Skills Overview

What are Skills?

Skills encompass the knowledge, competencies, and abilities to perform an action, such as an operational task, with specific results, within a given amount of time, energy, or both.

How are They Useful?

At Degreed, we believe keeping skills current is the biggest talent challenge of our time. Increases in remote working, advances in technology, and the ongoing push toward more automation make upskilling and reskilling increasingly critical. Degreed gives you the ability to align your skills with your career aspirations.

When you select and rate your skills, Degreed recommends personalized, relevant content for your continued skill development. With Degreed, you can find skill-specific content, rate yourself, ask your manager or peers for a rating, and determine what you need to be successful in the role you hold today, while preparing for the role you'll hold tomorrow.

Degreed Skill Types

Focus Skills

Focus Skills are the skills within Degreed that you want to actively develop or improve. When you select Focus Skills on your Profile page, content recommendations specific to those skills display on your Home page. You can designate up to four Focus Skills on your profile.

Additional Skills

Additional Skills are the skills you've added to your profile that you have not designated as focus skills. These skills generate skill-based content recommendations on your Home page.

Endorsed Skills

Endorsed skills indicate the skill is preferred by your organization, relevant to the subject and topic of a Plan or Pathway, and that Skill descriptions are complete and accurate.

Rated Skills

Rated skills are skills that have been rated according to the following types of Skill Ratings available in Degreed:

• Skill Review (only available if your organization enabled it)
• Manager Rating
• Self Rating
• Peer Rating

Critical Skills

Critical Skills are assigned skills from Skill Standards that are prioritized as a focus skill in your organization. Critical Skills display on your Skills page. Critical Skills are only visible if your organization has enabled Skill Standards.