Core Competencies Tab and Job Competencies Tabs

All employees in an organization may be evaluated based on the same competencies, or competencies may differ by role, department, and so on.

An employee is evaluated based on how well he or she demonstrates these competencies during the evaluation period.

Deltek Talent Management distinguishes between two types of competencies and displays them on separate tabs in the employee appraisal.

Core Competencies: These are general abilities that everyone in an organization is expected to have and on which they are rated.
Job Competencies: These are abilities that are relevant to a specific job title or role.
Your organization can add its own competency categories, which will be treated in the same way as Core Competencies. Each category added will have its own tab.

Different competencies and goals may have different weights so that, for example, Decision Making is weighted more heavily than Teamwork in an employee’s Overall Rating.

Sections

The Core Competency and Job Competency tabs have the following parts.

Section	Description
Core Competencies	This section displays the name and description of each competency on which the employee is being appraised.
Summary Notes	If your organization enabled the Appraisal Category Summary Notes feature, a Summary Notes section displays beneath the Category name. Click the Add Journal Entry button to add or edit notes that apply to all competencies in this category.
General Appraisal Notes	Use the General Appraisal Notes area to view and enter general comments about the competency above.

Actions

The actions available from the Actions menu and buttons on the Core Competency and Job Competency tabs perform the following functions.

Button/Icon/	Action	Description
	Add to Development Plan	Click this option to add the competency to a Development Plan. Define options for the plan, such as the Plan Name and Start Date and click Save when finished.
	Collapse All Notes/Expand All Notes	Click this button to display and hide the General Appraisal and Summary Notes.
	Manage Competencies	Click this button to display the Manage Competencies dialog. Add available competencies from the list, and manage weights from this dialog. Click Submit when done. Depending on permissions and how the appraisal's workflow is configured to allow additions to this category, the Manage Competencies button may not be available.
	Add Journal Entry	Click this option or button to add a comment to the General Appraisal Notes. Enter a subject line and a comment, and select the people who can see the comment: All: The entry can be viewed by administrators, managers, appraisers, and the employee. Employee: The entry can be viewed by administrators and the employee. Managers: The entry can be viewed by administrators and managers only. Other Raters: The entry can be viewed by administrators, managers, and other raters. Private: The administrator and the person entering the note are the only ones who can view a private entry.
	Organizational Score Trends	Click this option to display a bar chart that shows how your score on this competency compares to the scores of other employees: With the same job title In the same job family Across the organization as a whole
$T:\HRsmart Icons\Activities.gif$	My Historical Scores	This option displays when the employee has a past appraisal that includes appraisals, and when the logged in user belongs to a group with the Historical Scores feature enabled. Click this option to display a line graph that shows how the score on this competency has changed over the course of multiple appraisals. The graph includes scores from all completed appraisals that included this competency.