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title: Adding a job profile to the employee
description: Adding a job profile to an employee identifies the position of the employee in the organization, further identifying the skills.
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# Adding a job profile to the employee

Adding a job profile to an employee identifies the position of the employee in the organization, further identifying the skills.

## Before you begin

If you want to add or update employee job profile details manually, follow the procedure.

Role required: sn\_skills\_int.job\_arch\_admin, sn\_skills\_int.admin

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** and type `sn_employee_position.LIST` in the search bar.

2.  Select **New**.

3.  In the Employee job profile form, fill in the fields.

<table id="table_gtp_rnh_rfc"><thead><tr><th>

Fields

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Employee profile

</td><td>

The employee to link the job profile.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Job profile

</td><td>

The job profile relevant to the selected employee.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Location

</td><td>

The location of the employee.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Employment type

</td><td>

If the employee is permanent or on a contract.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Location type

</td><td>

If the location is remote or flexible.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Primary

</td><td>

Indicates if the job profile is the primary job profile for the employee.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Work description

</td><td>

General description of the work the employee is expected to perform.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Start date

</td><td>

The beginning date of this job for the employee.

</td></tr><tr><td>

End date

</td><td>

The end date of this job for the employee.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Job family

</td><td>

The category of job the employee belongs to.**Note:** If you don't see this field, add it to the form by configuring the form layout.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Source

</td><td>

The source of the job profiles.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>    **Note:** Employees can see suggestions while selecting their role specialty in the Career tab on the ESC portal only when the following requirements are met.

    -   The Primary field must be checked.
    -   The job family field must contain a value.
    -   the job selected is the current job of the employee.
4.  Select **Submit**.