Purpose

This article provides detailed information on the internationalization capabilities of Skills Design.

Audience

Talent admins, HRBPs, Talent leaders

Overview

Internationalization of skills involves translating standard skills and their equivalent skills into multiple languages. This article covers the languages supported, the benefits of adding new skills in other languages, and the limitations of multi-language skills matching.

Supported languages

Internationalization of skills includes the following 19 languages. The coverage of skills differs across languages and is not 100%.

• English
• German
• Portuguese
• Dutch
• Korean
• French
• Spanish
• Danish
• Polish
• Italian
• Turkish
• Hungarian
• Swedish
• Arabic
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Malay
• Hebrew
• Japanese

Best practices and benefits

• Improved extraction: adding new skills in other languages supports better extraction of skills from resumes and profiles, improving overall matching.
• Better insights: customers can gather better insights into the presence of skills in other languages.
• Parsing and inference: for customers who require parsing and inference in other languages, adding new skills in those languages is recommended.

Customers should add new skills in other languages if they are adding an English skill that is not part of the Eightfold taxonomy and their corresponding equivalencies.

TA and TM experience

• TM employee profiles: skills are not automatically changed to other languages in TM profiles when changing language settings.
• TA candidate profiles: skills extracted from TA candidate profiles and resumes are displayed in other languages.

Access and add skills in other languages

New skills and recommendations in other languages can be accessed by switching to those languages. The prevalences are specific to the languages and are not aggregated.

• Preventing duplicate skills: if a skill across languages is present in standard or equivalent form, the user is blocked to prevent the addition of duplicate skills across languages.
• Adding non-english skills in english: users can add other language skills through the UI without switching to non-English languages. This is not encouraged as it may affect suggestions but does not impact matching, inference, or parsing.

Skill suggestions in TM

When an employee changes the language in settings, the system automatically displays skill recommendations in other languages.