Enterprises that make full use of the Oracle HRMS competency functions may create or import many competency definitions. For example, you can define the competencies required by each grade of every job or position in your enterprise. For ease of management and retrieval, you can group competency definitions into competency types. The types themselves are for you to define. For example, you can define competency types to differentiate various skill sets, such as management skills, language skills, neonatal nursing skills, retail management skills, and so on. Alternatively, you can define a competency type for each job or position, such as sales manager, department manager, sales assistant, area manager, and so on. A competency can belong to more than one type, and overlap between types is likely to occur.
You can retrieve competencies by competency type when searching for competencies:
In the Find Competencies window
To include in the Competencies section of an appraisal when defining a competency assessment template
See: Assessment Templates
You can update a competency-type definition unless you have included the competencies belonging to a type in a current assessment template. This restriction prevents use of the type in multiple templates giving different results.