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Working with skills forms the basis of various functionalities in Learned. Because every organisation has a different view on developing and assessing skills, we offer some options for setting up your own skill set. In this article we look at the skill categories.
Where are skill categories shown in Learned?
At Learned, we divide skills into 4 categories as standard: Interspersonal, Professional, IT, Languages. When you then start creating role profiles, you will see that the same skill categories are available to place skills in. By means of skill categories you can therefore logically divide the role profiles and in this way communicate to your employees what kinds of skills you expect from them. The skill categories appear in the following places in the Learned platform:
The role profiles
The review module: when giving feedback on skills
The career module
Various reports: for example the Admin Skill Report
Example of a skill with category in the Learned Review Module
The names and number of skill categories
On the Skills page you have the 'Edit categories' button in the top right of the screen. A popup will then open with which you can manage the skill categories for your company account. This popup works as follows:
Order: With the left buttons you can adjust the order of the categories by drag&drop. The order you set here is immediately the order in which the skill categories are visible in the roles and in the review forms when giving feedback.
Default label: Here you see the default skill category from Learned. All Learned skills are already linked to these standard categories. So you don't have to do anything about this, but know that when you add new skills to such a category yourself, the Learned skills are also available.
Custom label: Here you can change the names of our standard categories. It is entirely up to you to give your own twist to the names of the skill categories. The custom labels are the final names that are visible in the system. Again, all Learned skills are classified according to our categories. So check carefully when importing Learned skills to your own skill set which skill category you want to use.
+ skill category: Finally, it is possible to add your own categories, for example for 'Core values'. It is recommended to think about this in advance so that you can immediately place all skills that you add to the system in the right category.
Tip: You actually link a skill to a skill category when you create skills in your own skill set.