Focus Skills Overview
What are Focus Skills?
Focus Skills are the skills within Degreed that you want to actively develop or improve. When you select Focus Skills, content recommendations specific to those skills display on your Home page.
You can add up to four Focus Skills on your profile.
How are They Useful?
Focus Skills differentiate the skills you are actively developing, from the skills you want to learn about more.
Content recommendations specific to your selected Focus Skills display on your Home page.
In some companies, your manager can use your Focus Skills to understand your skill priorities, and aid you in developing them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do I not see content recommendations in my Discover Feed on the Home page?
If there is not at least four content items that are tagged with the Focus Skill to recommend, this section is hidden for that skill. The Home page also does not recommend the same items repeatedly. For a content item associated with a Focus Skill to display here, that item must not have been recommended in another section in the last seven days.
Also, when a Focus Skill is changed, it takes 24 hours for the Discover feed to refresh and show available recommendations for that skill.