Skills Manager
The new and improved Skills Manager lets you create skills related to your marketplace and allows members to opt-in to their areas of expertise quickly. The goal for skills in ILance is to let a user refine his or her abilities quickly so that buyers and other visitors can connect easily with providers that match the expertise required.
Skills are connected to the advanced search engine in ILance making this a breeze when you have thousands of skilled users in your system and buyers are searching for providers based on skills matching.
This was designed on the basis that if you have a Category called "Programming" that doesn't mean everyone knows PHP or ASP. But in previous versions of ILance when Programming Category was selected users saw thousands of results. This skills component lets users narrow down their search making it extremely easy to group providers on your marketplace. In this example, a provider is renewing his Skills and/or updating his profile.
Note about Skills: You as the admin can limit the amount of "skills" a provider may have at any given time. Some people like to think they are the Jack of all trades but are usually the master of none. In that case, there is a setting you can enable to limit the amount of "skills" a single user can hold:
