at once. Sub-filters: Some filter tags display a sub-filter icon. Select it to access additional refinement options such as Document Search. Filter matching mode: When multiple filters are active, you can choose how they interact:

• Match all — A skill must satisfy every filter you have set (more restrictive)
• Match any — A skill needs to satisfy at least one filter (broader results)

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Understanding Search Results

When the Skills scope is selected, the results table shows the following for each skill: Skills are ranked by match score, with the most relevant results at the top.

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Exploring a Skill

Selecting any skill name in the results table opens the skill detail page. This page gives you a comprehensive profile of the skill across five tabs: Overview, Proficiency, Resource, Analytics, and Activity (the Activity tab is visible to administrators only). Use the dropdown in the breadcrumb bar to switch between tabs. A right sidebar displays Skill Details — including the average employee grade, manager grade, benchmarks, and training cost — alongside a Related section showing which careers and groups include this skill. Summary statistics At the top of every skill detail page, eight summary statistics give you an at-a-glance view of the skill’s footprint in the organization: Overview tab The Overview tab is the default view and provides a summary of the skill’s profile across the organization. The tab includes:

• A grade comparison chart showing the average employee grade, average manager grade, and benchmark grade side by side
• A preview of the top five people with this skill, showing their self-assessed and manager-assessed grades
• A snapshot of Analytics charts (by Department and by Job Role)
• View All — select to jump to the full Proficiency tab
• Full Report — select to jump to the Analytics tab

Proficiency tab The Proficiency tab shows a complete table of every person who has this skill assigned, along with their grades. Use this tab to understand how colleagues at different grades approach this skill, or to identify colleagues who might be a resource for development conversations. Resource tab The Resource tab displays a Learning Resources section listing all learning resources associated with this skill in the organization’s training library. Each resource displays its title, format, and other details. If no resources have been linked to this skill yet, the tab shows an empty state: “No resources available for this skill yet.” Analytics tab The Analytics tab displays five charts that break down the skill’s proficiency distribution across different organizational dimensions: Use the Analytics tab to understand how this skill is developed across your organization — for example, whether certain departments or regions tend to have higher or lower proficiency in this area. Activity tab The Activity tab is visible to administrators only. It shows a chronological log of changes made to this skill, including baseline snapshots and edits. Each entry displays a description, who made the change, and when it occurred. Select Show content on any entry to view its details.

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