Skills in Viva is a new AI-powered service in the Microsoft Viva Suite to help you grow your career. This service also provides leaders in your organization with insights on employee skills.
Skills in Viva is currently in private preview and will be adding personalized experiences throughout Microsoft 365 and Viva applications to help you use your current skills and develop new ones.
Curate your skills today to take advantage of the upcoming personalized experiences.
Curate your skills
Skills in Viva provides AI-driven skill suggestions based on your job role and activities. You can find them on the Your skills page following your profile.
Confirm skills you have to share your them with others in your organization and take advantage of future experiences.
You can also dismiss skill suggestions that don’t apply to you to help improve the suggestions you receive.
If you don’t want to receive AI-driven skill suggestions, you can disable them.
Confirm or dismiss skill suggestions
To confirm skill suggestions:
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You can confirm multiple skills at once and add them to Skills you’re sharing. Select each skill you want to confirm and then select Confirm skills.
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The skills you've confirmed appear on the same page in the Skills you're sharing section.
To dismiss a skill suggestion:
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Select or hover on a skill suggestion to see a short description. If the skill doesn't apply to you, select the X to dismiss it.
Tip: If you don’t have a particular skill yet but are interested in learning it, don’t dismiss the suggestion. You can add it as a Skill you're growing. Read the Grow your skills section later in this article for more information.
Choose whether to receive skill suggestions
You can control whether you see AI-generated skill suggestions.
Select Skill settings and then toggle the Skill suggestions button on or off. You can also access this setting from the Manage AI suggestions button on the Your skills page.
Search for a skill
On the Your skills page, enter the name of the skill you're looking for in the search bar. The search bar displays relevant skills found in your organization's skills library.
You can search for and add multiple skills at once.
1. Select the skill you want from the list.
2. To add more than one skill, search again. Each skill you select appears below the search bar.
3. Select Confirm skills when you're done searching.
4. The skill appears in the Skills you're sharing section and on your Manage skills page.
Add skills from other systems in your organization
If your organization imports skills you’ve selected in another system, you’ll see them on the Your skills page.
Select those that are relevant to you and then select Confirm skills to add them to Skills you’re sharing.
Manage your skills
Select Manage skills from the navigation links at the beginning of the page or the Manage your skills button near the end of the page. Here's what you can do:
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Manage preferences for all of your skills.
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Remove skills you’ve previously confirmed.
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Retrieve skills you’ve previously dismissed or removed.
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Select skills you’re interested in growing.
Manage skills
On the Manage skills page, you'll find a list of your skills. The Preferences section shows the confirmed skills you're sharing with others in your organization, as well as the skills you're currently growing.
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Select the search or filter icons to quickly find the skill you’re looking for.
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Select the three vertical dots to the right of any skill name to Edit skill or Remove skill.
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In the Edit skill pane, you can add or remove skills from Skills you’re sharing and Skills you’re growing.
Retrieve skills you’ve previously dismissed or removed
To recover any skill that you previously dismissed or removed:
1. In Manage dismissed skills, select Manage.
2. Select skills to recover and then select whether to add them to Skills you’re sharing, Skills you’re growing, or to both.
3. Select Save to confirm your choices.
Grow your skills
Select skills you'd like to learn and develop with upcoming experiences.
1. In Grow your skills, select from the AI-driven skill suggestions shown or search for skills that you’re interested in growing. You can select multiple skills at once.
2. Select Show all to open a view of all available AI-driven skill suggestions.
3. When you have selected all the skills you want to add to those you’re growing, select Add.
Tip: You can also add skills you’ve previously confirmed or dismissed to Skills you’re growing from the Manage skills list or from Manage dismissed skills.
