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description: Advisors create person competencies to understand each student's starting point, enabling more personalized guidance and support. Students can self-enroll for these competencies through the portal. When a student enrolls for an involvement group through the portal, the competencies related to the involvement group are shown. Students can then add these as interested or acquired competencies. Students can also create their own person competencies through the portal.
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# Create Person Competencies

Advisors create person competencies to understand each student's starting point, enabling more personalized guidance and support. Students can self-enroll for these competencies through the portal. When a student enrolls for an involvement group through the portal, the competencies related to the involvement group are shown. Students can then add these as interested or acquired competencies. Students can also create their own person competencies through the portal.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small " summary="Required Editions"><caption>Required Editions</caption> <colgroup><col style="width:100%"></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with Education Cloud</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Before you begin:

- [Set Up Your Org for Career Planning and Life Goals](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_set_up_org_for_career_planning_and_life_goals.htm&language=en_US)
- Define values for the Proficiency Level and Verification Status picklists in the Person Competency object using the Object Manager. By default, these picklists have no values.

1. From the App Launcher, find and select **Person Competencies**.
2. Click **New**.
3. Select the person's level of proficiency in the competency.
4. Select whether the person associated with the competency is an account or a contact and then select a corresponding value.
5. Select the status of the competency's verification for the person.
6. Select dates when the competency is effective and is no longer effective for the person.
7. Select the competency.
8. Select the stage of the person's competency.
9. Save your changes.