Skills Management Overview

Clicking the Skills and Certifications tab displays the Skills and Certifications home page.

In the View section, select an appropriate list view from the drop-down list to go directly to that list page, or click Create New View to define your own custom list view. List views let you display a list of records that match specific criteria.
In the Recent section, select an item from the drop-down list to display a brief list of the top records matching that criteria. The choices are listed in the table.
From the list, you can click any skill or certification name to go directly to its detail.
Click New to create a new record type as shown below.

Record Type Name	Description
Category	A level in a hierarchy. Skills and certifications can belong to a category.
Certification	A document relating to a status or a level of achievement.
Skill	An ability, proficiency, or expertise in a subject area.

Tip:

Use category, certification, and skill record types to create a skills hierarchy.

Recent Choice		Description
Recently Viewed		The last 10 or 25 records you viewed, with the most recently viewed item listed first. This list is derived from your recent items and includes records owned by you and other users.
Recently Created		The last 10 or 25 records you created, with the most recently created item listed first. This list only includes records owned by you.
Recently Modified		The last 10 or 25 records you updated, with the most recently updated item listed first. This list only includes records owned by you.

Skills, Certifications, and Categories

You can create a library of skills and certifications relating to the professional services you offer. PSA can be used to manage skills development for individual resources and the business overall. Resources can rate themselves against skills and identify which certifications they have. Managers and operations teams can set thresholds for key skills and track open requests against them. Operations and administrator users can set up and maintain skill, certification, and category record types on the Skills and Certifications page.

Skills Hierarchies

You can use Skill, Certification, and Category record types to create a skills hierarchy. Use parent and child relationships as appropriate to create the levels you need in your hierarchy. We support 10 levels in a skills hierarchy. Once you have created a skills hierarchy, you can organize and group skills and certifications by functional or product areas. Resource users can rate themselves against each skill, certification, or category.

Notes:

A top-level or root record in the skills hierarchy must always be a category for it to have child records beneath it.

A category record cannot be changed to a skill or certification record.

When a skill record is not a category, you cannot add children to it.

For more information, see Creating Categories, Skills, and Certifications.

Skill Sets

Skill sets enable you to:

Group skills and certifications. You can create skill sets containing skills and certifications that relate to a particular product, or create skill sets that relate to a particular functional role on a project. For example, you could create a skill set for Migration and add individual skills relating to migration activities, such as data cleansing, to it.
Filter resources based on the skills in one or more sets, when creating resource requests.

To use skill sets, you must assign the PSA - Manage Skills permission set to your users.

For more information on skill sets, see Creating Skill Sets.

Skill and Certification Zones

Zones indicate the relevant subset of a library for resources in a RPG Abbreviation of region, practice, group.. This way, resources and managers for a given area only view and rate the list of skills, categories or certifications relevant to their RPG.

The Skills/Certifications Zones tab provides a mechanism to associate existing skills, categories and certifications to regions, practices and groups. To associate a particular record to an RPG, see Adding a Skill or Certification Zone.

Note: Note

Your administrator may have configured PSA to make all skills and certifications available for rating entry in the Skills Matrix for all resources regardless of whether some have an appropriate skill zone set.

Skill Ratings

A skill or certification rating is the skill level or ability a resource has on a single skill or certification. Resources can rate themselves or someone else against a skill, category, or certification. For more information, see Managing Skills, Certifications, and Experience for Resources.

As a Resource Manager, you can search for resources by a skill or set of skills. For example, French. You can filter resources by a rating you want them to have in a skill, for example Proficient. This enables you to assign resources who are comfortable with the skills you need on a particular assignment. For more information, see Assigning Multiple Resources to Projects.

Skills Matrix

As an Operations or Admin user, you can edit existing skills and certifications and view an overview of skills and certifications for a given resource by using the Skills Matrix tab and related pages. For more information, see Using the Skills Matrix.

Skill Thresholds

You can set and configure thresholds for key skills or all skills in your organization. These thresholds set warnings based on a minimum number of resources with specific skills or certifications, average ratings, or other elements. See Skills Settings.

Skills Capacity

The Skills Capacity page displays the number of resources, filtered by RPG Abbreviation of region, practice, group., with a type of Skill/Certification, along with the High Value rating, Average Value Rating, and number of open resource requests asking for that skill or certification. See Using Skills Capacity.

Skill Types

You can set the skill type from a list of types when you create a skill or certification, for example, if you want to group skills capacity reports. See Type.