Add a Position and Define Skills

SkyHive allows you to define the core skills required for positions that typically require multiple employees and regular hiring so you can easily understand how your existing workers compare against the benchmark. It's also a shortcut to sourcing new talent for the role. 

To define core skills for a position:

Step 1: Select Enterprise Structure on the left menu bar. If you don't see a menu bar, click on the hamburger menu icon in the top left corner, then select Enterprise Structure followed by Positions.

Step 2: Click on Add New Position. 

Note: Alternatively, by clicking the Actions drop-down menu, you can Import Positions that will provide the following instructions for you to pre-populate the Positions fields:

Step 3: The following General Information can now be filled in:

• Position Name: Position Name is displayed under the Employee Name.
• Job Code: An possible ID to identify the job. (Optional)
  
• Labor Market Title:  If enabled, this feature allows you to see how the position is currently referred to in the labor market and select skill recommendations based on labor market definition for this position. (Read more about this feature)
• Description: A description for the Position (This can be pasted in, or you may Generate a Description) 
• Alternate Names: If this Position goes by other names within your organization, you can enter them here. This field is often used to enter a labor market position name that is the equivalent of your enterprise specific name to allow the position to match closer to labor market relevant titles. This field is then read to recommend more accurate role titles, job recommendations, and career paths. It's particularly helpful to use when a position has a title specific to your enterprise (Ie; Senior professional on mobile experience team).
• Reference ID: Integration ID or External ID

Alternatively, you may also Generate a Position Description for common positions found in the labor market if you add a new position. 

Copy the Recommended Position Description 

Paste in the Description text box and make adjustments as you see fit

Step 4: Add the core skills required for this role. You can choose skills extracted from the description. 

• Future Labor Market Skills: Recommended based on predicted labor market demand for the position. This process combines a regression-based model with processing future-facing materials such as subject matter expertise, academic studies, research papers, etc. 
• Description Skills: Skills extracted from the position description field. 

Once you've defined the core skills, click CREATE at the bottom.

Step 5: The position is then added to your Enterprise Structure.

You can now see how your existing workers who hold this position match the skills required and assign employees or source new candidates by creating a Job Offer based on the predetermined skill set. 

Activating Draft Positions

Individually Updating Draft to Active Position

To active an existing draft position, click the three-dot menu next to the position you'd like to active, and click "Activate"

Bulk Updating Draft to Active Positions

To make multiple draft positions active in bulk, follow these steps:

Step 1: Click the Draft tab

Step 2: Select all the positions you'd like to make active. You can also select all at the top.

Step 3: Click the Actions tab and select Activate

Updated July 12, 2023 22:22