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Mapping Skills to Opportunities

Introduction

These functions under the Employability section of SUMS enable you to assign skills to various opportunities. This guide will show you how to create your own Skills and assign these to different opportunities.

Adding Skills

Firstly, you need to have Skills added on SUMS, before these can be skills-mapped to different opportunities.

  1. Navigate to the Employability module, then click Skills.
  2. Click the green ‘Create Skill’ button.
  3. Enter the Name of the skill e.g. Communication.
  4. You can add a description if you wish, in the Description box.
  5. Click the green ‘Submit’ button.
  6. This will now appear in this section, along with any other Skills you create.

Skills-mapping opportunities

Once you have created your Skills, you will then be able to map these to opportunities.

  1. Navigate to the Employability module, then click Skills.
  2. Click the blue ‘Mapping’ button.
  3. Click the green ‘Create Mapping’ button.
  4. Select the Type of role you wish to assign a skill to.
  5. Select the Role from the drop-down menu or start typing to search for the role.
  6. Select which Skill you wish to assign to this role.
  7. Add a Description in the box.
  8. Click the green ‘Submit’ button.
  9. You can then start the process again if you wish to map more skills to an opportunity.

Updated on 20th of October 2020