Purpose

This article provides detailed information on the search suggestions for skills across TA and TM.

Audience

Talent admins, HRBPs, Talent leaders

Overview

The search suggestions help users maintain consistency by prompting them to use standard skills when adding skills to requisitions, search filters, and other areas across the platform. This article covers the functionality and benefits of skill addition suggestions and the setup process in Skills Design.

Skill addition suggestions

Within TA and TM, when skills are added to requisitions or search filters, users are constantly prompted to use standard skills to achieve consistency. This is applicable across the entire platform, including:

• Roles
• Positions
• Employee profiles
• Creation of skills-based projects in the project marketplace
• Creation of a new development plan
• Creation of a new upskilling template
• Research page skill search, and more

Users can enter any skill beyond the recommended list across all the above-mentioned flows.

Any newly added skill in roles, positions, courses, employee profiles or parsed from candidate profiles (if belonging to standard Eightfold skills) appears as a recommendation in the Skills Design, allowing the Skills Design taxonomy to be updated from the various systems. These recommendations are refreshed on a weekly basis.

If a new equivalent skill or a new skill is added/edited in the Skills Design, it appears within the TA and TM search suggestions in minutes.

The following sections display how searching for a skill works within various product pages.

Setup

Positions

Role Calibration

Employee profiles

Project Marketplace

Development Plan

When a user enters an equivalent skill, it automatically suggests standard skills across platforms. For example, if a user enters 'Need Management', it shows 'Management' in the type-ahead suggestions.

Here, ‘Need Management’ is set up as an equivalent skill to ‘Management’.