We’ve released an update with major improvements to the employee profile, role templates, exports, and overall usability.
The employee profile has been rebuilt into a single, streamlined page with much clearer structure and several important new capabilities. One of the biggest improvements is that it is now much easier to understand which skills belong to the employee and which are being used for comparison.
To make this clearer, the profile is now split into two dedicated tabs: Profile Skills and Compare. The Profile Skills tab focuses on the employee’s actual skills, making it much clearer what is part of the employee’s own profile.
The Compare tab provides a clear comparison between the employee’s skills and role requirements, and it also gives users more flexibility in what they compare. Instead of only comparing the employee to their current role, users can now also compare the profile to another employee profile or to another role.
This removes the previous confusion where profile skills and role requirements were mixed together in a way that was difficult to understand. The profile properties side panel has also been significantly improved. Instead of roles appearing only as plain text beneath the employee’s name, current roles are now displayed clearly in the side panel, including multiple roles where applicable. This makes them much easier to view without truncation, and they are now clickable so users can jump directly to the relevant role page.
Overall, this redesign not only simplifies the employee profile, but adds meaningful new comparison functionality and makes the whole experience much easier to understand and use.
Role templates now have a more spacious, modern layout with a resizable main area and a dedicated sidebar for properties. That sidebar now surfaces much more useful information at a glance that was previously hard to find or not visible at all. For example, it shows the skill-type breakdown, such as technical and behavioral skills, and lets users click those types to filter the required skill list immediately. It also shows whether a role template is already being used, by whom, and in which units, making it much easier to understand the impact of changes.
The sidebar also makes benchmark management much more direct. Users can immediately see which benchmark is connected to a template, and if none is connected, they get a quick and clear way to add one right away. Altogether, this gives users much more useful information and lets them take action directly from the page.
Skill assessments are now much easier to distinguish from one another. Previously, the assessment title was automatically based only on the year, which became confusing when multiple assessments were created in the same year. Now, assessments are labeled with their full creation date in the user’s local format across cards, breadcrumbs, and progress charts, making them much easier to identify at a glance.
In addition, when creating a skill assessment, the related role name is now displayed next to the progress bar, so managers and employees can immediately see which role the assessment relates to.
The experience for adding skills to a role template has been completely redesigned. Instead of a minimal interface that showed very little detail, users now get a richer modal experience. When searching for skills, they can expand an item to see more helpful information before adding it, including the description, the source, and the skill type. This makes it much easier to understand exactly what is being added.
The same improved interaction pattern is now used consistently in other places as well. When adding skills in the employee profile, users get the same richer experience with expandable details. The same also applies when connecting a benchmark: users can search, open an item, and read more about it before deciding, making it much easier to choose the right benchmark with confidence.
Overall, these flows are now much more useful, informative, and consistent than before.
Role and employee CSV/Excel exports now include all company-defined custom attributes as separate columns, helping ensure that no relevant data is lost during export.
Thanks for using Appose. We hope you enjoy this update as much as we enjoyed building it. More to come.
