For: Employees, managers, and HRBPs who use skill assessment in Career Hub. Admins can change which actions each persona sees.

Summary

After a skill assessment, you can go straight from your skill gaps to courses, projects, and development plans for those skills, from the same page.

What is Ways to improve your skills?

Ways to improve your skills is a widget on the Assessment page of a Career Hub profile. It collects the skills that are identified as opportunities or skills. It then shows matching courses, projects, or development plans, and links you to them with those skills already applied.

Why it matters

• You don't need to remember your skill gaps and search for each one in a marketplace.
• A development plan you create from the widget starts with your gap skills already added, so you don't retype them.
• Managers can turn a direct report's assessed gaps into a development plan from the report's Assessment page.

How it works

1. Open the Assessment page

Open a Career Hub profile and go to the Assessment page. Your account may use a different tab name, such as Skills and Performance. The Ways to improve your skills widget is at the top of the sidebar on the right.

Under the assessment results, the message Some skills need your attention appears when you have skills to work on. The message reminds you that you can improve those skills with projects, courses, and development plans.

2. Review the skills the widget uses

The line under the title shows how many skills the widget uses, for example "Based on 2 skills". These are the skills in the Opportunity and Skilled groups for your role skills. Hover over the count to see the skill names. If you have no skills in those groups, the line says "Based on required skills" and the widget uses all the role, specialized, and manager-added skills on your Assessment page.

3. Browse the suggestions

For an explore action, the widget shows cards for courses, projects, or development plans that match the skills. Use the arrows to scroll through the cards. Select a card to open it, or select the bookmark icon to save it.

4. Act on the skills

The main button shows the first explore action your admin set up, with the number of matching results, for example Explore courses 541. Select it to open that marketplace with the Skills filter already set to your skills. This saves you from searching for each skill yourself.

Select the arrow on the main button to choose another action. The dropdown can include the following options:

• Explore courses: Opens the course marketplace filtered by your skills, so you can find courses for those skills.
• Explore projects: Opens the project marketplace filtered by your skills, so you can practice the skills on real work.
• Explore development plans: Opens the development plan marketplace filtered by your skills, so you can start an existing plan.

Select Create development plan to open the skill-based plan form with your skills already added. You then add a title and other plan details, and continue as usual. When a manager selects this button on a direct report's profile, the plan is for that employee.

Which actions you see by default depends on your role and your access. By default, employees see all four actions, and managers and HRBPs see Create development plan. Admins can configure the recommendation type shown in the widget and the primary and secondary actions for each role.

5. Choose your own skills (optional)

Select the pencil icon next to the skill count to open Select skills to develop. Use this window when you want to focus on different skills than the widget picked.

• Selected skills lists the skills the actions will use. It starts with the skills from the widget. Select the x on a skill to remove it, or select Unselect all to clear the list.
• Use the search box to find a skill by name.
• The skills are grouped into Opportunity, Skilled, Strength, and Not Categorized. Select + on a skill to add it, or Add all to add a whole group.
• A group with more than 5 skills shows the first 5, with See more to show the rest.
• When every skill in a group is selected, the group shows All your skills are added.
• Select an action at the bottom of the window to use the selected skills. The action button is unavailable until at least 1 skill is selected. Select Cancel to close the window without acting.

FAQs

Why don't I see the widget? The widget appears only when you have role skills on your Assessment page

Can I set different widgets and explore actions for employees, managers and HRBPs? Yes, the widgets and explore actions are configurable for each role

Can I set a different explore action as the primary button? Yes, the sequence of explore actions are configurable

Why don't I see one of the explore actions? An explore action appears only if you can access that marketplace and the marketplace has a Skills filter.

Which view are the skill groups based on? The groups follow the assessment view you have selected on the page.