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How to edit a job family

Applies to: all SkillsTrust platform users

You can edit a job family to update its name or description, for example when your job architecture changes or you want to align a family with your own naming.

Solution overview

To edit a job family, go to the Job Families tab, open the family you want to change, update its details, then save.

  1. Select Job Families under the Job Architecture section in the left-hand menu.


  2. Find the family you want to change and open it by clicking the family.


  3. Click Edit in the top right an update the family name and/or description.


  4. Click Save at the bottom to apply the changes and leave edit mode.

Note: editing a family updates it for every job assigned to that family. To move a single job into a different family, see How to edit the job family of a job.

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