By creating Skill Sets in Cinode, you enable your organisation to analyse internal skills through structured reporting.
Skill Sets provide a clear overview of employees’ and subcontractors’ skills and proficiency levels, helping you ensure the right mix of competencies for assignments, customers, and business goals.
Skill Sets also support strategic decisions related to competency development, workforce planning, and recruitment.
🎥 Watch the video
Watch the video below to see how Skill Sets are created and structured in Cinode.
What is the purpose of Skill Sets?
The goal of Skill Sets is to establish a shared and unified skills repository within your organisation.
This makes it possible to:
Search and analyse skills consistently
Assess delivery capacity accurately
Maintain the same skill structure across profiles and CVs
Ensure skills are entered in a consistent and reliable way
A centralised Skill Set structure improves both data quality and long-term maintainability.
Who can create and manage Skill Sets? 🔐
Creating and managing Skill Sets requires administrator access.
Administrators are responsible for:
Defining Skill Sets
Structuring categories
Deciding which skills belong to each Skill Set
Once created, Skill Sets can be viewed and used across the organisation, but only administrators can modify their structure.
Why use Skill Sets? 💡
Skill Sets help employees and subcontractors add relevant skills more easily to their:
CV
Profile
Overview
Growth plan
By using predefined Skill Sets, your organisation ensures that the same skills and definitions are used consistently by everyone.
Five ways to structure Skill Sets 🧩
You can create multiple Skill Sets depending on your organisation’s needs. Below are common and recommended approaches.
By role
Create Skill Sets that reflect roles within your organisation.
Example:
Create a Skill Set called Roles and add roles such as:
Fullstack Developer
Frontend Developer
Backend Developer
This makes it easy to analyse skill coverage and average proficiency per role.
By role-specific skills
Build Skill Sets around the skills required for a specific role.
Example:
Create a Fullstack Developer Skill Set with skills such as:
C#
Angular
T-SQL
Entity Framework
This helps identify missing or weak competencies for a role.
By customer
Create Skill Sets based on customer-specific requirements.
Example:
For a customer called Volso, create a Skill Set named Customer – Volso and include skills such as:
Project Management
JavaScript
Scrum Master
Swift
This supports customer-specific delivery and staffing.
For growth plans
Use Skill Sets to support long-term competency development.
Example:
Create a Growth Plan Skill Set containing skills such as:
UX Designer
UX Design
User Experience
Marketing Developer
This helps guide individual and organisational growth initiatives.
For business growth
Structure Skill Sets to align with strategic business priorities.
Example:
Create a Business Growth Skill Set with multiple categories, each containing skills linked to your growth strategy.
This ensures skill development supports overall business goals.
How to build a Skill Set 🏗️
To create a Skill Set in Cinode:
Go to Administration → Process
Open the Skill Sets tab
Click the plus (+) icon next to Add a new skill set
Enter a Business Area (for example, Business Growth)
Click the plus (+) icon under the Business Area to add a category
If categories are not needed, add skills directly in the Skills field
Type skills into the Skills field and press Enter after each skill
To add a new Skill Set as a subheading, click the plus (+) icon under the relevant area
You can add as many categories and skills as required.
Duplicate and reuse Skill Sets ♻️
You can duplicate an existing Skill Set to save time.
Click on a Skill Set to view the Duplicate option and create a copy that can be adjusted as needed.
Using Skill Sets in reports 📊
Once Skill Sets are created, they can be used to filter and analyse data in reports.
Reports are available for viewing across the organisation
Only administrators can change Skill Set structures or assigned skills
This makes Skill Sets a powerful tool for ongoing analysis and decision-making.
Examples of common Skill Sets 📋
Below are examples of commonly used Skill Sets, based on customer success stories:
Cloud Architect
Cloud Engineer – Azure
Cloud Engineer – AWS
Cloud Engineer – GCP
DevOps Engineer
IT Infrastructure Specialist
Backend Developer – .NET
Backend Developer – Java
Backend Developer – Python
Fullstack Developer – .NET
Fullstack Developer – Java
Fullstack Developer – Python
Integration Specialist
Solution Architect
Data Engineer
BI Specialist
Data Specialist
Project Manager (IT)
Scrum Master
Product Owner
📄 Optional template
You can use the Skill Set template below as inspiration when defining your own structure:
👉 Link to document > http://cinode.com/downloads/SkillSetTemplateForCinodeCustomers.xlsx