Skills Concepts

When you create a skill, you must define its type and assign it a level list. Examples of types include Languages, Travel Preferences, or Technical. However, you can create custom types as needed. Once created, you can assign these skills to employees in the Employee Skills workspace, where for each employee you can specify the level of proficiency each employee has for that skill.

After entering skill information, you can incorporate it into your planning budget. This enables you to allocate task during detailed planning only to employees who possesses specific skills at the required level. This is done in the Skill Requirements workspace.

In the Skills card, you can organize skills into a hierarchical structure to represent general knowledge or specialized expertise. Each skill can be placed within a hierarchy by specifying a main skill. If the main skill part of an existing hierarchy, the new skill will be integrated accordingly. If, for instance, the main skill has a parent skill, the hierarchy adjusts to make that parent skill the top-level skill for the new skill.

Different skills within a hierarchy can utilize distinct level list. With this flexibility, you can use one level list for specialized skills and another for general skills. If you use a graded level list, Maconomy can automatically infer a level for skills at a higher hierarchy level, provided that they share the same level list.

You can delete a skill as long as it is not associated with an employee or a skill requirement. If a skill with subskills is deleted, Maconomy will adjust the skill hierarchy. The subskills of the deleted skill will be moved up in the hierarchy. Immediate subskills will become subskills of the deleted skill's parent. If there is no parent skill, each subskill becomes a top-level skill in its hierarchy. To change the status of a subskill, modify the Main Skill field in the Skills card of this workspace.