What Are Skills in SuperPath

In this article:

• Overview
• Optional proficiency levels
• Where skills are used
• Skills synced from your HR system
• Things to keep in mind
• FAQs
• Who can do this

Overview

Skills let you describe the capabilities your people are building — such as "Project Management", "Customer Service" or "Data Analysis" — and connect them to the learning your people complete. You create a catalogue of skills for your account, attach the relevant skills to your learning content, and SuperPath records a skill against a person automatically when they complete that learning. Over time this builds a picture of who knows what across your organisation.

Optional proficiency levels

When you create a skill you can choose whether it carries proficiency levels. Turn on Include levels and SuperPath creates the skill at all four levels — beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert — so you can attach the version that matches the depth of a particular learning. Leave Include levels off and the skill is created as a single skill with no level. Levels are optional: use them where the distinction matters and skip them where a plain skill is enough.

Those four levels apply to skills you create in SuperPath. A skill synced from your HR system brings its own proficiency ladder instead, with whatever level names you have defined there.

Where skills are used

Skills appear in three places across SuperPath:

• On learning content, Pathways and Events — you attach skills to a piece of Library content, a Pathway or an Event using the Skills learnt field. When a learner completes that learning, the skill is recorded against them automatically.
• Directly on a person's profile — you can add a skill to (or remove one from) a person from their profile in the People area, without waiting for them to complete a learning.
• On Roadmap competency levels — skills can be attached to the competency-level cells of a Roadmap. That is covered separately in the Roadmaps documentation and is out of scope for this article.

Skills synced from your HR system

If you use HiBob, you can mirror the Skills catalogue you already maintain there into SuperPath rather than building it again by hand. SuperPath reads your Bob catalogue once a day and keeps the skills in step with it.

A synced skill behaves like any other skill once it is here: you attach it to learning, and your people earn it on completion. The differences are that it carries a plug icon wherever it appears, it brings its own category, description and proficiency ladder across, and it is read-only in SuperPath because your HR system is the source of truth. See "How to Sync Your HiBob Skills Catalogue" for the setup.

Things to keep in mind

• Skills are a custom catalogue you build for your own account: you decide which skills exist and what they are called. You can also sync a catalogue in from HiBob instead of creating skills by hand.
• A skill's name must be unique within your account; you cannot create two skills with the same name.
• Proficiency levels are fixed to the four values beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert for the skills you create here. Skills synced from your HR system use the levels defined there, and each of those levels can carry its own description.
• Categories and descriptions only come from a synced skill. Skills you create in SuperPath have a name and an optional level, and the catalogue hides the Description and Category columns until you have synced skills that use them.
• SuperPath does not currently support endorsements, ratings, or self-assessment. Skills are simply attached to learning and to people.

FAQs

Do I have to use proficiency levels?
No. Levels are optional per skill. Turn Include levels on to create the skill at beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert, or leave it off for a single skill with no level.

How does a person actually get a skill?
Most commonly by completing a piece of learning that has the skill attached — SuperPath records it automatically. You can also add a skill to a person directly from their profile.

Can I rename a skill after creating it?
There is no edit option for a skill in the Skills area. If a skill's name is wrong, delete it and create a new one with the correct name.

What is the plug icon next to some of my skills?
It marks a skill that is synced from your HR system. Those skills are managed there and cannot be edited or deleted in SuperPath, so any change needs to be made in your HR system.

Who can do this

Anyone signed in can read about and view skills relevant to them. Managing the skills catalogue (creating and deleting skills) is limited to Owners, Admins, Managers, Content Managers and Instructors; People Managers, Employees and Restricted users cannot manage the catalogue. Adding or removing a skill directly on a person's profile is limited to Owners and Admins. See the related how-to articles for the exact steps.

Updated on: 02/09/2026