Human Resources> Setup> Employee> Skills> Skills

Use this form to create skills that can be associated with an employee, applicant, or contact person, or used to describe a job. You can create specific professional skills, as well as less tangible skills, such as leadership. For example, skills can be:

• Supervisory - Ability to supervise the work of others.

• Leadership - Ability to lead employees and business domains.

• Visionary - Ability to look ahead, to formulate visions, and to see them through.

• ODA - Ability to make object-oriented analyses and design.

• MorphX - Ability to program in the Microsoft Dynamics AX Axapta MorphX development environment.

When you create skills, you must specify the skill types in order to divide skills into categories.

Skills are used in:

• Job - To describe the skills expected in a job.

• Employee - To describe employees' skills.

• Applicants - To describe applicants' skills.

• Skill-mapping - profiles - As search criteria.

• Contacts- To describe the skills of contact persons.