# Skills Management **Maica Client Care** allows you to manage a range of Skills across your team as well as use those Skills when [rostering](https://kb.maica.com.au/general-information/client-care-settings/rostering-management) resources. Skills are a generic list of items that you can specify across a configurable set of categories, such as `Driving a Car` or `Administering Medicine` but you could also use Skills to specify qualifications such as `Working with Children Check` or `Qualified Level 3 Nurse`. ### Managing Generic Organisational Skills To get started with Skills, simply navigate to the Skills tab within Maica Client Care and click the `New` button.

This will present a standard Salesforce user interface to add the records; keep in mind that this is a generic list of all your organisational Skills. We will learn later in this article about how to assign these Skills to the Resource profile.

To add a new Skill, simply add a unique `Name` to the record and select the `Category` to which you would like to allocate the Skill. {% hint style="info" %} `Category` names can be changed using the standard Salesforce setup via the Object Manager. {% endhint %} ### Assigning Skills to Resources Once your organisational Skills are set up, you can now allocate them to your Resources (Care Workers) by opening a Resource Profile and navigating to the Skills related list, as shown below.

To allocate an existing organisational Skill to a Resource, simply click the `New` button in the top right hand side and complete the required details, including the following data columns.

Field Name	Field Type	Notes
Skill	Lookup to `Skill`	This is a lookup to the unique organisational `Skill` which has been configured as per the above.
Resource	Lookup to `Resource`	This will be preset to the `Resource` profile you are currently managing.
Start Date	Date	A `Start Date` can optionally be configured to limit the time a Resource Skill is active for.
End Date	Date	An `End Date` can optionally be configured to limit the time a Resource Skill is active for.
Description	Text	Allows you to take any additional notes on the Skill if required.

The screen below shows you what a completed Resource Skill could look like and this is then used when [rostering](https://kb.maica.com.au/general-information/client-care-settings/rostering-management) Resources to Appointments.