Skill gap analyses help employees identify gaps between what roles or jobs require and what they have to
offer personally. This is done by comparing the employee's profile with the profile defined for the role or job.
When setting up an analysis, you can open an extra window in the Skill mapping - profiles form and define
a complex search consisting of entries in four areas. Each area has its own menu tab. How do you access
these additional tabs?
As part of an employee development plan, an employee will receive a specific education. How can you
record that the education is a result of the activity identified in the development plan line?
Alex Roland and Ranjit Varkey Chudukatil have just finished their annual appraisal interview and they
agreed that the goal of Ranjit's development plan is to move him towards the sales management track. In
order to do this Alex and Ranjit have decided that Ranjit must develop his key account management and
coaching skills. Where can Alex link the appropriate training courses to the necessary development
activity?
Companies often use appraisal interviews in conjunction with employee development plans. During an
appraisal interview, a manager and his or her employee can discuss the employee's current and future
work tasks and personal goals and use the information to set development targets and identify activities
that will help cultivate the corresponding skills. In the system, what is the interdependency between
appraisal interviews and development plans?
An employee's development plan has not been followed up on for the preceding year. Some of the planned
development activities, defined on the plan's lines, have been finished and some have been postponed.
After a recent round of appraisal interviews, it is now time to close the preceding year's plans and start this
year's. What happens when the employee's manager tries to end the old development plan?
A project management course has been offered within the company. There can be a maximum of ten
participants per course. Nadejda Marinova receives fourteen requests to take part in the course. What
happens to the four participants who register after the limit of ten has been exceeded?