# Skills & Certifications: capability on your shared people records

> Track skills, levels and certifications against the person record, so staffing a project and spotting an expiring certificate read from the same place.

Source: https://www.cordango.com/capabilities/skills/
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# Skills & Certifications

What people can do, and which certificates are about to lapse. Available as a ready-to-use Cordango capability.

[See Cordango in action →](https://www.cordango.com/contact/) [How it runs →](https://www.cordango.com/capabilities/skills/#how)

Skills & Certifications People

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What people can do, and which certificates are about to lapse

## What it builds on.

Most companies keep this in a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet is wrong within a quarter because it is a copy of the staff list. Skills here are fields on the person, so somebody joining or leaving does not require a second update.

It matters most when staffing. Finding a person who holds a valid certificate, is not on holiday and is not already booked is one question against one set of records rather than three lookups against three tools.

-   USES People records, including contractors and partner staff
-   USES Field-level permissions, so rates and reviews stay separate
-   USES Date handling, so expiry is a real date and not a note

[The People foundation →](https://www.cordango.com/people/)

Available from the start Skills & Certifications

-   SKILL Skills with levels, on the person
-   CERT Certifications with issue and expiry dates
-   FIND Search by what someone can actually do
-   WARN Visibility of what is about to lapse

## How it actually runs.

1 

#### A skill is recorded

On the person, with a level, by whoever is entitled to set it.

2 

#### A certificate gets an expiry

A real date, so it can be reported on rather than remembered.

3 

#### Staffing searches on it

Who holds this certification, is free next month and has done this kind of work before.

4 

#### Expiry becomes visible

A lapsing certificate shows up before it lapses, on the person and to the people responsible for them.

## What you can change.

Use the standard version where it fits. Change only the parts where your company is genuinely different.

DATA 

### Your skill taxonomy

A framework of your own, or a flat list. Levels if you use them, none if you do not.

RULES 

### Who may assert what

Self-declared, manager-confirmed, or evidence-backed. Decide per skill type.

STATES 

### Certificate states

Valid, expiring, lapsed, renewed. Match what your auditors ask for.

VIEW 

### Per-role views

A delivery lead searches for availability. HR sees the development picture. The person sees their own.

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## What it works with.

-   [**360 Feedback** Feedback cycles that write to the person, not to a survey tool](https://www.cordango.com/capabilities/360-feedback/)

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## One foundation. Everything on top of it.

Skills does not maintain a separate roster of who works here. Skills, levels and expiry dates are fields on the People records that staffing and delivery already read.

[See Cordango in action →](https://www.cordango.com/contact/) [All capabilities →](https://www.cordango.com/capabilities/)