Overview of Skills in Viva

Skills in Viva is an AI-powered service in the Microsoft Viva Suite that delivers personalized skills-based experiences throughout supported Microsoft 365 and Viva applications for employees, business leaders, and HR.

It uses data from the Microsoft Graph and skills from the LinkedIn Skills Graph to predict a user’s skills and offer tailored skill suggestions, while providing you with a better understanding of your organization’s current workforce skills distribution. Learn more about Skills in Viva.

Future releases plan to include other signals, like expertise in Viva Topics and data from human capital management systems.

If you’d like to learn more or apply for the Skills in Viva preview, contact your Microsoft representative.

Prerequisites

To help ensure a productive preview that enables Skills in Viva to meet and exceed your company's goals, the following are the requirements for private preview participation:

1. Private preview must be deployed on a production tenant where users are spending at least 80% of their time on emails, documents, and other Microsoft 365 and Viva applications.

2. More than 100 end users who are licensed for either Viva Suite or Viva Learning.

3. End users included in the Skills preview program have Viva Learning deployed and available for use.

Note

• Private preview is available only in the English language. The default language for Viva Learning must also be English for this preview
• All users in your tenant will lose “Interests” they have selected in Viva Learning when you enable skills. This action is not reversible.

Admin roles

The following roles and permissions are required to set up Skills in Viva. Review the documentation for assigning roles

Roles	Permissions
Microsoft 365 Global Administrator	Microsoft 365 Global Administrator has global access to most management features and data across Microsoft online services. For Skills in Viva, the Microsoft 365 Global Administrator can configure and manage your organization’s skills library related settings from the Microsoft 365 admin center.
Knowledge Administrator	The Knowledge Administrator needs to be assigned by the Microsoft 365 Global Administrator or the Privileged Role Administrator. The Knowledge Administrator can configure and your organization’s skills library and related settings from the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Sharing and Management of Skills Data

See Set up Skills in Viva and Manage your skills library for available admin controls for sharing and management of Skills data.

Note

When individual users confirm skills in their skills experience available at Skills in Viva (cloud.microsoft), those skills will be visible to people in your organization when they use upcoming skills-related experiences in Microsoft 365, such as the profile card and other Microsoft Viva products.

Next steps

Set up Skills in Viva

Manage your skills library