Adding Skills from Education

To add skills you used or learned during your education, you must first enter the information about the educational experience. You can enter skills from any educational experience on SkillLab, including school, university, vocational and technical training, or even online courses that you have taken.

Entering Information About Your Educational Experience

These steps show how you enter information about your educational experience:

1. Make sure you are on the Skills tab by clicking on the Skills tab icon at the bottom of your screen like this:

2. Click on Add Skills and then choose Education.

3. Choose the type of your educational experience. Click on Formal degree if you receive a degree from a school or university. If you receive a certificate after taking an offline or online course, or training, click on Courses, trainings, and MOOCs. Read the next step under each section below.

Entering Information for Formal Degree

1. If you click on Formal degree, the next step is to choose the country where you studied and your degree title. You can choose from the available list. 

Click Next to continue.

2. Now, you will be asked to enter the name of your school or university and your study field. You can enter any name even if they are not shown on the list.

Continue with Next to go to the final step.

3. The final step is to enter the start date and the end date of your educational experience. You can also click Ongoing to indicate that you are still studying the subject at the moment.

When your education has an end date, also choose whether you finished your study or not. 

When you are done, click Save.

4. Now you are ready to add skills you got from your Formal Degree. Scroll down to read about how to add skills from your educational experience.

Entering Information for Courses, Training, and MOOCs

1. After clicking on Courses, Trainings, and MOOCs, enter the name of the course you took and the organisation providing the course certificate.

Click Next to go to the next step.

2. Enter the completion date of your course/training. If your certificate has an expiration date, check the question "Does this expire?" and enter the expiration date.

Finally, click Save.

Adding Skills

1. Once you entered the education information, you will see a list of skills under it.

Click on the next to the skills that you learned or used in the experience.

2. Then, indicates how often you use the skill on the 5 points scale between rarely and always.

3. Click Add Skills.

This is how you do it: 

4. Sometimes, you do not find any relevant skills to your educational experience on the list. To shuffle a new list, click None of the above.

5. When you have clicked None of the above several times, SkillLab will ask you to edit or add related titles to your educational experience. SkillLab does this to build a better skill list that matches your education. 

Follow these steps if you see this question on your screen.

1. You can click Looks good when you have no title to add.

2. If you see any suggested titles that are not relevant to your educational experience, you can deselect the suggested title(s) by clicking on them.

2. Alternatively, if you see any suggested title(s) that are relevant for your experience, click on the  next to the title(s).

3. You can also click Add more titles and type any keyword to search for a specific tag from the list. Click next to the specific tag you want to add from the list.

4. Click Add.

5. When you have finished adding tags, click Looks good.

SkillLab will show you a new skill recommendation. See the image below for the example:

6. Keep adding the skills you use or learn from the educational experience until the progress bar above the skill recommendation is completed.