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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 Select Skills from the left sidebar navigation. The Skills page opens and shows your profile overview.

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Understanding the Skills Profile Layout

The Skills page is divided into three 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.

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Understanding the columns

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Reading grade indicators

Grades are displayed as a numeric value (1–5) alongside a visual bar indicator:

• Green bars indicate a grade of 3 or higher (meeting or approaching benchmark).
• Red bars indicate a grade of 1 or 2 (below benchmark).
• Grey bars indicate a benchmark grade.

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

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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.

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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 prioritising that skill. To flag a skill:

1. Navigate to Skills in the sidebar.
2. Select the career containing the skill you want to flag.
3. In the Flags column, select the flag icon next to the skill and choose the flag type (for example, Focus).

When you flag a skill, the flag indicator appears in the Flags column. Skills flagged as Focus also appear in your Highlights view.

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Adding Skills to Your Profile

You can add individual skills to your profile using the + Skills button in the top right of the By Career view. Select + Skills to see the available options:

• Search library — browse the SkillsDB skill library and add existing skills to your Additional Skills.
• Request skill — submit a request for a new skill to be added to the library. Your administrator will review the request.

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.

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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.

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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 Skills in the sidebar.
2. Select the career that contains the skill.
3. In the row for the relevant skill, select the actions menu (the three-dot or ellipsis icon on the right side of the row).
4. Select Manage Trainings.
5. In the training modal, enter the Training Date.
6. If required, enter text evidence in the provided field.
7. If required, attach supporting files using the attachment upload.
8. Select a delegated approver if applicable.
9. Select Save.

When you submit a training record, it enters an approval workflow. The training status will be one of the following:

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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 Skills in the sidebar.
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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Discovering Learning Resources (Upskilling)

The Upskilling view shows learning resources linked to your skills, with progress tracking for each resource. Use this view to find courses, videos, articles, and other content that can help you build proficiency. To switch to the Upskilling view:

1. Navigate to Skills in the sidebar.
2. Select the breadcrumb dropdown at the top and choose Upskilling.

The Upskilling view displays resources in a table with the following columns: Each resource row is expandable — select the expand arrow to see additional details about the resource.

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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 use the Filter button for more specific filtering, and the Display button 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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