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How to add a Skill to your Profile

Add your top Skills to your Profile and request endorsements from your senior colleagues.

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Written by Aaron-Spencer
Updated over a week ago

Adding a Skill to your Profile helps you to identify your strengths and weaknesses. Knowing the Skills you hold, and the level you have, will help tailor your learning experience. Here's how:

1. Select your Profile picture, and click My Profile.

2. Select the Skills tab, then click Add Skill, to open the pop up.

3. Select your desired Skill from the drop-down list, or choose some recommendations.

4. Set your proficiency level rating for that Skill. The definitions underneath will help you to understand what's required for the given levels: 1 - 5.

5. Select Add Self Assessment.

5. Once your Skill's added, click the 3-dot menu (more options) to:

  • Request Endorsement - from your Manager/Team Lead, who will choose what level they believe you have, based on your learning, engagement, Assessment results, etc. Remember, this will change your Skill level to give you a new proficiency level rating average. For example:

    • You rate your Skill as Level 2

    • Endorser rates it as Level 4

    • Your latest Level rating is now Level 3

Note✨: Managers and Admins can endorse a team member's existing Skill, independently, without the need to be sent a request. However, sending a request will ensure the Skills you want to focus on, are reviewed often by the right people.

Managers and Admins also have the ability to add Skills to their selected Users' Skills lists, without the need for an Endorsement Request. Find out how to make this game-changing update here: How to update User's Skills without an Endorsement Request.

  • Update Rating - to reflect where you feel your level is at, based on learning you've completed, or perhaps feedback from Assessments.

  • Remove - if you have not used this Skill at all, are yet to start any new learning related to it, and/or it is no longer relevant to your career/personal goals, you may wish to remove it.

Watch our video tutorial to see these steps in action...

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