The Skills Panel
Summary: 
For those tasks that require certain skills, you can tag them with the skills so that the right person chooses or is assigned the right work.
Tip: Skills are a Professional feature. They're useful when others may need to understand whether someone can reliably do the work or not.
What Are Skills?
Runcible includes: Soft Skills, Hard Skills, and Desirable Skills
• Soft Skills: Personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people.
• Hard Skills: Personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people.
• Desirable Skills: A weighted value of just the skills that are valuable to your organization.
These Skills also appear on everyone's Profile Page.
Do I need to Use Skills?
You don't need to put skills on all tasks. But if you do put skills on tasks where you are not sure who will do the work, then you'll have some insurance that the right person does the work.
What Are Skill Levels?
Every skill is described using one or more levels. So you always assign both a skill and level.
Every skill level is described as a statement of something demonstrable - that you can see.
Tidbit: We were trying to get away from the "LinkedIn" problem, where skills were so vague as to be meaningless, and where they tended to be popularity measurements rather than quality measurements. And so we wanted: - A system where 'overstatement' of your skills was a risk to your reputation. - And where opinions of peers in your craft were meaningful and those without that knowledge less so. - Where each level of skill required as objective a statement as possible. And that's how Runcible's weighted Skill system works.
What Are Disciplines?
A discipline is a branch of knowledge, or a 'craft', or an 'area of expertise'.
Runcible organizes skills into disciplines.
More... See Disciplines
What Are Skill Ratings?
Tip: Our data, accumulated over many years, suggests that the most expensive errors often occur when we put people unable to the work on a task, and the work must be rescued by someone more senior, whose absence on other projects affects their budget, schedule, and quality as well. The cascading costs of these mistakes sometimes can be far higher than the entire profit from the project.
What Other Actions Can I Take?
- View the Skill Levels
- Expand the Skills to use the Skill Levels
What Do the Counters Mean?
The Counters represent the number of available tasks tagged with that skill.
Note: The counters are not present. This is an open issue waiting fix.
What Filters Can I Use?
Text. (Smart Search is not enabled for this panel)
Tip: For skills, Runcible uses a text vector that looks like this: "Marketing/Creative/Tools/Photoshop" to categorize skills. When searching for filters, Runcible searches the entire vector. This means you can do fairly complex searches for skills once you get some experience with it. Tidbit: We spent too much money trying to research and use industry standard skill lists. But it turns out that they are about as antique as is tax policy or the calculation of gross domestic product. Most are weighted toward organizational models that no longer are practiced, educational training that is no longer relevant, government bureaucracies that are unsustainable, and low skilled work. So we did our own research and created our own skill hierarchies more suitable for the current decade (and century). We will add more for more niche disciplines in the future. You're welcome to add your own as well. We will keep them customizable for the near future, and eventually standardize them so that skill ratings across organizations evolve to become comparable.
More...
See Skills