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.
Org Prioritized Skills
Org Prioritized Skills are skills your organization identifies as priorities for your role. An admin sets this priority when assigning a skill to a Role. Org Prioritized Skills are only visible if your organization has enabled organization prioritized skills.
Org Prioritized Skills can come from more than one source, and Degreed shows you where each one comes from:
- Role: The skill is prioritized for a Role assigned to you.
- Skill Standard: The skill is a Critical Skill required by a Skill Standard.
When a skill is prioritized, it displays in a dedicated Org Prioritized Skills section at the top of your Skills page, along with the following details:
- Context: Where the skill comes from, such as the Role name or Skill Standard name. If the skill comes from more than one source, Context lists them all.
- Org Target: The proficiency level your organization expects for the skill in that context, so you can compare it with your Self Rating.
You cannot remove an Org Prioritized Skill from your profile. If Degreed assigns you a new prioritized skill that you have not rated yet, a Start Skill Rating button displays on your Home page and Profile page.