Purpose

This article provides detailed information on new skill recommendations from internal sources within Eightfold.

Audience

Talent admins, HRBPs, Talent Leaders

Overview

By default, all new skill recommendations from various internal data sources are auto-added into Skills Design.

These internal sources are as follows:

• Employee skills
• Candidate skills
• Position skills
• Courses skills
• Role skills

Customization

You can customize whether the skill recommendations should be automatically added to the Skills Design or added after review. This helps you control the level of involvement they need regularly in the design process.

Handling new skills

• Skill taxonomy: only new skills discovered across the above sources that are present in Eightfold’s skill taxonomy are shown as recommendations. Any skill not present in Eightfold’s taxonomy needs to be imported as customer-specific skills.
• Weekly refresh: the New skills added by AI section is refreshed weekly.
  
• Language support: when you switch to a different language, new skills specific to that language are displayed.
  

Standard skill recommendations

The New skills added by AI section displays only the standard skill recommendations when employees possess equivalent skills. For example, if ‘SQL2025’ is auto-identified as a standard skill 'SQL', and an employee's skills include 'SQL2025', it automatically displays 'SQL' as a recommendation.

If a suggested skill from Eightfold is deleted, it reappears in New skills after a refresh if it still exists in the above sources.