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# Your Skills Profile
> Understand and navigate your Skills Profile — view career skills, grades, highlights, training records, and learning resources all in one place.
**Quick Summary:** Your Skills Profile is your personal hub for tracking skill proficiency across your assigned careers, logging training, identifying focus areas, and discovering learning resources.
# 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:
| View | Purpose |
| -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **By Career** | Your current skills profile — careers, highlights, and additional skills |
| **Upskilling** | Learning resources linked to your skills, with progress tracking |
| **Past Assignments** | Careers you were previously assigned to (read-only) |
The **By Career** view (shown by default) shows your current career assignments along with two summary entries:
| Entry | What it shows |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Highlights** | Skills you or your manager have flagged for development |
| **Additional Skills** | Individual skills added outside of any career assignment |
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.
**Note:** Career group sections are collapsed or expanded by selecting the section header row.
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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
| Column | Description |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Skill** | The skill name. A short description may appear below the name if one has been added. |
| **Labels** | Any labels applied to this skill (used for categorisation). |
| **My Grade** | Your self-assessed proficiency grade on a 1–5 scale. |
| **Manager** | Your manager's assessed grade on a 1–5 scale. |
| **Benchmark** | The expected proficiency level for this skill in your role. |
| **Resources** | The number of learning resources linked to this skill. |
| **Flags** | Any flags applied to this skill (Focus, Expert, Mentor, Interest, or custom flags). |
**Note:** The My Grade, Manager, and Benchmark columns only appear when proficiency grading is enabled for your career. You can show or hide columns using the **Display** button in the top right of the career detail view. Your administrator controls grading settings per career.
#### 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.
#### 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.
**Tip:** Use the Highlights view as a curated list of the skills you are actively working to improve. It is useful when preparing for assessments or conversations with your manager.
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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.
**Note:** Administrators see an additional **Add skill** option that creates a new skill directly in the library. Standard users and managers see **Request skill** instead.
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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 **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:
| Status | Meaning |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Pending** | The training record has been submitted and is awaiting review. |
| **Approved** | An approver has confirmed the training. |
| **Rejected** | The training record was not approved. |
| **Expiring Soon** | The approved training is approaching its expiration date. |
| **Expired** | The training approval has passed its expiration date. |
**Important:** Whether text evidence or attachment evidence is required depends on how your administrator has configured the skill within your career. If required fields are left empty, you cannot submit the record.
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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:
| Column | Description |
| ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Resource** | The learning resource name and description |
| **Label** | Any labels applied to the resource |
| **Type** | The resource type or category (such as Course, Video, or Article) |
| **Progress** | Your current progress status (for example, Not Started, In Progress) |
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:
| Quick filter | What it shows |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **All** | Every skill in the career |
| **Below benchmark** | Skills where your grade is below the expected benchmark |
| **Mismatch** | Skills where there is a significant difference between your grade and your manager's grade |
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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# Common Questions
Proficiency grading must be enabled for each career by your administrator. If the Employee, Manager, and Benchmark columns are not visible when viewing a career's skills, grading has not been turned on for that career. Contact your administrator if you expect to see grades.
The Trained column only appears for careers where training date tracking has been enabled by your administrator. If the column is missing, the career has not been configured for training tracking.
Currently, removing a flag must be done by your manager or an administrator. You can apply flags yourself, but you cannot remove them. Contact your manager if you need a flag removed.
Career skills are part of a structured career (job role) and come with a benchmark grade indicating the expected proficiency level. Additional skills are individual skills added to your profile outside of any career, and do not have a career-level benchmark attached to them.
Training approvals can be configured with an expiration period. When an approved training record is within its expiration window, the badge changes to **Expiring Soon** (yellow). After the expiration date passes, it shows **Expired** (red). You will need to log a new training record to refresh the approval.
Current and past careers are in separate views. Use the breadcrumb dropdown to switch between **By Career** (current) and **Past Assignments** (previous). To compare, open each career individually from its respective view.
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# Related Articles
Learn how to complete a self-assessment to update your Employee grades
Add learning resources to your personal learning plan
Track and manage your professional certifications
Understand what skill flags (Focus, Expert, Mentor, Interest) mean and how they work
How training approval expiration works and what to do when training expires
Understand the training submission and approval workflow
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# Need Help?
If you run into any issues or have questions, reach out to your organization's SkillsDB administrator or contact [SkillsDB Support](https://www.skillsdb.com/support).