With Skills, TalentLMS allows your users to upskill and acquire job-specific knowledge. With the Talent Pool, you can find users who match your organization’s open positions based on their assigned and completed skills. 

To access the Talent Pool, follow these steps: 

1. Log in to your portal as an Administrator (1). 

2. Go to Skills (2). 

3. Select Talent Pool (3). 

To work with the Talent Pool, follow these steps: 

1. Once in the Talent Pool section, type a job role (1) and press Enter or click on Search (2) to lookup matching users. As you type, suggestions will appear in the dropdown list.

2. A list of users with skills relevant to the role will come up, sorted based on their Match (3) percentage. This percentage is calculated based on the number of skills the users have, as well as the levels they have completed. 

From that point, you can either check which user best matches your job role’s needs or see which aspects they lack so that your training focus can shift there. You can also click on any user to see their Skill mastery and assign more Skills, check the recommendations and respond to any upgrade requests.

To widen your options, you can deactivate skills that are related to a role you are searching for, which can result in a larger user number in the list. This only applies in the current search, and the next time you search for the same role, all of its related skills will be enabled.

For convenience, TalentLMS allows you to quickly access the four most recent searches and repeat them by clicking on the Repeat search (4) button.

To deactivate any unwanted skills related to a role, follow these steps: 

1. After searching for a role and selecting it, click Customize skills (1). 

2. A drawer will open on the right side of the screen. To deactivate unwanted skills, toggle the switch under the Active column (2). 

3. Once you are done with the changes, click on Update (3) to check the refined user list.