Using the skill profile

When you access your skill profile (or the skill profile of another user) you will see a number of elements, including progress wheels, graphs and lists. These are all explained in more detail below. 

Progress wheels

When you access either your own skill profile or the profile of someone else if there are any active assigned skills you will see a set of progress wheels at the top of the screen. Each progress wheel represents a single assignment to a group of skills. For example if you have been assigned to one or more skills because of a particular position (e.g. Technical Writer) or audience (e.g. Content makers) then you will see a progress wheel representing the progress of all of the skills assigned to you via that position. If you have any direct assignments (skills that have been assigned directly to you and not via a position, organisation or audience) then they will also be represented by a progress wheel. As will any self-assigned skills.

There will be no visible progress wheels if you or the user you are viewing has no skill assignments or has only archived assignments.

When viewing the progress wheels the percentage (%) figure is calculated as follows: 

• Number of skills rated not proficient against number of skills rated proficient (converted into a percentage)

Graphs and lists

Underneath the progress wheels you will see either a series of graphs or a list of skills, which you can toggle between using the option in the right corner above the graphs or list. You can then filter the graphs or lists by using the Viewing by assignment dropdown menu. Choose from:

• Current assignment (all current assignments)

• A particular current assignment (based on a particular position, organisation or audience assignment as well as directly assigned and self-assigned skills)

• Archived assignment (all archived assignments)

• A particular archived assignment (based on a particular position, organisation or audience assignment as well as directly assigned and self-assigned skills)

Graphs

Each graph represents a single skill assignment. To help usability the number of skills associated to each assignment will determine whether it is displayed as a bar graph or spider diagram. 

• Assignments with two or fewer skills will show as a bar graph

• Assignments with 12 or more skills will show as a bar graph

• Assignments with between two and 12 skills will show as a spider diagram

When viewing either the bar graph or spider diagram the yellow dots will indicate the proficient level for that skill, while the blue dots will indicate the achieved level of skill (this could be higher than the required level). The gap between the current proficiency level and required proficiency in graphs is represented as a percentage, rather than the actual rating to allow skills with different scales to be represented together in a single graph.

If you wish to see the scale value for either the current achievement level (blue dot) or required proficiency level (yellow dot) then you can do this by hovering your mouse cursor over the dot. 

Next steps

• Access your skill profile

• Access another user's skill profile

• Rate a skill