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Advanced Learning

The Advanced Learning features enable you to manage many aspects of talent management. Talent Management is a set of holistic and strategic organizational activities that span the employee life cycle from pre-hire through retire. These activities include how you attract, select, train, develop, promote, and move employees through the organization, as well as include in the overall success of a high performance organization. Often talent management initiatives are driven by core organizational goals (and cascading goals), competencies, and skills.

The Advanced Learning menu provides the features needed to do that from within LearnCenter. Major functions within the feature set include Skills Definition, Competency Mapping, Job Profile Definition, Job Profile to Skills Mapping, Individual tracking of Skills, Skills to Course/Class Mapping, and Individual Learning Plans. Using this robust feature set, managers can more efficiently deploy their human capital, thus delivering improved business results.

The following User Permissions are required to use the features in this menu:

View Content (parent and sub User Permissions)
View Admin Tools
Manage Skills (parent and sub User Permissions)
Manage Job Profiles (parent and sub User Permissions)
Manage Learning Plans (parent and sub User Permissions)
Manage User Skills (parent and sub User Permissions)
Manage Competencies (parent and sub User Permissions)
Manage Ratings (parent and sub User Permissions)
Manage Performance Management (parent and sub User Permissions)

See User Permissions for instructions on granting and denying User Permissions.

On the ControlPanel, click on the Advanced Learning menu to expand it. On the Advanced Learning menu you can manage:

Certificates	Forms
Certification Tracks	Job Profiles
Competencies	Learning Plan Settings
Credits	Learning Plans
Electronic Signatures	Skills
Form Templates

Setting Up Advanced Learning

The LearnCenter enables you to create relationships or links between items. These links are referred to as mappings. Mappings work together to present training content and other information to Users. Job Profiles are the central feature through which all Advanced Learning mappings are created. For this reason, Taleo Learn recommends you build your inventory of talent management items for Advanced Learning in the following order:

Ratings
Skills
Competencies
Certification Tracks (Optional)
Learning Plans
Job Profiles

Later, you can measure individual’s progress toward organizational goals and skill achievement by creating Forms (appraisals). You can also monitor progress using reports.

How Learning Items Contribute to Completion

There is a hierarchy to how mapped learning items contribute to completion status.

Top Level Learning Items

At the top level of the hierarchy, these learning items do not contribute to another item's completion:

Competencies
Certification Tracks

Mapped second and third level learning items contribute to the completion of the top level items.

Second Level Learning Items

Second level learning items contribute to the completion of the top level items. Job Profiles are second level items. So according to this rule, Job Profiles do contribute to the completion of Competencies, but they are never required to complete third level learning items such as Skills or Learning Plans.

Third Level Learning Items

Third level learning items contribute to the completion of both second level and top level items. Third level learning items are:

Skills
Learning Plans

According to this rule, Skills contribute to the completion of both top level learning items (Competencies and Certification Tracks), and second level learning items (Job Profiles).