Training recommendations

Now that you have set skills to develop, you can start searching for the right development activities. To this end, switch to the Development activities tab in the Learning & Development area.

To get proper training recommendations based on the skills and proficiency levels you have defined as your development targets, check out the Training recommendations section. To open the full list of recommendations, click in the banner.

Training recommendations

Find trainings

On the Development activities tab, click Find trainings to start searching for training you can add to your development plan.

On the page that opens use the search box to find your trainings. You can search for trainings using the free text search. When searching for a training, all available trainings of the beginner level are returned in the hits.

Here you can make use of a rich selection of different training libraries added in smartLibrary and connected in smartPeople.

On the picture below, you can see skill hits marked with the  icon, and training hits marked with the  icon.

To perform a fast and precise search as well as pick out the result that matches your search criteria most closely, you can browse trainings by their categories. To this end, click Browse on the search bar, and then click a training category you need to locate the right trainings. As a result, you get a list of trainings belonging to the selected category.

If you choose a skill hit, you get a list of trainings matching the skill. You can now even use more than one filter to further narrow down your results. The following are groups of filters to apply:

  • Skill
  • Rating
  • Provider
  • Language

Once you have found the training you need, click it to view search results for the skill trainings.

If you choose a training hit, you navigate directly to the training details page.

Training details

On the training details page, you can view its duration, price, rating, a number of skills covered, as well as its requirements and description. In addition, you can bookmark this training, add it to your training plan, or mark as completed.

If you add a training to your training plan, it is shown under Training plan on the Development activities page.

You can bookmark a training by clicking Bookmark on the training details page. As a result, all the bookmarked trainings are added to the Bookmarked tab on the Development activities page. To undo the action, click Bookmark once again.

Once you complete a training, click Mark as completed on the training details page. As a result, all the completed trainings are added to the Completed tab on the Development activities page.

Development activities

On the Development activities page, you can see all your activities distributed between the following tabs:

  • Training plan. Here you can find trainings you have added to your training plan.
  • Bookmarked. Here you can find trainings you have booked for later.
  • Completed. Here you can find trainings you have already completed.

Development activities

You can further manage training records on each tab of the Development activities page.

On the Training plan tab, you can apply any of the following actions to the training record:

  • Remove from training plan
  • Add bookmark or Remove bookmark
  • Mark as completed

On the Bookmarked tab, you can apply any of the following actions to the training record:

  • Move to training plan or Remove from training plan
  • Remove bookmark
  • Mark as completed

On the Completed tab, you can apply any of the following actions to the training record:

  • Add bookmark or Remove bookmark
  • Move to training plan

To apply an action to a training record, first, click the three dots button within that training record, and then click the command of your choice.

Next step

Well done! Now learn how to browse the platform and find a matching job.