When you open Career Explorer for the first time, you're prompted to confirm your career profile and add your existing skills and proficiency levels. Making sure that your profile and skills are correct helps Career Explorer find opportunities that are right for you. You’re also prompted to set your preferences for sharing your career activity with your peer community.
Your progress for the getting started screens is shown in a sidebar for your reference. Any skills that you add are also shown in the sidebar, where you can quickly remove a skill or edit the proficiency level for a skill, if needed.
Before You Begin: It's recommended that you review and update the information in your career profile before accessing Career Explorer.
To get started with Career Explorer:
- Go to Careers > Career Explorer and click Start.
- In the What kind of work do you do? drop-down list, select your current occupation, if not already populated.
- Confirm that the details from your career profile are correct, and then click Continue. If needed, you can click the Dayforce Profile link to update the information from the Profile feature.
- In the What skills do you excel at? and What skills do you want to have? screens, take one or more of the following actions, and then click Continue. Your profile needs to include at least five skills that you already have and three skills that you want to have, but adding more skills is recommended.
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Actions for skills Action Description Add a new skill
Search for a skill or review the suggested skills, and then click Add skill for the skill you want to add. Select a proficiency level and then click Add skill. After you add a skill, the Skill added label is shown for it in the skills list and the skill is shown in the progress sidebar for your reference.
You can use the Filter by occupation field to help narrow the results when searching for a skill. Many of the available skills include an Also known as section with alternate names for the skill. These alternate names can help to improve the search results and allow you to find skills even if you don’t know the exact name in the skills list.
Update a skill Click the edit icon for the skill in the sidebar, update your proficiency level, and then click Save. Remove a skill
Click the edit icon for the skill in the sidebar, and then click Remove skill.
- Set your preferences for sharing information with your peer community, and then click Continue. For more information, see Your Peer Community Sharing Preferences.
- Select an option to specify the types of opportunities that you'd like to explore. Depending on your selection, one of the following occurs:
- For Advancement opportunities or Career change opportunities, Career Explorer suggests career opportunities that you can save for later or create a development plan for right away. See Explore Career Opportunities.
- Note: The suggested opportunities don’t reflect current job openings in the organization. These opportunities are possible positions only, which might not have a current job posting.
- For Skill building opportunities, Career Explorer shows you a list of your current skills and new skills that you can create a development plan for. See Build Plans to Develop Your Skills.