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# How Learners Earn Skills

# How Learners Earn Skills

**In this article:**
* Overview
* How earning a skill works
* Things to keep in mind
* FAQs
* Who can do this

## Overview
Skills are earned automatically as people learn. When a learner completes a piece of learning that has skills attached, SuperPath records those skills against them — no manual step is needed. This is how a person's skills profile builds up over time as they work through content, Pathways and Events.

## How earning a skill works
The key is the **Skills learnt** field on your learning. If an item has skills attached and a learner completes it, SuperPath adds each of those skills to the learner:

* **Complete a piece of Library content** that has skills attached — the learner earns those skills.
* **Complete an Event** that has skills attached — the learner earns those skills.
* **Complete a Pathway or a step within it** that leads to learning with skills attached — the learner earns those skills.
* **Complete a Roadmap competency level** that has skills attached — the learner earns those skills.

If a skill carries a proficiency level, the learner earns it at the level that was attached to the learning.

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## Things to keep in mind
* Skills are earned on **completion** — starting or being assigned a learning does not record the skill.
* Earning happens automatically in the background once the completion is recorded; there is no button for the learner to press.
* If a learner earns the same skill from more than one learning, SuperPath keeps a count rather than listing duplicates — so you can see how many times a skill has been reinforced.
* Attaching a skill to a learning only affects completions from that point on; it does not retroactively grant the skill to people who completed the item earlier.
* Skills synced from your HR system are earned in exactly the same way. On a person's profile they carry a **plug icon** to show where the skill came from, and they are recorded at the level that was attached to the learning, using your HR system's own level names.

## FAQs
**Does the learner have to do anything to claim a skill?**
No. As soon as their completion is recorded, SuperPath adds the attached skills to their profile automatically.

**What if the same skill is on several learnings I complete?**
You keep the skill once, and SuperPath increases the count each time you earn it again, so it reflects how often it's been reinforced.

**Can a skill be added without completing a learning?**
Yes — an Owner or Admin can add a skill to a person directly from their profile. See "How to Add a Skill to a Person".

## Who can do this
Earning skills happens automatically for any learner who completes learning that has skills attached — no special role is required. Deciding which skills are attached to learning is done by the people who manage that content (see "How to Attach Skills to Learning Content").