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Skill-Based Search Available in Enhanced People Search
General Availability Recommended Customer Configured Impact: Medium AI Enriched
Description

With Growth Portfolio enabled, you can now allow users to search for employees by skills, attributes, and proficiency levels in the enhanced People Search experience.See More

Detailed Description

With Growth Portfolio enabled, you can now allow users to search for employees by skills, attributes, and proficiency levels in the enhanced People Search experience. The enhanced People Search now supports searching for individuals based on skills, attributes, and proficiency levels from their Growth Portfolio in the Advanced Search widget. For Advanced Search , skill-based search currently applies only to Directory Search . Here are the highlights: On the search criteria page, users can select multiple skills in a single search and specify different proficiency levels for each skill.

Impact Assessment

This change affects SAP SuccessFactors implementations by introducing updated behavior or new capabilities. Implementation teams should review the change and assess whether configuration adjustments, user training, or regression testing are required. A targeted review of affected processes is recommended before the release goes live.

Test Recommendations
• Test the complete new hire onboarding process end-to-end in the updated solution. • Verify that all onboarding tasks, notifications, and documents are generated correctly. • Test skills search, assignment, and display in affected modules (People Profile, Growth Portfolio, Career Worksheet). • Verify that skills-based recommendations and filters function correctly. • Test role-based permissions for affected roles to ensure correct data access after the change.
Product: Platform
Modules: User Experience
Feature: Directory Search; People Search
Reference: ISH-27714
Version: 1H 2026
Valid as Of: May 15, 2026
Latest Revision: Apr 03, 2026
Affected Areas:
Job Architecture & Skills Career Development AI & Business AI