By creating skill sets in Cinode, you gain the ability to analyse your organisation’s internal skill supply through comprehensive reporting. This provides a clear overview of your employees’ and subcontractors’ skills, as well as their proficiency levels. Such insights enable you to ensure you have the right mix of competencies to meet your assignments, client needs, and business objectives. Additionally, this data supports strategic decisions regarding competency development and recruitment.
The goal is to establish a unified skills repository within your organisation. This allows for seamless skill searching and accurate assessment of delivery capacity. A centralised skill set structure ensures consistency and accuracy across all profiles and CVs, making workforce documentation easier to maintain.
Why Use Skill Sets?
Skill sets help your employees and subcontractors easily add relevant skills to their:
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To utilise skill sets, an administrator must create a matrix in Cinode, defining various skill sets based on categories, and specifying which skills belong to each set.
Tip: Watch our instructional video to see how to create skill sets in Cinode.
Five Tips for Creating Skill Sets
You can create several skill sets based on your needs. Here are some recommended approaches:
By Role:
Create skill sets to reflect the roles within your company. For example, name a skill set “Roles” and add specific roles such as Fullstack Developer, Frontend Developer, and Backend Developer. This helps you view the distribution and average competency levels of each role.
By Role-Specific Skills:
Build skill sets around the skills required for a particular role. For example, create a “Fullstack Developer” skill set and include skills like C#, Angular, TSQL, and Entity Framework. This allows you to quickly identify any missing competencies for that role.By Customer:
Create skill sets tailored to the requirements of key customers. For example, for a client named Volso, create a “Customer Volso” skill set and add skills such as Project Management, JavaScript, Scrum Master, and Swift.For Growth Plans:
Use skill sets to support your company’s growth plans. If there are key skills you wish to develop further, group them in a “Growth Plan” skill set (e.g., UX Designer, UX Design, User Experience, Marketing Developer). This makes it easy for employees to add these skills to their individual growth plans.For Business Growth:
Organise skill sets into categories that support strategic business growth. For example, create a “Business Growth” skill set, divided into specific categories, each containing relevant skills. This enables you to align skill development with your business strategy.
How to Build a Skill Set
Follow these steps to create a skill set in Cinode:
Go to Administration > Process in the menu.
Click the Skill sets tab.
Click the plus sign (+) next to Add a new skill set.
Enter a Business Area, e.g., “Business Growth”.
Click the plus sign next to Add a new skill set under [Business Area] to start adding a category. If you do not need categories, simply add skills directly in the Skills field.
Type the skills for your category in the Skills field and press Enter after each skill.
To add a new skill set as a subheading, click the plus (+) sign under the relevant area.
You can add as many categories and skills as required. Once your skill sets are created, you can filter reports to analyse your skills supply and how it aligns with your defined sets. These reports are accessible to view, but only administrators can modify the structure of skill sets or assign skills to them.