Skills: Create and edit a Skill profile

In this article, we'll explain what a Skill profile is and how to create/edit one. 

A skills profile is a way to group and organise skills, allowing you to assign them flexibly without being restricted to specific job titles. This approach enables a more dynamic and scalable way of managing skills across your organisation. For example, you might create a skills profile that includes:

• 8 core skills relevant to all employees
• 15 department-specific skills applicable to an entire team
• 10 job-specific skills tailored to a particular role
• 8 leadership skills for managers and aspiring leaders

This flexibility allows you to map skills efficiently without getting lost in the complexities of defining skills for every individual job title. However, if you prefer a more detailed, role-specific approach, that option is always available.

We'll cover how to:

• Create a Skill profile
• Edit a Skill profile

Create a skills profile

1. Browse to Learn admin
2. From the Skills menu, select Profiles:
3. Select Add profile:
4. Enter a name for your profile:
   
5. Select Add skill
6. Select the Skills you want to add
7. Select Add skill to confirm your selection:

Note: There is no limit on how many profiles you can create or on the number of skills that belong to each profile.

Edit a Skill profile

1. Browse to Learn admin
2. From the Skills menu, select Profiles:
3. Select the name of the Profile you wish to edit
4. Select Edit: 

Available options are:

• Edit the name
• Change the assigned groups
• Add or remove skills
• Delete a skill profile

Note: When you remove a Skill from a profile, delete a profile, remove a Group, or when a User leaves a Group, the associated Skills will also be removed from all User's Skills dashboard.

Discover more about Skills

Need quick answers? Check out the FAQ articles - they're packed with common questions and quick answers:

• Create and manage skills FAQ
• Tag Lessons with skills FAQ
• Map skills to people FAQ
• Skill levels FAQ

If you're ready to dive deeper into Skills, visit The Academy and check out the Skills Readiness Journey ebook to learn how to make Skills work for your organisation. Also in The Academy:

• Scaling Skills: From quick wins to future-ready workforce
• Skills: Basics, buy-in, and getting started
• Skills: playbooks to get you started

Don't have your Academy account yet? Contact your Customer Experience Manager or the Support Team to sign up today.