Modeling an employee's percent fit for another position

If you are considering promoting or transferring an employee, you can compare the employee's talent profile (skills, competencies, education, and credentials) with the Desired and Essential success profile defined for the position of interest.

You have no control over the qualifications used in calculating the percent fit for an employee's current position. The organization's percent fit settings determine the types of qualifications to be included in the calculations and whether only essential qualifications should be included.

For example, if a position includes Networking as a Desired skill, and the organization percent-fit settings exclude skills that are not designated Essential, then Networking will not be included in the comparison between the position's qualifications and the employee's qualifications.

Note: Use this functionality if you are considering the employee for a transfer, promotion, or new work assignment.

Sign in as Manager.
Select My Staff, select the employee, and select View Full Profile.

or

Select Manager > Develop Employees > Development Plans, and open the development plan for the employee for whom to calculate a percent fit.
Click the Fit Analysis tab and click Model Fit Analysis.

The last modeled fit analysis that was performed displays.
To model a percent fit for another position, click New Model.
Specify this information:

Select Position For Comparison

Select the position to compare the employee to.

Include Only Essential Qualifications

Select this check box to include only the position's essential qualifications in the calculations.

or

Clear this check box to include all of the position's qualifications in the calculations.
Click OK.
The results of the analysis display.
- At the top of the form, the position name displays with values for the Percent Fit and Percent Fit With Margin analyses.
  
  Note: Your organization determines whether you can view both types of calculations or only one of them.
- A spider graph compares the skills and competencies of the employee with those of the position. The graph can also be displayed as a bar graph or a list.
  
  Note: The graph is based on Percent Fit only.
- For each type of qualification included in the percent fit calculation, a list of the qualifications included in the position displays with this information:
  
  Note: You will see only the qualification types for which your organization configured percent fit calculations.
  - The Essential column displays whether the qualification is essential for the position.
  - For skills and competencies, the Level columns indicate the position's required competency level for the qualification (if any) and the employee's competency level for the qualification.
  - For credentials, the list only displays the credential required by the position.
  - For education, the list displays the required education and the highest education level attained by the employee.
  - (Displays if your organization is configured to let you view Percent Fit results) The Gap column indicates whether the employee matches (Match), does not match (Below), or exceeds (Exceed) the job requirements. This occurs when the calculation is configured to require an absolute match.
    
    For credentials, Gap will be Match if the resource has the credential, or Below if the resource does not have the credential.
    
    To calculate the Percent Fit value, the system divides the total number of qualifications in the Gap column that are a Match by the total number of qualifications. Exceed values are not considered a match.
  - (Displays if your organization is configured to let you view Percent Fit With Margin results) The Gap With Margin column displays whether the employee matches (Match), does not match (Below), or exceeds (Exceed) the job requirements. This occurs when match margins are taken into account.
    
    Match margins are a way for administrators to include as matched results that do not exactly match the position requirements. For example, assume the organization is configured to accept a match margin of one level below and one level higher than the required position level for skills. If a position requires a rating of 3 for a skill and an employee's level for that skill is 2, the Gap result will be Below and the Gap With Margin result will be Match. If another employee has a level of 4, the Gap result will be Exceed and the Gap With Margin result will be Match.
    
    To calculate the Percent Fit with Margin value, the system divides the total number of qualifications in the Gap With Margin column that are Match by the total number of qualifications. Exceed values are not considered a match. Therefore, in either of the above example, the Percent With Margin score will be higher than the Percent Fit score.
    
    Note: For credentials, the Gap With Margin will display as a match if the Include For Resources organization setting is selected.
  - For qualifications that have a Below result in the Gap column, a Suggested Activities link indicates that there is a catalog activity with an outcome that would help the employee meet the qualification requirement. Click the Suggested Activities link to view and print the suggested activities.