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In the world of client work, it’s no surprise that your people are your biggest asset. But when you're juggling multiple projects, clients, and timelines, it can be hard to know if you’re using that asset wisely. Who has the right skillset to lead this new initiative? Who’s certified in Adobe After Effects? Do we have enough React developers available next week?
Enter Skills — a new way to add even more colour and specificity to your team’s talents, assisting smarter resourcing decisions.
What are Skills?
Skills are capabilities or areas of expertise that are associated with an individual user, beyond their Role. It maps out everyone’s unique capabilities helping you take full inventory on the breadth and depth of your team’s talents.
Whether it’s technical abilities like “Python” or “SQL,” or niche talents like “Drone Photography,” Skills allows you to:
Create a library of skills that reflects the needs and makeup of your business
Assign teammates to the skills they possess
See skills at a glance when resourcing and allocating work
Identify and close gaps before it blocks delivery
Match the right work with the right people for guaranteed quality
Upskill and grow your team, showing dedication to your people
It’s all about making your project and resource planning faster, efficient, and teed up for success.
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Why Skills will help your business sing
Resource planning doesn’t just mean balancing workloads — it means understanding your team’s capabilities. We’ve heard from customers across industries who said they were relying on spreadsheets, a Google form, or their memory (risky!) to track who could do what.
With Skills, you have a centralized, dynamic way to capture and use that knowledge so you can:
Improve project outcomes with better skill-to-task matching
Build stronger teams by recognizing strengths and gaps
Nail hiring and staffing decisions to have a robust pool of talent
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Skills and Teamwork.com. A perfect match
If you’ve kept your eyes on this space recently, you’ve likely also noticed recent releases including Roles and Placeholders. Good news is Skills work in harmony with both, making Teamwork.com the holy grail for all things resource management.
To Skill or to Role... why not both?
To really mimic your company structure in Teamwork.com, assign your people a Role first, and then add Skills. This will help you stay as organized as possible, while missing no details. Bonus points if you set up Teams too!
You likely have multiple people holding the same Role within your organization. Add Skills to differentiate between them so you never get confused again.
Planning paradise
No more context switching, tab hopping, or relying on tribal knowledge. Filter by Skills across all parts of the Planning tab: Overview, Workload Planner, and Resource Scheduler.
Not into filters? No problem. Just hover over the badge icon beside each user for their Skills to conveniently pop-up. This carries into the Placeholder experience when transferring work to a named resource.
Tips from the experts
Stack your filters, Role first then Skill, to narrow down your search and find the perfect match for a job. For example, “Junior Developer”, then “CSS”.
To indicate level of proficiency within a Skill, create multiple skills with different names like “Figma 1”, “Figma 2”, and “Figma 3”.
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What this means for you
With Skills, you get more than just a directory of what your team can do. You get:
Better visibility: Understand your team’s full capabilities, not just their job titles.
Faster resourcing: Quickly find the right people without having to ask around.
Smarter assignment: Spot who’s got the right skills and availability — no more guesswork or memory games!
Stronger project outcomes: Build teams that are set up for success from day one.
A better culture: Skills are seen, valued, and used — helping your team grow and thrive.
Start using Skills today and let your team’s talent do the talking. Skills is available to users on our Scale subscription. Want to take advantage of this feature? Drop a quick note to sales@teamwork.com and we’ll be in touch!
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