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description: Skills allow users to share information about their professional expertise. With skills, users can discover, collaborate with, and endorse others based on their knowledge.
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# Skills Overview

Skills allow users to share information about their professional expertise. With skills, users can discover, collaborate with, and endorse others based on their knowledge.

### Required Editions

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          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Salesforce Classic</td>

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            <p style="margin-bottom:0;" id="collab_skills__d790e36"><a name="collab_skills__d790e36"><!-- --></a><strong>WDC</strong> is available for existing WDC customers in <strong>Professional
                Edition</strong>, <strong>Enterprise Edition</strong>, <strong>Performance Edition</strong>, <strong>Unlimited
                Edition</strong>, and <strong>Developer Edition</strong>.</p>
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![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_core-264-0-0-production-enus/3c339c40-ca6c-49ba-9c6e-684be7a55f80/images/icon_important.png)

Important Starting in Spring ’22, WDC isn’t available to new Salesforce customers. For existing customers, WDC features and records from Badges, Skills, and Thanks aren’t affected and will remain available in the application beyond Spring ’22. WDC Goals, Coaching, Feedback, Performance, and Rewards features won’t appear in the application anymore, and records created previously will no longer be accessible.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_core-264-0-0-production-enus/3c339c40-ca6c-49ba-9c6e-684be7a55f80/images/icon_note.png)

Note On May 1, 2020, we rebranded this suite. It's now called WDC.

The Skills feature makes it easier to identify experts in different areas. Users can add or remove skills on their Chatter profile page or on record detail pages, and other users can endorse those skills. Use the global search bar to search for experts with specific skills.

![Skills on profile overview](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_core-264-0-0-production-enus/3c339c40-ca6c-49ba-9c6e-684be7a55f80/sales_core/images/workcom/skills_profile.png)

- **[Add a Skill Via Record Detail Pages](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.usersetup_skill_add.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Add skills to share your professional expertise.
- **[Remove a Skill Via Record Detail Pages](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.usersetup_skill_remove.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Remove a skill if it no longer applies.
- **[Endorse a Skill Via Record Detail Pages](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.usersetup_skill_endorse.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Endorse a user’s skill to promote their expertise in a specific area.

#### See Also

- [Enable or Disable WDC Settings](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.workcom_settings_setup.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "On the WDC Settings page, you can enable and disable features like Thanks and Skills for your organization.")
- [Skills Customization](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.workcom_skills_customization.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can change object permissions for the skill and endorsement objects to suit the needs of your organization.")
- [Skills Limitations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.workcom_skills_limitations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Skills and endorsements have special behaviors and limitations.")