Purpose

This article provides detailed information on the functionality and benefits of skills grouping within Eightfold.

Audience

Talent admins, HRBPs, Talent Leaders

Overview

Skills grouping is a feature that organizes skills into categories and sub-categories, making it easier for users to manage and visualize skills data. This article covers the functionality of skills grouping, how it is set up, and the benefits it offers.

How does it work?

Grouping is automatically enabled for all customers using Eightfold’s standard skills. Skills grouping consists of three levels:

• Category: for example, Information Technology, Finance, Human Resources
• Sub-Category: for example, Information Technology > Blockchain, Cybersecurity
• Skill: for example, Hyperledger, Smart Contracts

All Eightfold skills come with their grouping (category, sub-category). One skill is bucketed under one category and sub-category without any duplicates. Customers can create their categories and sub-categories and assign them to their imported skills or existing Eightfold standard skills. One standard skill can be in multiple categories/sub-categories. Customer-imported skills are not auto-categorized into existing categories - the category of a custom skill must be specified in the import template.

Roles

• You can restrict the skills in roles to be only selected from categories/sub-categories.
• Once enabled, you can search for any category or sub-category in roles to add new skills.
• Under a given category, you can search for skills belonging to mapped sub-categories to manually add them.
• Under a given sub-category, the user can see and add skills specific to that sub-category using Add Skill.

Employee assessments

Skills categories and sub-categories set up in roles are also displayed in skill assessments.

Benefits

• Custom groups: enables customers to easily manage and visualize skills design.
• Role design: custom grouping also enables customers to manage and visualize skills in role design.
• Rich analytics: customers can download skills set up in Skills Design and obtain analytics split by category and sub-category. Currently, analytics dashboards and Data Hub do not provide filters and analytics by category or sub-category.

Eightfold uses large language models (LLMs) along with human annotation methods to aggregate the entire taxonomy into smaller subsets of categories and sub-categories within which skills have close relationships.