Viewing the results of your self-assessment
Once you have completed your self-assessment you may view your current skill level by selecting My Skills.
For each skill area there are two boxes with percentage figures in them:
- The first shows 100%, meaning that you answered yes to 100% of the questions in that skill area. This is your current level.
- The second box indicates how far towards reaching the next level you are and is determined by the number of YES answers you gave at that level.
For example
In the skill area Operate a Computer, you might have answered 60% of the questions with a YES at advanced level. The e-skills Passport would then have asked you to look at the level below; intermediate. Assuming you answered 100% of these questions with a YES, you would have been prompted to save your current skill level at intermediate.
Now if you were to view your skill level for Operate a Computer using My Skills, you would see a box showing 100% at intermediate level, indicating you answered 100% at this level, and another box next to it showing 60%, indicating that you are 60% of your way to the next level.
Viewing options
There are two ways to view My Skills:
- pictorial view (default): providing an overview
- detailed view: shows you a list of can do statements to reflect your YES answers from both your current, and your partial skill levels
Hint: completion of the self-assessment creates your profile. You can check the status of your profile by looking for a blue box at the top of the screen showing: In Progress; Awaiting Approval; or Profile Approved.
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How to plan your learning
There are two parts to the Learning section:
1. Plan Learning: look through courses and plan learning to meet your targets
2. My Learning: view the courses you have added
Hint: Either Plan Learning or My Learning will appear in bold to indicate which part of the Learning section you are in.
Planning Learning
- The Plan Learning page displays a list of skills and techniques
- To access course options for each skill click on the plus (+) sign next to the skill you are interested in
- You will see your current and target levels for each skill and be shown course options to help you reach your targets
- If a qualification or job profile has been assigned to you, the course options will help you progress to the required skill levels to meet that profile
- If no qualification or job profile has been assigned to you, course options to take you one level up will be displayed.
- To see further details of the courses displayed click on the plus sign next to them
- To add the course to your learning plan click the Add button
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Your Targets Explained
There are two parts to the Targets section:
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View Skills Targets: works as a record of achievement showing your current skill level and how close you are to your target level to determine your learning gap. You may also see details of your existing and targetqualifications
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My Assigned Profile: allows you to compare your current skill level against your assigned qualification or job profile
Hint: either View Skills Targets or My Assigned Profile will appear in bold to indicate which part of the Targets section you are in.
View Skills Targets
You can view your current and target skill levels iin three ways:
1. Show skill level details
2. Show qualification details
3. Show both
To change between these view options use the radio buttons across the top of the Key.
Show skill level details
This view differs depending on whether your employer has assigned to you a qualification or job profile.
//Profile not yet assigned
If you have not been assigned a profile you will see your current skill level, indicated by a box showing 100%. This means that you answered yes to 100% of the questions about the skill for that level.
The red box indicates your target skills level with a percentage to show how far towards this level you already are.
//Profile assigned
If your manager has assigned you a profile you can view your skill level for each technique in comparison to the skill level needed for the profile assigned to you.
You may already be at a higher level than needed for a certain technique. If this is the case you will see that the target level indicator is below your current skill level and no further action is required.
If the target level for any given skill is two or more above your current skill level:
- you will see the 100% box at your current skill level
- there will be another box in the level above showing the percentage of your knowledge at this level
- there will be a red box, with a target sign in it and no percentage marking your target level.
For example
A job profile might have been assigned to you where by you need to be at advanced level for the skill Operate a Computer.
If you are currently at foundation level (you answered YES to 100% of the questions at foundation level in your self-assessment) a grey box will appear here with 100% written in it.
If you answered YES to 60% of the questions at the level above, intermediate, a grey box showing 60% would appear at intermediate.
Let us assume however that the target level for the job profile you have been assigned to is advanced for this skill area. A red box with a target sign would appear at advanced and there would be no percentage displayed.
If, in another case, the target level for the job profile you have been assigned to is intermediate, you would see
- a 100% grey box in foundation
- a red target box at intermediate showing 60% that indicates you already have 60% of the knowledge required to reach this level.
Show qualification details
Allows you to view details of qualifications undertaken and which skill areas and levels they contribute to.
Show both
Allows you to see both views together.
Detailed view
You are also able to see the different views using the detailed view option.
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Receiving emails
To give emails automatically generated by the Care Skills Passport system the best chance of getting through, please follow these steps:
1. double check that all email addresses are entered correctly;
2. check your junk email folder regularly and tell your email software to accept emails from us (passportinfo@e-skills.com); and
3. look out for emails from Care Skills Passport so that you don'’t delete them by mistake.