Purpose

This article explains how skill groups work within roles.

Audience

Talent leaders, Talent admins, HRBPs

Overview

Eightfold provides flexible support for organizing skills into two levels within roles with Skills Design. This structure includes Level 0 and Level 1:

• Level 0: Skill categories
• Level 1: Skill sub-categories

You can map or add display names for these levels as per your requirements.

Skill groups

After defining the taxonomy in Skills Design, you can add skills using this structure. On the role calibration page, select skills with their corresponding categories and groups. The UI will show these groupings, allowing you to organize skills as needed.

Example of a skill addition:

The Skill section is displayed below:

Skills taxonomy

You can also use Skills Design to manage the skills taxonomy, replacing the previous method of defining skills in the skills_taxonomy_config. This feature is currently in Early Access (EA). You can enable it by activating the skills_engine_taxonomy_gate.

Configure group mapping

To map any two levels from the existing skills taxonomy to Skills Design, you can update the skill_engine_level_to_taxonomy_group_name_mapping field in the skills_taxonomy_config.

For example:

{
  "skill_engine_level_to_taxonomy_group_name_mapping": {
    "level_0": "skill_group",
    "level_1": "skill_sub_group"
  }
}

Migration from skills_taxonomy_config

For existing customers using the skills_taxonomy_config, the migration is straightforward. Here's an example of existing data:

{
  "skills_dict": {
    "team_creation_and_evolution": {
      "description": "Skill Description",
      "skill": "Team Creation and Evolution",
      "groups_list": [
        {
          "skill_group_normalized": "organizational_leadership",
          "skill_group": "Organizational Leadership",
          "skill_category": "impact"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "skill_groups_dict": {
    "organizational_leadership": {
      "skill_group": "Organizational Leadership"
    }
  },
  "skill_category_dict": {
    "impact": {
      "skill_category": "Impact"
    }
  }
}

To migrate the skills_taxonomy_config data, follow these steps:

1. Export data: Create a CSV file from the skills_taxonomy_config data. Here’s how the data might look in the CSV:
   

   Skills	Description	Grouping	Language
   Team Creation and Evolution	Skill Description	Impact: Organizational Leadership	en

2. Import Data:

   1. Go to Skills Design and click Import.
   2. Upload the CSV file to import the skills into Skills Design.