Steps: Set Up Skill Level

Select

Populate Suggested Skills for Workers

on the

Maintain Skills and Experience Setup

task.

Enable user access to view and edit skill sources. See Reference: Skill Sources.

You can enable Workday to calculate skill levels for worker skills that users can view. When workers click a skill on a worker profile, Workday displays:

The calculated skill level.

Different skill level sources depending on your configuration.

A breakdown of the skill level calculation and a link to the

Skill Detail

report for the skill.

Workday doesn't display this information when workers click a skill on a career profile, or on Workday on Android, iPad, or iPhone. When you enable skills self-assessment on the worker profile, workers can self-rate their skill level.

Edit Domain Security Policies.

Configure these domains in the Worker Profile and Skills functional area:

Person Data: Skill Level

Self-Service: Skill Level

Enable skill level sources. You must set up at least 1 of these sources:

Skill Level Source	Setup Information
Skill Assessment Rating	Set up skill assessments. See Concept: Skill Assessments. To enable users to view the ratings, add them to these domains in the Worker Profile and Skills functional area: Person Data: Skill Assessment Data Self-Service: Skill Assessment Data When calculating the skill level, Workday only includes the worker’s most recent skill assessment rating for each skill.
Requested Feedback Ratings	Set up skill ratings in feedback templates. See Steps: Set Up Skill Endorsements and Ratings. To enable users to view the ratings, add them to these domains in the Worker Profile and Skills functional area: Self-Service: Skill Ratings Worker Data: Skill Ratings When calculating the average rating for this source, Workday includes the latest rating from each user who rates the worker on this skill.
Self Assessment	Enable self-assessment on the worker profile or as a step within skill assessments. See Enable Skills Cloud and Concept: Skill Assessments. To enable users to view the ratings, add them to these domains in the Worker Profile and Skills functional area: Self-Service: Skill Ratings Worker Data: Skill Ratings When calculating the skill level, Workday only includes the worker’s most recent self-assessment rating for each skill.
Externally Calculated Skill Level	Import externally calculated skill levels using the Import External Skill Sources web service. See Steps: Enable Importing of External Skills. Add workers to these domains in the Worker Profile and Skills functional area to enable them to view external skill levels: Self-Service: External Skill Source Worker Data: External Skill Source

Maintain Skill Level.

Specify weightings for skill level calculation and configure custom labels for skill levels.

(Optional) Add workers to these domains in the Worker Profile and Skills functional area and set up skill ratings in feedback templates:

Self-Service: Skill Ratings

Worker Data: Skill Ratings

See Steps: Set Up Skill Endorsements and Ratings.

(Optional) Add workers to these domains in the Worker Profile and Skills functional area to enable them to select external skills as a skill source:

Self-Service: External Skill Source

Worker Data: External Skill Source

Workday calculates the skill level by averaging skill sources based on the weightings you configured on the

Maintain Skill Level Setup

task. If there are no sources available for a skill, Workday displays the

Skill Level

field as Not Applicable on the Skill Detail report.