Overview of People Skills

View and manage your skills

You can easily confirm imported or AI-added skills, remove any skills from your profile that you don’t want, and add more right from the Microsoft 365 profile card in Outlook web app, the new Outlook for Windows, Office.com, Microsoft 365 Copilot, SharePoint and People Companion. You can also view the skills of colleagues on their profile cards.

Select or search for your name or those of a colleague in any of the referenced apps to view the profile card. For example, to open your profile card from Outlook web app, take the following steps:

1. Search for your name using the Search bar at the top of the Outlook web app window when in Mail or Org Explorer views.

2. In the dropdown menu, select the profile icon that appears to the right of your name to open your profile card. 

3. On the Overview tab, below the Contact information section, you see Skills. If a profile has been created for you by AI or imported by your organization, or if you have already confirmed skills, you see some of those skills here.  

To manage your skill profile, start from your own profile card. Select Update your profile at the top of the profile card to open the profile editor. Then select Skills. 

Manage AI-added or imported skills

In the profile editor, if skills were added by AI or imported by your organization's admin, you'll see a pane of skills to confirm. 

1. Select the X next to any skill name to delete a skill you don't want on your profile. 

2. Select each skill that you want to confirm. Or to confirm them all, choose Select all.

2. Select Confirm selected skills to leave the rest on your profile.

3. Select Save to save these changes.

You may have more skills to confirm than appear initially in the pane. Scroll down to view all skills before you confirm.

If you don't see any skills to confirm or want to add additional skills, you can add skills using the search bar.

Manage confirmed skills

Once you confirm skills that were added for you, you see a confirmation page, where you can view and manage your confirmed skills, and add more from search. 

Add skills from search 

You can search the set of skills made available by your organization admin to add additional skills to your profile. The option to add skills from search is always available in the profile editor on the Skills page.

Your organization provides the list of skills you can search. Reach out to your organization’s admin if you don’t see a skill you want to add.

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