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Inhibit free-text skills
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Free-text skills are skills on employee profiles that aren't defined in your skills taxonomy. When this feature is on, employees in Career Hub can only see and select skills from your taxonomy when they add skills. Career Hub doesn't offer a typed term as a skill unless the term matches a skill in the taxonomy. This covers skill entry on the profile, in onboarding, in career interests, in skills assessments, in development plans, and when creating projects. Skills that are already on profiles stay in place.
WHY IT MATTERS
Talent Design and skills reporting use the same skill names that your taxonomy defines, so you spend less time cleaning up skill data.
FEATURE DETAILS
Who can access | Employees and managers who add skills in Career Hub. |
Feature type | Default Off (Config implementation required) |
Requirements | A skills taxonomy for your account. |
GETTING STARTED
Admins: Ask your Eightfold Customer Success Manager to turn on the feature for your account, as described in the configuration doc. Tell them whether employees should also choose from Eightfold's standard skills, or only from your own taxonomy. For more settings, read the Career Hub free-text skills configuration guide.
End users: When adding skills, you can only select skills from your organization's taxonomy. Free-text entries that don't match a skill in the taxonomy won't appear. For more info, read Inhibit free-text skills.
