How evaluation cycles produce skill ratings
Evaluation cycles configured as 360 produce per-skill ratings: peers and managers rate the user on the skills in a Feedback 360 Skillset. These ratings feed the cross-cutting skills engine alongside Learn, Role-Play, and Recognition signals.
How does evaluation produce skill signals?
A standard evaluation cycle scores a user on goals and overall performance. It does not produce per-skill data on its own.
The skill signal comes from a specific cycle configuration: Is this a 360 evaluation? set to on, with a Feedback 360 Skillset selected. In that mode, each evaluator (peer or manager, depending on the peer type) rates the user on every skill in the chosen skillset. Each rating becomes a signal against that skill for the user.
How do I configure a cycle to produce skill signals?
Go to Modules > Evaluation & Careers > Evaluation Cycles.
Select Add Cycle.
Fill in the cycle details (Cycle Name, dates, groups).
Turn on Is this a 360 evaluation?.
In Feedback 360 Skillset, select the skillset whose skills you want evaluators to rate.
Save the cycle.
Without a selected skillset, the cycle runs as a standard evaluation and produces no skill data.
How do I build the skillset that the cycle uses?
Go to Modules > Evaluation & Careers > Career settings.
Open Skillsets.
Use Create a new Skillset to start a new one. Give it a Skillset Name.
Inside the skillset, use Add Skill to attach skills. Each skill has a Skill Name and optional Skill Tags.
Save the skillset.
The skillset can be reused across cycles. Changes to a skillset apply to new cycles only. Existing cycles keep the version of the skillset that existed when they were created.
What are Job Category Skill Scales?
Skill ratings need a scale. A scale defines the available rating values (for example, Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced / Expert). The same skill can use different scales depending on the job category. That mapping lives in Job Category Skill Scales, inside each skill under Career settings.
Open the relevant skill from the Skills list under Career settings.
Find the Job Category Skill Scales section.
For each job category listed, pick the scale that applies from the dropdown.
This lets a tenant define one scale for engineering skills and a different scale for sales skills without duplicating the skill itself.
Who evaluates the user on each skill?
360 cycles let you assign peers per user. Open the cycle, go to Cycle Users, find the user, and select Manage Peers. Each peer has a Peer Type (for example, Manager, Reports, Lateral, Report). Peer type does not change the skill-signal pipeline, but the engine and the dashboard distinguish ratings by peer type for downstream analysis.
Peers see only the skills in the cycle's Feedback 360 Skillset. Their ratings flow into the engine as evidence records against the user, scoped to that skill.
Where do I see the resulting skill ratings?
Three places:
Inside the cycle, in the per-user evaluation results.
In the user's skill profile (the per-user view served by the skills API), where the evaluation evidence is combined with signals from Learn, Role-Play, and Recognition.
In Skills Mapping > Dashboard, in aggregate.
The cycle view is the audit trail. The cross-cutting view is what the chatbot and the talent intelligence APIs return.