Introduction

Depending on your platform settings, you may be asked to identify your skills on the basis of your job, and to carry out a self-evaluation on them. Take some time to select your skills and to self-evaluate them, so that your platform will then help you in filling your gaps and deepen your knowledge on the areas you are already familiar with. 

Once you have identified and self-evaluated your skills, your platform then will then populate the My skills channel with different types of content, depending on how the platform administrator has set up the platform:

• formal courses associated with the skills you have identified for yourself
• assets loaded by other users and associated to the skills you have identified

In addition, if enabled in your platform, you can take advantage of the Skills dashboard page for an overview of your skills: progress, available content, and feedback from your manager. Learn more on the Skills dashboard.

More information about identifying and self-evaluating your skills on the Go.Learn mobile app.

Identifying and self-evaluating your skills

If the My skills channel is active in your platform, upon logging in for the first time you will see a pop-up informing you that you can select your skills and perform a self-evaluation on them. You will see this pop-up again every time that you are required to set your skills.

Click Get started if you want to take some time for this activity, or Not now to postpone it. There is no time limitation for this activity, but we suggest you start your upskilling process as soon as possible.

After clicking Get started, the skills selection process will ask you to identify your job in the company, so that the platform can suggest the skills in line with your position. Start typing your job description, select one of the available options proposed by the autocomplete function or insert your custom text and press Next to proceed. 

Select now up to 10 skills among those suggested. Depending on the platform configuration, you may have the possibility to look for other skills manually. You will be able to select more skills later in the My skills section of your profile or in your Skills dashboard, up to 50 skills in total. Press Next and self-evaluate yourself on the skills you have selected. When done, click on Save to complete the process. 

Please note! When searching for skills, you need to enter at least three characters to initiate the search. For skills with names shorter than three characters (for example, "C#"), type a space after the skill name.

You can change the selection of your skills at any time by accessing the My profile area of your platform from your main menu and moving to the My skills section  or from your Skills dashboard.

Managing your skills

You can manage your skills from the My skills section of the My profile area or from your Skills dashboard. Here, we will illustrate how to manage them from your profile. Refer to the dedicated article of the knowledge base to learn how to manage your skills from your Skills dashboard.

Click on the pen icon in your main menu to enter your My profile page, then move to the My skills vertical tab. On the My skills page, you will view the job that you have previously selected, but you can change it by clicking on Change job, so that we can recommend some skills in line with your new position.

In the Your skills section, you will see a list of skills suggested to you by the platform’s artificial intelligence based on the job you selected. Click on one of the suggested skills to add it to your profile, then select your current level of competence, and confirm the action by clicking on Add.

If you want to add more skills, click on Add skills on the My skills page, then select one or more skills among those suggested. You may have the possibility to look for other skills manually, using the search box. Click on Next and self-evaluate yourself on the skills you have selected. When finished, click on Save to complete the process. 

On the page, you will see the list of skills that you selected, and the level you set during your self-evaluation. If you have received suggestions by your manager about updating your current or target level of competence, they will be displayed under the related skill. Refer to the following paragraphs to learn more about target levels.

Click on the ellipsis icon in a skill’s row to view the related options. Click on Update current level to select a different level for the skill. You can also do this by clicking on the current level next to the skill’s name.

Click on Set target level to select a target level for the skill. This is the level that you aim to reach by learning on the platform. Select a level higher than your current level, and click on Confirm. To update or remove your target, click on the corresponding options in the ellipsis menu. You can also update it by clicking on the target level next to the skill’s name. Once you have reached your target level, the skill target will be removed and the skill will be moved to the bottom of the list, where you can find your skills without a target level. 

To remove a skill, click on Remove from the ellipsis menu. Please note that if you remove a skill, you will no longer receive updates on the content related to that skill.

If enabled in your platform, you can click on View details from the ellipsis menu to open a page with the details related to the skill and check:

• the description of the skill, if available, by clicking on the clipboard icon next to the skill’s name
• your progress on the skill
• the latest updates on the skill (if any—e.g. new content, new manager suggestions)
• how much time you spent in courses associated with the skill in the last 12 months
• the courses and assets associated with the skill you completed over the last year
• the latest and most watched content associated with the skill.

On the skill detail page you can also accept or ignore your manager’s suggestions to update your current or target level on the skill. If you have suggestions, a bar will be displayed at the top of the skill detail page. You can accept or ignore the suggestions.

Click on the book icon in the skill’s row to view the courses and assets associated with that skill on the platform. You will be redirected to the page Available content for the selected skills. Here you can search for content using the search box or the filters.

Please note:

• You can set a maximum of 50 skills on your My skills or Skills dashboard page
• You can set a target level for up to 10 skills
• You cannot set a target level if you have already reached the maximum level of competence, as the target level must be higher than the current one.

The My skills channel

Once you have completed your self-evaluation, you will be automatically redirected to the main page of the My skills channel, already populated with content related to the skills you have selected. 

Please note: the channel can also be called in another way, depending on your Superadmin configuration.

Use the Filters panel to filter the displayed content according to one or more of your skills or to the content publication period. 

You can manage the content of the My skills channel as you do for any other channel. Find out more on how to manage channels and their content and on how to share content.

If the My skills channel does not currently include any content related to your skills, you will be redirected to the All channels page instead. Learn more on channels.