Admin defined specialized skills
Introduction
Admin Defined Specialized Skills is the centralized way to define and assign specialized skills in Eightfold. Admins with access to ingest files in the Admin Console collect specialized skills across teams and locations, consolidate them into a single CSV file, and ingest them into Eightfold. The skills then appear on each employee’s Skills Assessment page in the Career Hub.
This approach enforces a standardized, streamlined process across the organization and is well-suited to small and mid-sized organizations where a central admin team can effectively coordinate with departments to maintain a single source of truth for specialized skills.
Defining Specialized Skills
Admins with access to ingest files in the Admin Console can define specialized skills.
How to define specialized skills
Collect specialized skills across different teams.
Consolidate them into a single file.
Map these employee-specific skills to individuals using their employee IDs.
Upload the file as a CSV into Eightfold.
Once you ingest the file, these skills appear on each employee’s Skills Assessment page in the Career Hub.
Steps to Ingest Specialized Skills into Eightfold
To ingest specialized skills into Eightfold, follow these steps:
Go to Admin Console > Integration > File Ingestion.
Set Entity type to Employee, File format to CSV, and Operation to Update.
Upload the CSV file containing the Employee ID to Specialized skills mapping.
Ensure the file name starts with EMPLOYEE-MAIN- (e.g., EMPLOYEE-MAIN-Demo).
Ensure the sheet name is EMPLOYEE-MAIN.
Click Process.
The status in the file activity will change to Complete once the system finishes processing the file.
Specialized Skills in Career Hub
After assignment, specialized skills appear on the Skills Assessment page within the employee profile.
Visibility: Employees, managers, and HRBPs can view these skills, though you can customize visibility via permissions.
Assessment: Employees, managers, and peers can assess specialized skills. To know more about peer assessments, see Peer Skills Assessment.
After skills are ingested, you can also organize them into groups and restrict group visibility to specific employee populations. See the Grouping Specialized Skills section in the main Specialized Skills document for details.
FAQs
How are Specialized Skills flagged in Skills Design exports?
Because specialized skills are ingested into Eightfold through file ingestion (not maintained in Skills Design), they are not flagged in Skills Design exports. They can be exported from the profile_skill_assessment table in Data Hub under skill_type as 'specialised_skill'.
Where is this Specialized skill maintained? Is this in Skills Design? Who and how can this list be maintained?
Specialized skills are defined per employee via file ingestion. Admins with access to ingest files in the Admin Console can define specialized skills.
Read Configure Specialized Skills to know more.
What is the maximum granularity for mapping Specialized Skills?
The maximum granularity for mapping specialized skills is at an employee level. Different specialized skills can be assigned to individual employees.