Competency scales
Every skill is measured on a competency scale. The default scale has five levels:
| Level | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Awareness | Knows what the skill is and why it matters; needs guidance to apply it |
| 2 | Basic | Applies the skill to routine tasks with some support |
| 3 | Working | Applies the skill independently to the usual range of work |
| 4 | Advanced | Handles complex or unusual situations and guides others |
| 5 | Expert | Recognised authority; sets direction and standards for others |
Your organisation can add other scales. On a draft's Skills step, What the levels mean lists every scale.
Skill sets
A skill set is a group of skills, each at the level the library says it needs: for example Core Digital Skills in the sandbox. Ticking a set on a draft brings in all its skills at those levels.
Role-specific skills
These are skills the role needs beyond its sets, each with its own required level. A skill already in a chosen set is not offered again.
When a set changes in the library
A draft keeps each set as it was when it was added, and a published version never changes. If HR changes a set later, the draft marks it changed in the library, and the version's page says A skill set on this draft has changed in the library. Choose Use the library's current sets to take the new version. Renaming a skill, or a level of its scale, counts as a change.