Skills Management

Create, edit, and manage skills across your organization

Admins manage the skill catalog for the tenant: create and edit skills, organize them with categories, handle verification and unverified skills (e.g. from CV extraction), and merge duplicates so the catalog stays clean and searchable.

Creating and Editing Skills

  1. Go to Admin → Skills (or Skill catalog).
  2. Create a skill — Click Add skill (or Create skill). Enter name, optional description, and assign a category if you use categories.
  3. Edit a skill — Open the skill from the list, change name, description, or category, then save.
  4. Archive a skill — Archive to hide it from new assessments and selectors while keeping it for historical data. Archived skills can be restored if needed.

Keep names consistent (e.g. "React" not "React.js" and "React JS") to reduce duplicates and improve search.

Skill Categories

Categories group skills (e.g. "Frontend", "Data", "Leadership"). Use them to:

  • Organize the catalog — Easier browsing in Admin and in self-assessment.
  • Filter and report — Filter skills by category in reports and People Finder.
  • Scope roadmaps — Align trainings and roadmaps to categories.

Create and edit categories under Admin → Skills → Categories (or in the same Skills area). Assign each skill to one category (or none) as needed.

Skill Verification

Verification means a designated person (e.g. manager, expert) has confirmed a member's level in a skill. In Skills Management you don't verify individuals; you control which skills support verification and how the catalog is used.

  • Verification enabled — For a skill, verification can be optional or required (depending on tenant settings). Members request verification; verifiers approve or adjust level.
  • Verified vs unverified — In reports and People Finder, you can filter or weight verified skills. Unverified skills from self-assessment or CV extraction are still visible but may be labeled as "unverified" or "suggested".

Unverified Skills from CV Extraction

When CV upload and AI skill extraction are enabled (see Onboarding & Import), the system may suggest skills that are not yet in the catalog. These appear as unverified or suggested skills.

  • Admin → Skills — Look for a section like "Suggested skills" or "Unverified skills" (from CV extraction).
  • Verify — Add the skill to the catalog with a name and category so it becomes a full skill.
  • Merge — If the suggestion matches an existing skill, merge it so the suggestion maps to the catalog skill and future CVs use the same skill.
  • Remove or ignore — Reject suggestions that are noise or duplicates.

Handling these regularly keeps the catalog clean and avoids duplicate or junk skills.

Merging Duplicate Skills

If you have similar skills (e.g. "React" and "React.js"), merge them into one:

  1. Go to Admin → Skills.
  2. Open the skill you want to keep (the target).
  3. Use Merge (or Merge with another skill). Select the source skill to merge from.
  4. Confirm. All references (assessments, role profiles, capabilities) are updated to the target skill. The source skill is archived or removed.

After merging, search and reports use a single skill; no data is lost.

Searching Skills

In Admin → Skills you can:

  • Search by name — Find skills quickly when the catalog is large.
  • Filter by category — See only skills in "Frontend" or "Data".
  • Filter by status — e.g. active vs archived, or unverified/suggested.

Use search and filters to review, merge, or bulk-edit skills.

Tip: Review suggested and unverified skills after each onboarding batch, and run a duplicate check (search similar names) every few months to keep the catalog consistent.