Adding Skills to User Profiles

Overview

Adding skills to user profiles is how learners begin their development journey in Learn Amp. Once skills are on a profile, learners can rate themselves, set targets, request manager feedback, and receive personalised content recommendations.

This article covers the different ways skills can be added to profiles—whether by learners themselves, through onboarding, via bulk import, or automatically through role assignments.

Functionality Breakdown

Ways to Add Skills

Learner Self-Selection
Learners can browse and add skills to their own profiles at any time. This empowers individuals to take ownership of their development.

Onboarding Flow
New users are prompted to select skills when they first join the platform. Featured skill categories appear during this flow, helping learners get started quickly.

Bulk Import
Admins can import skills to user profiles via CSV, useful for large-scale rollouts or aligning skills to organisational data.

Automatic Assignment via Roles
When Roles are configured with associated skills, and job titles are synced from your HRIS, skills can be automatically assigned based on a user's role.

Skill Rating Options

Once a skill is added, users can:

• Self-rate – Assess their own proficiency level

• Set a target – Define where they want to be

• Request a manager rating – Get their manager's perspective

Pre-requisites

To add skills to user profiles, you'll need:

• Skills feature enabled on your account

• Skills created in your library (see Creating and Managing Skills)

Required User Roles

Quick Start Guide

For Learners: Adding Skills to Your Profile

Option 1: Via Your Profile

1. Click your profile image in the top navigation bar

2. Click on your name to open your profile

3. Select the Skills tab

4. Click + Add skill

5. Search or browse for skills you want to add

6. Click the + icon next to each skill to add it

7. Click Done when finished

Option 2: Via the Sidebar

1. Click My Development in the sidebar → Skills

2. Click Add here or + Add skill

3. Search or browse for skills

4. Add the skills you want

5. Click Done

💡 Tip: The skills you add feed directly into your content recommendations on the Discover page, helping you find learning that matches your interests.

Rating Your Skills

Once you've added skills:

1. Find the skill you want to rate

2. Click Update rating or the three-dot menu

3. Choose from:

   • Self-rate – Select your current proficiency level

   • Set a target – Choose where you want to be

   • Request manager rating – Send a request to your manager

4. Save your selection

For Admins: Auto-Assigning Skills via Roles

To automatically assign skills based on job titles:

Step 1: Set Up Your HRIS Integration

Ensure your HRIS is syncing the Job Title field to Learn Amp.

Step 2: Configure Roles with Skills

1. Click your profile image → Company Settings → Learning Taxonomy → Roles

2. Create or edit a Role

3. Add the skills that should be associated with this role

4. Ensure the Role name matches the Job Title exactly as it appears in your HRIS

Step 3: Enable Job Title Control

1. Go to Company Settings → People

2. Enable the setting to use Job Title to control users' Roles

When a user's Job Title is updated via the HRIS integration, their Role in Learn Amp will update, and the associated skills will be assigned automatically.

For Admins: Bulk Importing Skills to Profiles

Via Teams, Groups, or Company

1. Click Manage in the sidebar → Skills

2. Select Team, Group, or Company tab

3. Click Actions → Import topics

4. Follow the import wizard to assign skills in bulk

Via User Import

Skills can also be included in user CSV imports when updating user profiles in bulk.

FAQs

Q: Can learners remove skills from their profile?
Yes, learners can remove skills they've added. However, any ratings associated with that skill will be preserved in historical data.

Q: What happens to skills during onboarding?
Featured skill categories are presented to new users during onboarding. Learners can select from these categories to build their initial skill profile.

Q: Can managers add skills to their team members' profiles?
Managers can rate their direct reports' skills, but they cannot add or remove skills on someone else's profile. Learners control which skills appear on their own profiles (unless skills are auto-assigned via Roles).

Q: How do auto-assigned skills work?
When Roles are configured with skills and linked to Job Titles, users automatically receive the skills associated with their Role. This happens when:

• A new user joins and their Job Title matches a Role

• An existing user's Job Title changes via HRIS sync

Q: Can users have both auto-assigned and self-selected skills?
Yes. Auto-assigned skills from Roles are added to the user's profile alongside any skills they've added themselves.

Q: How many skills should a user have?
There's no limit, but we recommend focusing on skills that are genuinely relevant to the user's role and development goals. A focused set of 10–20 skills is often more meaningful than a long list.

Troubleshooting