Assigning work using Skill sets

In order to provide more precision when assigning users to jobs, Skill sets were introduced in Plint Core in late 2022.

How it works

Skill sets are a combination of Source language, Target language and Job type. These criteria have always been available as separate properties when matching people to jobs, but the standard implementation is a "mix-and-match" solution where these properties can be combined freely. 

Using Standard criteria

User A has two target languages, two source languages and three job types. This makes for twelve possible combinations. There is no way to specify that User A can only do a certain job type in a specific language combination. 

Using Skill sets

With Skill sets, you specify a combination of these three criteria, e.g. "Subtitling into Swedish from English". When a job requires the user to match all three criteria, the user needs a skill set with all three. 

Example of user with four skill sets. The fourth one has English as the target language. With standard data, it would be impossible to add English for this specific job type without also making the user eligible for other job types into English. 

How to activate Skill sets

This is done on project level, using the "Assignment logic" dropdown. Setting this to "Skill sets" will affect all jobs on the project with criteria which include Source language, Target language and Job type.  

How to add Skill sets to users

This is done on the Languages tab when editing user information. 

Applying criteria with Skill sets

As always, the rules dictating who can do a certain job reside on Job level. In the example below, eligible users would need a skill set with the same Job type and Target language as the job. Note that this job does not include Source language among the criteria. This is perfectly possible and allows you to determine how specific you want to be.  

Finding people based on Skill sets

When filtering users under People, select the "Skill sets" option and set it to Yes. This will affect three other filter criteria: Source language, Target language and User job type. Searching for this kind of data will now be confined to Skill sets. 

Please note that you cannot search for multiple languages or job types when using the Skill sets option. 

The logic is the same as when you apply the assignment criteria: omit a field to make a "wildcard" search. For example, search only on Target language and User job type. This will ignore the Source language factor and thus give you more results.