# Add skills and a resume

Give an employee skills with their levels, add resume lines with their dates, keep certifications with their validity, and find who has which skill in the skills inventory.

The **Resume** tab of an employee holds two things side by side: the resume on the left, made of lines grouped in sections, and the skills on the right, each with a level. Both are kept by the HR team and read by everyone who may open the employee.

## Before you start {#before-you-start}

- Adding skills and resume lines to any employee needs the **Officer: Manage all employees** right on **Employees**.
- The skill types, their skills and their levels are set in **Employees/Configuration/Employee/Skill Types**, with the **Administrator** right. The demo has types such as **Languages**, with the levels A1 to C2, and **Soft Skills**.
- These tabs exist while **Skills Management** is ticked in [Employees settings](employees-settings#skills).

## Add a skill {#skill}

1. Open the employee in **Employees/Employees**, here a new one, `Employees demo: Huda Al-Rashed`, saved once.
2. Open the **Resume** tab and click **Pick a skill from the list**.
3. In **Update Skills**, choose the **Category**, then the **Skill**, then the **Skill Level**: here **Languages**, **English**, **B2**.
4. Click **Save & Close**, or **Save & New** to add another skill at once.

The skill appears on the right under its type, with the level and a bar of its progress. Each type has an **ADD** button for another skill of the same type, and each line a bin to remove it. **Timeline** opens a chart of the level of each skill over time.

## Add a resume line {#resume-line}

1. Click **Create Resume Lines**.
2. Choose the section at the top, here **Education**. The others are **Other Experience**, **Training**, **Side Projects** and **Internal Certification**.
3. Type the **Title**, here `Employees demo: Cedar Hill Business School`.
4. Set the **Duration**: the first date is today by default; type `01/09/2016`, then `30/06/2020` as the end. An empty end reads **Forever**, and the line then shows "Current".
5. Add a file in **Certificate** or a **Description** if needed.

![A resume line of the Education section, with its title and its dates.](https://jaah.app/web/image/13669-efaada8a/employees-add-skills-and-a-resume-resume_line-en.png)

6. Click **Save & Close**, then save the employee.

![The resume on the left, the skills on the right, each line under its section or skill type.](https://jaah.app/web/image/13671-bd28c42f/employees-add-skills-and-a-resume-resume_and_skills-en.png)

The first section of the resume needs no line of yours: once the employee has a **Job Title**, it shows the jobs held in the company, read from the dated records of the employee, as the [First steps](first-steps-with-employees#skill) show.

## Keep certifications {#certifications}

The **Certifications** tab lists the skills of a type marked as a certification, here **Certifications**, with **From** and **To** dates. **Add a line** adds one. **Employees/Learning/Certifications** gathers the certifications of every employee. When a job position requires a certification, a daily job asks the people concerned to upload it: [Employees automations](employees-automations#certifications).

## Find who has a skill {#inventory}

Open **Employees/Reporting/Skills/Skills Inventory**. The skills of every employee are grouped by skill type, then by skill; each group gives the number of lines and the average progress of the levels. Open a group to see the people and their levels, or switch to the pivot view to cross skills and employees.

![The Skills Inventory groups every employee skill by skill type, then by skill.](https://jaah.app/web/image/13675-c52307e7/employees-add-skills-and-a-resume-skills_inventory-en.png)

## FAQ {#faq}

### A skill is missing from the list. {#missing-skill}

Add it to its type in **Employees/Configuration/Employee/Skill Types**, or ask someone with the **Administrator** right. The window shows only the skills of the type chosen in **Category**.

### Why does the Resume tab show no job of the company? {#no-job}

The first section appears once the employee has a **Job Title** on the **Work** tab.

### Can the employee update their own skills? {#own-skills}

Every internal user can read the skills and resume lines of all employees. A person whose employee record is linked to their user can also add, change and remove their own; the skills of the others stay read-only for them. The HR officers change everyone's.

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- Source: https://jaah.app/docs/employees/add-skills-and-a-resume
- Updated: 2026-10-28
- Version: Employees 19.0.1.1
- Verified: 2026-10-28