Enabling the essential status of an equivalent qualification for jobs

Before you enable an essential equivalent qualification for jobs, you must add an equivalent qualification for a job.

See Adding equivalent qualifications to a job and position.

After you enable the essential status on an equivalent qualification for a job, the essential status for the employee's talent profile is displayed.

The qualification is included as part of the percent fit calculation for a job after you perform these actions:
  • Configure the essential status of a qualification in percent fit calculations for an organization

    See the Infor HR Talent User and Administration Library (Cloud and On-premises) and select Administrator > HR Talent Setup and Administration > Organizational structure > Defining percent fit rules and match margins ranges.

  • Enable the essential status on an equivalent qualification for a job

For information about qualifications, see the Infor HR Talent User and Administration Library (Cloud and On-premises) and select Administrator > HR Talent Resources Setup and Administration > Resource qualifications maintenance.

You must ensure that the job qualification is active.

  1. Select Jobs And Positions.
  2. On Jobs, select a job and click Open.
  3. Click Qualifications.
  4. Select a job qualification and click Open.
    You can open a job's competency, skill, credential, education records, and experience.
  5. Select an effective date.
  6. Select the Essential check box.
    When you enable automatic synchronization of the essential status for qualifications with equivalent qualifications, this check box is selected. If the qualification is in essential status, Yes is displayed in the Essential field. If the qualification is not in essential status, No is displayed in the Essential field.

    See Updating qualification configuration.

  7. Click Equivalent Qualifications.
    When you enable automatic synchronization of essential status for qualifications with equivalent qualifications, the status for equivalent qualifications is displayed in the Essential column.
  8. Click Save.